climate change
...
what comes tomorrow
leaves some elements of doubt
earths rain wind and fire
seems to dominate the skies
save for our eternal light
arctics melting ice
overflowin...
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Categories:
carbon dioxide, fire, rain, sun, weather,
Form: Tanka
Holy Diver
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Disoriented and departed from passing terra forma,
I sink further into the Sea of Tranquility.
As corroded chains of my existence dissipate,
What once tethered my soul to Gaia's gifts
Drift...
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Categories:
carbon dioxide, deep, gothic, poetry, solitude,
Form: Free verse
photosynthesis
...wind dancers gather
sunlight, carbon dioxide,
photosynthesize
...
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Categories:
carbon dioxide, nature,
Form: Haiku
The Eternal Question: God, No God, Maybe God
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As I lay upon a grassy bald in the Great Smoky Mountains on a clear August night, I gaze at the stars and muse about my Creator, the source of all dynamic energy. A tear forms in my eye as I contem...
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Categories:
carbon dioxide, appreciation, beauty, creation,
Form: Haibun
December, daughter of winter, descends with a silence that invades my soul
...December, daughter of winter, descends with a silence that invades my soul,
Hatred crept slowly and surely into the marrow of my bones, poisoning them,
My breaths release blue beads of carbon dioxi...
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Categories:
carbon dioxide, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Trauma and Addiction go hand in hand
...Addiction is the compensation for something lost in childhood. You are not addicted to the substance or the thing, but it's a release from the trauma that you compensated with the substance and the a...
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Categories:
carbon dioxide, addiction,
Form: Rhyme
A Conifer
...A Conifer
A
Blue Spruce
Born from a cone
Green leaves shaped like needles
Inhale deep draughts carb...
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Categories:
carbon dioxide, nature,
Form: Shape
Aliens! I shouted above the roar of the blaze
..."Aliens!" I shouted above the roar of the blaze.
Please rescue us from this godforsaken place
veritable hellscape, where angels fear ingress.
Just then an unexpected pleasant distraction
woke...
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Categories:
carbon dioxide, 12th grade, america, bereavement,
Form: Free verse
Argon
...Argon
Argon hates it when
carbon dioxide broadcasts its
burps records on
KW24.
...
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Categories:
carbon dioxide, humor,
Form: Free verse
Happy two thousand twenty fourth birthday Autumn September twenty second
...Happy two thousand twenty fourth birthday Autumn - September twenty second
But first etymological climatological meteorological esoterica:
The word autumn (/'??t?m/) is derived from Latin autu...
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Categories:
carbon dioxide, animal, appreciation, autumn, celebration,
Form: Free verse
It Started with a Blank Canvas
...
It all began as my wife and I were attending a
state fair. My wife had joined with a friend,
and the two of them sought their interest and
fantasies. I simply wandered about from one booth
to a...
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Categories:
carbon dioxide, art,
Form: Narrative
Concept Crunch
...Flora in its way, fauna in its way; work hand in hand.
Uniting all, keeping the health of habitats intact
Does my existence incorporate another extant?
Do I live and let live as coconuts and palm ...
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Categories:
carbon dioxide, environment, life, nature, philosophy,
Form: Sonnet
Children Need A Playground
...Children Need A Playground
*
We are without a leader
To save our Children
From a horrible fate
*
Fifty years ago
A discovery was made
And a few
Kept the world
Out of the know
*
So
Greed...
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Categories:
carbon dioxide, 12th grade, betrayal, environment,
Form: Rhyme
Get Ready
...Before the carbon dioxide, is a breath worth taking
We'd be stranded without the pointed fingers of our finest locators
But even hell frozen over would still leave me bound and shaking
You’r...
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Categories:
carbon dioxide, addiction, corruption, drug, heartbroken,
Form: Villanelle
Global Warming
...The windows are boarded up in preparation for the storm
A weather event of this intensity is becoming the norm
Global warming continues to find a way to rule the day
For the planet to survive we m...
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Categories:
carbon dioxide, planet,
Form: Rhyme
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