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Best Pollution Poems

Below are the all-time best Pollution poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of pollution poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member We Rulers of the Earth
We Rulers Of This Earth

Homo-Sapiens we call ourselves, rulers of this Earth,
   Intelligent and civilized, but what is all this worth?

We're working hard...

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Categories: pollution, angst, corruption, drug, earth,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Ordinary Man
Snow is falling and floods are flowing,
people dying and children keep crying,
but he's just an ordinary man,
sitting there watching TV.

Icebergs melting and penguins starving,
men in...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: allusion, analogy, political, pollution,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member What Have You Done
Dear humans, do you read me, I live in space,
Merely a being, sent by God, I'm all over the place.
I circle the world, live among...

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Categories: pollution, weather,
Form: Prose

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member Rinse Clear POTD
Mind – a pool, deep and arcane,
Needs to be cleared n' cleansed from time to time
In the sinuous course of life,
Pause awhile to peer into...

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Categories: introspection, pollution,
Form: Free verse
Dear Humanity:
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...

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Categories: corruption, earth, humanity, pollution,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member 'beach Buddies' Collect 'stuff' - For Contest
Twice a month on our tiny little Isle
A group of heroes go that extra mile
Wearing protective clothing they clean the beach
Removing vast amounts of rubbish...

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Categories: pollution, appreciation, beach, beauty, care,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Climate Change Is No Joke
Our problems all began with the industrial revolution
And its legacy has left us with toxic pollution.

Climate change is real and been declared a code red
And...

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Categories: earth, environment, fire, pollution,
Form: Couplet
Ode To Mother Ganga
No mere river, thou art nation’s heartbeat,
That you came from heaven may be a myth,
Not that for common good ye fell beneath,
For centuries ye lift...

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Categories: pollution, mother, river,
Form: Ode
Shell Shock
She held a seashell to her ear
But heard no soothing sea,
Just choking gasps of life caught in
An ocean of debris.

05.11.19


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Categories: environment, ocean, pollution,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Colour of My Heart
Now brown, the once-blue brook meanders down
To dams where sludge has chased beavers away
As species die, our Mother casts a frown
For Nature can’t control man...

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Categories: nature, pollution,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Earthliness
"A music group has transformed the words of this poem into a heartfelt song, it's recorded in the audio sound"

One of the radical conditions for...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pollution, analogy, appreciation, beauty, earth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Woe Is the Sea
something grabs my leg

                     ...

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Categories: ocean, pollution,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member For Shame
The inky black water sucks her in further
As she descends into the black depths of the abyss
Cloying dark swirls cover her head as soundlessly it...

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Categories: pollution, betrayal, environment, natural disasters,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member If I Ruled the World
 

If I ruled the whole wide world there's so much that I would change
I wouldn't be Mr Popular, and they'd think me somewhat strange
First...

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Categories: pollution, conflict, environment, hate, international,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Contamination
So much contamination
needs a close examination.

take a breath of radiation
or a toxic medication
select a name with aspartame
clean your car of acid rain
eat the food with...

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Categories: environment, pollution, society,
Form: Couplet

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry