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Climate Poems - Poems about Climate

The First To Drown
The Earth isn't dying—no, she's screaming, a sound you've stopped hearing. she cried when girls walked miles for rusted, tainted water, when ancient forests become forgotten, ash–filled pyres, no worn map ever dared to mark. In my homeland, we don't fear the tempest's furious might.  We fear the silence – The hollow echo of empty, cracked wells,  the desolate stretch of barren,...

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Categories: climate, imagery, inspirational, meaningful, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member CLIMATE CHANGE
Our greenhouse gases pour and pour And now we see the latest score. Something’s gone wrong with atmosphere As rising temperatures we fear. But we’re clever and we’ll fix it It will not drop us in the s--t. So still we dump more see-o-two That disappears into the blue. Carbon we keep on burning it Because it brings...

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Categories: climate, environment,
Form: Rhyme



FIRE
River makes its final clunk Between Hills Rolling boulders like turtle shells Empty of their mouths and hearts River bent Flailing legs and neck No longer reflects The sun and moon From water’s absence down its back. Turns her terrible brittle head From me Teeth gnashing on the spools of willow To her memory When mud was forest Footsteps Croaking with frogs and dazzled with dragonflies Ringed in a halo of cold...

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Categories: climate, anxiety, betrayal, conflict, corruption,
Form: Free verse
You'll get Yours -- Tooth for Tooth
12 when I wrote this, from the perspective of a mushroom. My gills grasping at air, but the grass is not too far; My scales glimmering stupidly to shine through watered tar. And in the gaseous tarmac world, I shine here far too bright, And oh, the air, too stale if for my gills to get it right. I long...

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Categories: climate, bible, environment, nature, planet,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Here is wisdom'
Revelations ch eleven verse eighteen.' (When I was a child I acted like a child and thought as a child..? Yet now i am Grown i must put away the things of childhood ' this last Parable talks about me as a person..For I did once think That the ' climate change ideaology' had merit.' And God Was part of...

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Categories: climate, change, education, endurance,
Form: Didactic



Climate Crisis
Earth's fever rising, Melting ice, a silent tear, Future starts to drown. ©bfa042325 ...

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Categories: climate, nature,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member PREPARE FOR A DELUGE
PREPARE FOR A DELUGE take a look debris tracking TORNADO WATCH/WARNING signs of rotation how are things looking? FLASH FLOOD WARNING cloud to ground lightning strikes when thunder roars, go indoors TRACKING SEVERE STORMS Severe Weather Enhanced Current power outages FUTURECAST all hands on deck trees uprooted INCIDENT: SERIOUS CRASH disabled vehicle not out of the woods yet TRAFFIC: LIVE Raise Highway Maximum Speed Limit you mean business STORM LEAVE DAMAGE BEHIND IT she/he’s having a moment 24/7...

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Categories: climate, dark, society, storm, weather,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Climate Change Permutations
Seasons the Earth's rotations the Earth's revolution Seasons the full moon the half and crest moon the moon's revolution. Industrial revolution man's achievement Industrial revolution Earth's doom Industrial revolution Man's demise Man's gain, Oxygen's loss Environment's loss ...

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Categories: climate, death, earth, environment, natural
Form: Ballad
Climate Change
The Earth is speaking soft and low, In melting ice and winds that blow. The fragile world, we watch it break, With every storm and every quake. The oceans rise,the forests thin, A quiet battle deep within. The rain that falls, the tides complain, Are lessons hard for us to learn? The rivers dry, the mountains mourn, As nature's heart is bruised and worn. But...

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Categories: climate, 11th grade, change, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Reconnection
Reconnection I want to be part of nature. I want my flesh to turn into a tree. I want the fresh oxygen to flow into my lungs. I want to grow out of my fingers and toes. I want my only scars to be from last year’s leaves. I want to change from bright hues to calm tones To symbolize...

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Categories: climate, conflict, earth, growth, mental
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Eidolon, Penumbra
Everything is normal so not much to sing or say. No summer thunderstorm, the snow was magical only for an hour. Old men aren’t removing women’s panties with removable dentures. A belly laugh now and then, an empty belly’s holy. With simple joy mortals may forget to fear their deaths. Simply put, we do not survive. But what an adventure! I heard an archangel cry Don’t...

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Categories: climate, adventure, angel, change, city,
Form: Free verse
Above and the beauty we make ugly
Above is the place I wish to race Above is the face I wish to grace Where  people dreams age And where thunderstorms  rage The wildest  dreams take courage And where you  feel the stars stage Above is the Term That we use when success has arms The word that manifest richness alarm Reminder of bellow and its germ Reminder of the bare...

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Categories: climate, 12th grade, adventure, beautiful,
Form: Epic
LA is on fire and I’m a sitting duck
My skin crawls as I watch a hand, disembodied, reach yet again into the Tollhouse bag. Bright, artificial yellow. It burns my eyes. Countless chocolate chips are shoveled down my gullet as if crumbs to a wretched, starving creature. I’m only jarred out of my sinful haze by catching si th r of my reflection. That face staring back at me -...

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Categories: climate, anger, corruption, environment, hate,
Form: Free verse
The night they know is bright as day
There’s children growing up that believe the stars sound like crickets chirping, for their only exposure to these sources of wonder are through over-exposure to blue light and radio waves and soundtracks overlaying simulations. The night they know is bright as day, lit by “satellite internet constellations” or fogged out by the price of progress. They don’t understand what it is to stare upwards and...

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Categories: climate, anger, children, earth, environment,
Form: Free verse
Climate Unchanged
Wind lashed fronds whip a neck twisting air. Florida bleeds green. A large woman in a rainbow muumuu, a toy poodle pushed tightly into her folds wades into the storm determined to bring a hurricane to heel. The land has now flooded high enough to expose alligator snouts. The Cajun navy hoists its Jolly Roger, golf carts are boarded, elderly men in white and tartan...

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Categories: climate, poetry,
Form: Free verse

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