Best Icecaps Poems
Dear Humanity:
You know I love you, right?
Stop calling me Mother Nature!
I hate that!
Genderless am I…
Oh, yeah, I get the ‘bring life forth’ bit,
creator of new life, pregnant with your desire
…yada, yada, yada,
my womb is your hope,
my anger your demise.
You have dominion over me?
Get over yourself!
Not the life-force, I wobble,
buoy in a black sea,
world in flux.
Some of your tribes cajole me
with Songs of the Good Earth,
their rhythms heal my rivers and plains,
my blue veins, renewing rains;
good vibrations make mountains grow.
Others try to dominate me,
defile, desecrate and destroy me.
Written in the Book they say,
patriarchal sons of kings.
Climate change deniers my enemies.
Poor, dear, naïve humanity,
my icecaps are melting, oceans swell,
water will consume the land.
My extremes test your resolve.
I can live without you,
is the opposite true?
Homeostasis, my cycles of life,
the seasons my command.
Are you so balanced?
Don’t fight against gravity,
there is no escape.
Eagles soar and lions roar,
your footprints on the shore,
all these shall pass away.
So if you seek immortality
then keep your home sacred.
Love all of me,
every rock is my child,
every grain of sand a seed,
everything you do to these,
you do to me.
I am Gaia. I am home.
Prayer for the Summer Solstice 2017
Think, children: what will you tell
your grandchildren when they ask
about Earth--once bursting green
and red and yellow with blossoms
everywhere, and bushes serene
in shadows of lime-colored trees,
with bird songs filling the air?
I hope you'll remember turquoise seas
brimming with life, color dancing on
water, boats with white sails, beaches,
seagulls, sandpipers, whales. Men fishing
creeks, children's splashing feet, sitting
beneath Summer's lush leaves,
making toy boats made of paper.
I know you'll recall purple mountains so tall,
snow-crested peaks of lilac at eveningfall;
inhaling perfumed blossoms and wonder
of pines, you could hear aspens whispering,
jays poking fun, noisy creeks in their run,
deer peeking quickly behind gentle oaks,
a magical potpourri for the mind.
Grandchildren will smile as you gaze out
the window, attempting to find memories
of Earth as it was long ago, before losing
our way in pollution's crazed mind. But now
all she can find: industries' emissions, urban pall,
oceans clogged, forests burned, icecaps gone,
plastics, dust, muck, sun going blind...
toy boats made of paper, bird so.......
forgotten now
My nightmare is so tangible...so vividly I dream,
The dream, it feels so true to me...reality it seems.
Exhaust and smoke are all I breathe...the air is full of smog...
The job I do is thankless toil, but I work it like a dog.
There's mercury in the fish I eat...there're toxins in my food...
And drugs, they are a constant scourge...myriads for every mood.
Bipolar is my government...a house divided 'tis...
And corporations drive both sides...in the pockets of "Big Biz".
The icecaps, they are melting...the sea is rising, too.
Pandas, condors, polar bears -- empty cages at the zoo.
My money ne'er seems quite enough...I'm always out of cash...
My freedom fled when I wed my bride...(live I under the lash).
"Entertainment"? Reality TV...maybe some vampire shows...
Or idjits becoming household names for being beachfront "ho's".
People clamor "climate change" from the seats of S.U.V.'s,
And bitter news on the honey front...what's killing all the bees?
Politicians spending more...we go deeper in the red.
Opinions dressed as "news" abound...is journalism dead?
Cell phones are ubiquitous...conversation's endangered now...
And "Kardashians" are famous girls..but who knows why or how?
How strange my twisted psyche is t'make real what must be fake...
Now'f only I could find some way to get myself to wake.
Written on November 27th, 2012
By Daniel Beus (Rebel Sun)
Planet Mars watches over us like angel at night
With Venus, the star that shines so bright
It’s one of our cosmos’ fascinating sights
A red planet inviting us on its glowing light.
As I gaze its beauty and wonder up afar
I recall its myth, the Roman God of war
Its name came from God of War, Ares
As it was told in many stories for thousand of years.
Scientists were observing it since ancient times
Its common features on earth were visible signs
‘Though its air could be poisonous to every human
Once in every 678 days, it orbits around the sun
A space probe was sent to gather more information
‘Til fossils found on rocks in small life form
There could be life in Mars billion years ago
That’s what they believe; yet,we don’t know.
Mountains, icecaps and riverbed-like were found
With dust storms that last for months
But everything in there is still dormant
Oh, Mars will you revive to take us when our earth is gone?
Our mother earth is now getting older
I know, you two are friends, so close to each other
Do you ever know the kismet of your partner?
Or, you two take turns in bearing lives in the universe?
July 10, 2015 9.03pm
Fourth Place
Contest: Subject Mars
Judged: 7/26/2015
Sponsor: Poet Joe Maverick
Mankind, you're so proud and tall
You really think you know it all
And once you had discovered fire
to such great heights you did aspire
Once, gladly, of myself I gave
but now your plan is to enslave
Do you think it is your right
to consign whole species to the night
You rob the forests of their trees
and think you can do as you please
Disfigure me in your quest for oil
and with your wastes, my seas despoil
My rivers now flow red as blood
choked and dying with your crud
I've pleaded, but to no avail
as you wiped out the mighty whale
My atmosphere is choked with fumes
just to heat your fancy rooms
Radiation blights the ground
Everywhere your footprint's found
Pesticides pollute your crops
Acids taint the pure raindrops
My icecaps melt with global warming
A hole in the ozone layer is forming
I am your home, your ONLY home
Amongst the stars you'll never roam
Will you then, your home destroy
with these methods you employ?
You care not for this pollution
What then, mankind, is the solution
Should I let you on Earth remain
or wipe you out and start again
Mankind take heed you have been warned
So far my warnings have been scorned
One day soon you'll feel my rage
I'll knock you back to the stone age
With earthquakes I'll destroy a city
Too late then to ask for pity
With fire and storm and tidal wave
I'll consign you to the grave
What you've done make's no sense
Now I demand much recompense
Mankind, betrayer, of you I tire
Heed my words ... my name is Gaia
Ted Hughes warned of telegraph wires
and their tones that empty human bones
In this more modern digital age
I wonder too, through wired rage
Whether the internet, full of trolls and ****
Can perhaps evolve beyond its scorn
And become the tool for improving life,
Sharing ideas, battling strife
As our brains melt, and the icecaps too
It seems, surely the best thing to do
Is to ditch the trolls into the sea,
Re-wire, connect and find the key
Use it to solve the problems ahead
With enlightenment, not wired dread.
In my present absence
I’m trying to remember where I misplaced the key
To unlock the door to my own existence
I rise with the smelting icecaps
Only to come crashing down with the rising levels of pollution
So I’m stuck in my red thinking cap
Things that make my radiator boil!
We’re driving to the end of the world, faster and faster?
With all that exhausts this oil
And you thrive on cancer...
You’re what you eat, what you smoke and as for the drink,
I won’t interfere with your larger
Am I just a filter...?
Of ignorance and misinformation...a consumer of advertisements?
Then only fit for litter
So there’s no avoiding this junk
It’s in the air, the water and every street pole we pass
And I’m just an ignorant punk
I was relaxing in the park
And I witnessed hands exchange contraband on the merry-go-round
Our own children doing something so dark
For all my jogging I breathe in lead
Poisoning my suburban home - now part of the inner city decay, how?
‘cause that’s the BS I’m fed
01-08-2015
Thabang Jan Ngoma
Sponsor: Roy Jerden
Contest Name: Everyone Poops
an inner conflict dust brew
within this scribe, who offers ye to chew
(like sweet treats metaphorically) thee do
tee incumbent, when Doomsday clock
counts down minutes few
according Al Gore rhythm
unstoppably ticking,
when life gets turned to global goo
tenderized viz Doctor Zeus
if not Horton Hears Hoo
then most definitely The Lorax
(couching urgent morals underscored
by satellite photographs
showing melting icecaps or igloos,
which planetary sos, sans in extremis
requires joint effort of Gentile and Jew,
plus every other sectarian credo,
dogma, ethos...knew
clear family, and whatnot
to become linkedin with Linda Loo
yes, we moost not forget
Old McDonald with his moo
moo there bovine creatures
agedly hobbling along, or new
lee born, cuz juiced one day
per three hundred and sixty five
(six with leap year -
to appease ghost oh Rachel Carson
imagine dragons festooned leotard
with brand name Oroblu)
or poor ole Whinny The Pooh
eternally stuck in Rabbit's
hole sum Hutch as a queue
doth loosely form dreaming up and rue
mien hating solution
(burning the midnight oil) true
lee trying to remedy plight
of said bear character,
perhaps unstated message being woo
king in tandem solutions to resolve
wretched condition of world wide web
possible by bridging differences
between me and you, and you, and you...
Regardless of what some folks are saying
The weather is changing, climate’s askew
Major storms threaten atypical places,
Is there nothing at all we can do?
Let’s begin by developing a new respect
For this planet all of us call our home,
Consider cutting back on fossil fuels
Using fewer plastics, learning to defoam.
We can resolve to reduce pollution
Be more careful with disposable waste,
Recycling is an excellent practice
We should all begin doing it, posthaste.
The glaciers and icecaps are rapidly melting
We are destroying the vital ozone layer,
And it appears a time is quickly coming
When all of us won’t have a single prayer.
In truth, some will never be believers
They will, in ignorance, never play a part,
So, it seems to me rather obvious
We must hurry up and get a head start.
Let’s face it, global warming is upon us,
The weather is changing, climate’s askew
But, believe me, when I hasten to say
There’s plenty to slow it, we surely can do.
