Best Smog Poems

northern white clouds rise
each morning, any weather--
sky of morning smog


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Smog
Nebulous malignancy
Choking the city
Threatening residence; foul fugitive
Fog...

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mountains sip coffee
from the cup of Thunderbird 
smell of gasoline

smog










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Days of Smog

Do you remember the days of Smog,
Smoke filled Novembers in Fog.
Today you would not believe,
A time when we could not breathe.

Thick Air, not fit for Man Nor Dog....

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The atrocity of greed has never reached so high;
The morality of man has never plunged so low.

For who but greed-fueled man would commit such an act,
forcing vanguards to poison what they were born to protect?

Across the sea, the souls of trees weep;
Into our lungs, the...

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. . . star-lit dewdrops glow

                           thick, toxic, black puffs billow

smothering smog,  go . . ....

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Can we even call the s*** we breathe air?
The thick and poisonous smog
Fills your lungs
Fresh air is a precious treasure
For the world now
Oxygen: a rare encounter
In the city
Children coughing when they inhale,
Pollution and smoke enter your nose,
Fills your chest, and then your blood
And you cough...

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suffocating,
sooty smoke
swirls silent,
serpentine;

coils around,
hisses above
crude contours
of blackened
smokestacks;

strangles the air,
dims morning light,
darkens ashen fog:
toxic smog....

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Serpentine,

   sooty smoke floats,
      swirls slowly above
         shadowed contours 
            of city smokestacks,
      ...

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Inhabitants are real
Facing great threats
Weighing on mother earth's future
Its effects and consequences
Even better halt it
Consume more, always more

The detriment of nature
Destroyed as an easy option 
The soil is poisoned
Lands are sliding
Rain forests are reduced 
Drastic effects for dims
Contagion of air

Exhaust fumes from arrogant holes
The burning...

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When I was a teenager
Nothing seemed to be fair
So I rebelled
And I dyed my hair

It was as black as a moonless Halloween night
Which echoed my spirit to my poor parents fright

My days spun listlessly in an endless slog
My core boiled and bubbled up
infected soup of...

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The World Is Healing From Coronavirus


We hide smiles behind the facemask
In cold wind virus spread in open spaces 
A touch could turn into a snafu touch
As noise turns into silence

Mother earth is breathing
The way we look at it
It is rebuilding and helping us to retrace
The...

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Summer Haze
by Michael R. Burch

The hazy, smoke-filled skies of summer I remember well;
farewell was on my mind, and the thoughts that I can't tell
rang bells within (the din was in) my mind, and I can't say
if what we had was good or bad, or where...

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Affirmation of Love
David J Walker

Learning to say I love you
In one of the languages that
We both think we understand 
Left wondering in the after actions
If the words were weaker reflections
Left hanging heavy in the air like smog
I am the one left smugly in the fog
Of...

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Fear is an all-consuming fog 
Consuming shining rays of hope and light 
Eyes trapped shut in this ash-filled smog 
Voices of mania are heard at night 
From the kingdom of media in fright   
Some go to the beasts to be prey 
Wrapped in...

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