There, where it has led us,
Deforestation,
Such high temperatures,
That you can die in your own house,
Temperatures, so high,
May the rivers of Africa perish,
There, where it has led us,
Cities that are thirsty,
Endangered elephants,
An overpopulated world,
Slowly warming oceans,
who cover themselves with jellyfish,
That’s where it got us,
Forests that are fading,
All the scourges of ancient Egypt,
At the gates of Europe,
The pink flamingos soon on the Seine,
The deserts will they replace the arboreal plains,
Will the planet survive?
When we cut down trees,
Their sobs raise a tsunami;
We must pay for it.
Wilted flowers
Wilted flowers lie in empty fields
Days pass as flies scour,
Leaving the decomposing ideas to be eaten.
The sun flickers as each minute weans by
An empty shell of you left in bloody waters.
A quiet silence crowding the space your words claimed.
The once blooming pedals, scorned by your nectar.
Craving the burn you bring into my veins; no longer able to be muzzled
A type of silent desire for chaos and destruction.
A desire for deforestation.
What started as weeds being plucked,
Turned to mowing down rose bushes.
Muddy boots left on waxed floors,
Destruction on the original wood grain that was once admired by generations.
Floors handcrafted from trees outside of what I wanted to call home.
Someplace silence was peace and peace was expected rather than craved.
Pruned roses left puddles of milkweed
Each droplet going sour the second it fell,
The bitter taste of cyanide leaked out of your pores into its water supply.
Empty plots. Pesticides. Ripped roots.
walking down the street
I heard hundreds of tweets
So harmonious coming from that tree
As if birds were singing just for me
Now I talk to them everyday
Telling them the happening
And Listening to what they say
Then,one day when I was away
Men came by to take
little birdies home out of the way
All the little birdies pleaded
But their heart never bleeded
Recklessly they cut the tree
killing hundreds of birdies
Now no more tweets in atmos left
Just Silence came and never left
Slow to restore
Nature's beautification
Speed to destroy.
Deforestation
Sore cosmos, maimed nature
Silently pouring irate invective
On myopic mortals
Without a lamp or vista
Beauty lost to the beast
Pristine lands, barren grounds
Green fields, brown meadows
Nature mislay, love lost
Man's gain, nature's pain
Buy the forest, sell it not
The Owl mourns its lost cottage
The Lion roars in disillusion
At the sight of its looted Kingdom
Elephants trumpet in hunger and anger
Loud wails echo in the animal kingdom
As humanity hails new conquest
Snow-covered oceans thawing
Seals, sore memories for Bears
The forest shaved bald
As the torrents become bold
Temperature soaring
Men rejoicing
In cathedrals without hues.
From Echoes from the Savannah © Makinde Adebayo Adeniyi, 2024
stripped forest stands bald
cacti buds hold their heads high ---
restless vezhambals
N.B:
In Kerala Vezhambal bird suggests the endless waiting for rain
Maybe a simulation only
Tsunami tells us the waves
Will eventually roar storeys high
The endless quarrying tells us
One day the mountain rocks start rolling
The flood tells us the rivers
Will penetrate into the cities like roads
Pollution makes the rivers feed on colours
Acid rain sheds the leaves bald
Deforestation makes the forests thin
And animals start shifting
Radioactive waste makes the fishes commit suicide collectively
Workloads makes people
Become pressured cans with stony faces
The skyscrapers poke into heaven Resulting in a bigger hole in the ozone layer
The endless oil mines poke into hell
Resulting in volcano eruptions
Internal wars and boundary wars are Only signs of men struggling
To survive the pre-doomsday
Mammals cried on the domestic site.
They were pursued by homeless shelters.
A calamitous plan destroyed the primate.
Declaring war creeped on mining wheelers.
Deforestation triggered ruins.
They left a ministerial threat.
Incendiary propaganda mouthed great.
The rules crawled havoc with it.
State gave them a baleful coat.
Nocent chemical found it.
Deforestation destruction
causes death and devastation
plus ignorance negationist
inhumanity activist
absurd vile criminal action
The trees cut from the forest
are used in building houses
as downpour from the mountain
brings flood to the town.
We Have Only Ourselves To Blame
The way we live now seems barely the same,
Enduring one ecological disaster after another.
It’s obvious we have only ourselves to blame
For changing the climate and the weather.
Enduring one ecological disaster after another:
Rampant forest fires, pollution, desertification.
For changing the climate and the weather -
Too much industrialization and deforestation!
Rampant forest fires, pollution, desertification…
Species extinction from loss of natural habitats;
Too much industrialization and deforestation!
We’re destroying everything, everywhere, like spoiled brats.
Species extinction from loss of natural habitats???
It’s obvious we have only ourselves to blame!
We’re destroying everything, everywhere, like spoiled brats.
The way we live now seems barely the same.
Sri Lankan Elephants are listed as, endangered
and are the largest and darkest, of the Asian elephants
Herds have nursing units, with lactating females and young
and they have juvenile units, containing females and juveniles
Sri Lankan Elephants, are been pushed into smaller areas
because of deforestation, that disturbs their migrating routes
Human-elephant conflicts, results in human and elephant deaths
because the humans need of greed, is only for human grassroots
Malayan Tigers are listed as, critically endangered
and they used to be known, as Indochinese Tigers
They live is in the Malay Peninsula, of Thailand
in their habitat of forests, grasslands and wetlands
They have threats of poaching, for the illegal black markets
as China will not put ban, on the use of tiger parts
and deforestation for development, for the human ferrets
to construct roads, logging and agriculture, just breaks many hearts
Habitat destruction, has forced tigers into human territory
and there have been many Tiger killings, with human dissention
and tigers kill humans and livestock, because they are predatory
as their lives are desperate, to not end up with extinction
South China Tigers are, critically endangered
and are considered to be, “functionally extinct
They have not been seen, for some 25 years
only seen in zoos, with all those human steers
Their home is in forests, of south east China
and they live close to, human provincial territory
and there has been, an uplifted ban from China
for use of Tiger parts, for the human factory
Their natural habitat, is highly fragmented
and not large enough, to sustain their population
as it is humans, who have completely managed
to destroy their home, with human deforestation
China has 6,500 Tigers, in Tiger farms
for the now, legal trade of Tiger parts
and there are only 3,900, left in the wild
and those in zoos, are just made mild
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