She comes down near my head daily
releasing sharp spears on it precisely
I shout for mercy but she listens not
without compassion she tortures me
Born brown angry Sun darkened me
the blood veins are hidden beneath
my eyes refuse to see precious world
just because of actions of angry Sun
I live in Africa where the Sun is angry
and the people have also become angry
the hair in anger has refused to grow long
but the angry Sun never misses to rise
Angry Sun, angry Sun give me a break
I also want to enjoy this earthly Africa
migrate angry Sun, migrate to North Pole
find your way for a season to South Pole
The icecap is a sleepy giant in the Poles
go to Arctic and conquer icecaps of ancient
go to Antarctica and spear her heart fatally
as for me in Africa enough is enough
Brass windchimes
ring melodic time
backed up
and down,
back
and forth
by boisterous breeze voices
blowing somewhat more silent choices
below
Before benighted rejoice
reprise to rise
and fall
wounded fail
yet again
Melodious inside intentions
to ring true
love's restoring stories
of local justice circling
dynamic spirals inside
looking resounding out
virally
conspiratorially
anticipating healthier life within
Mother's sensual gusts
Overpowering peaceful chimes
global resting
arresting rhymes
with powerful enculturing space
enlightened green spring out times
up happy,
healthy
Driven by bountiful breeze
and this northbound tidal
grey-blue iconic river
flowing drifts back
and surging forth,
Downstream
yet again back up
in-between
indigenous natured out
spirits in
Chiming outside colonizing industrial windows
noticing
re-connecting stressful winds
and anxious tides
of not so well chimed
compassionate green change
loudly rang
While icecaps,
empowering South
and enlightening North,
silently
soundlessly
melt integrity's just right divine
dividing humane left
Eastern Earth greets Western Sun
chiming resonant hospitality
of eco/theo-logical nurturers
nourishing brass rounds
of resighted
respited
holy sounds.
It ran along the backbone like a stoney ripple plunged
Darker in the deep of hearty's forgotten tarn
How high, how high did that water rise?
To be carried off by conduits, banked by its fall
Oh Europe it lays waiting, it's crumbled castles ungunned
Docked are the hopes of ships which once followed each sun
That sky, that sky was thick then with lies
That was years ago honey, it's light-years away still
Broken hearted, broken hearts mend
Get the better of them all
You see, warm are the icecaps north of your blind wanderings
Give a sigh to them I dare, they'll groan back a cheer
God knows, Darwin knows that ain't a shame
And mischief looks out a window, the Sun in at you
Hum at a guess that the terrors of dreaming are smiling
Happily defeated and receding to clear
Those skies, those skies awaiting your name
Just swing the propeller, above weather, it's all blue
Whole hearted, whole hearted my friend
Get the better of them all...
past blame unresolved
present account self absolves
~ future waives resolve
23/12/2020
By David Kavanagh
Way before God created heaven and earth.
Before Adam and Eve were conceived from dirt.
Before flowers knew how to bloom, or the birds knew how to fly.
Before fish knew how to swim, or the stars adorned the sky.
Before we could discern the difference in night and day.
Before the world turned on an axis, and the sun could slide away.
Before we made our own decisions, and our strings were cut loose.
Before i knew i loved you, i knew i loved you!
So until the sun turns red and bleeds out the sky.
And the land becomes barren, and everything dies.
Until the world stands still, and time is reversed.
And the end of time as we know it's rehearsed.
Until the equator freezes, and the icecaps melt.
And the universe implodes and swallows itself.
Until we're tested by situations of for worse or for better.
Before the beginning and after the end, i'll love you forever!
Winters are growing colder,
Global warming is a threat,
Polar icecaps are melting,
Causing scientists to fret.
Hurricanes and earthquakes,
Tornadoes, floods and fires,
These disasters are more frequent,
Every year becomes more dire.
The economy is broken,
Accusations are being flung,
Corruption is running rampant,
And the trouble's just begun.
Jobs are being downsized,
Budgets are being slashed.
The hungry and the homeless
Are increasing mighty fast.
There are wars in many nations,
World peace an elusive dream.
All the hatred and the violence,
Is enough to make you scream.
People hating people,
For the color of their skin.
Others killed and tortured,
For the faith they have within.
Chat rooms on the Internet,
Are luring children into harm.
The sex and violence on TV,
Should signal an alarm.
Gangs and drive-by shootings,
Drugs and prostitution,
Isn't it time we cried "ENOUGH"!
Isn't it time for a solution?
The Bible has the answers,
For what we need to do,
To stop this devastation ,
Our world is going through.
God's Word tells us that there is hope,
If we'll turn to Him and pray.
But first we must forsake our sin,
And repent without delay!
And if we truly turn away,
From the wickedness we've sown,
God will hear and answer us,
And mercy will be shown.
He'll forgive us for our many sins,
He'll heal and restore our land.
Once again He'll be our God,
And in His love we'll stand.
O God from whom all blessings flow,
Have mercy on us we pray.
Deliver us from the enemy's hand.
Lead us in Your righteous way.