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Depredation Poems - Poems about Depredation

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...The affair of wee mortals
With our planet has gone awry again;
Crabby like the acrid taste of long kept palm wine.
We mask our depredation with mendacious diplomacy.
Hence this social distance be...

Categories: depredation, depression, earth, environment, society,
Form: Free verse

Whispers To Me

...Dams, mining, extraction and fracking!                     
Logging, trawling, oops this urban expansion!

Plastic, toxic sludge and fertilisers,
Industrial revolution, Mass production!
Rising p...

Categories: depredation, confusion, corruption, death, depression,
Form: Free verse

Savannah Donate Charitable Acts

...without asking for tangible receipts 
but to pollinate greensward vis a vis 
as pay forward recompense
 
many good samaritan instances 
     came my way of late, yet
hive heal stymied, how 
  ...

Categories: depredation, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme

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Ochre Dreams

...I
Grey spaces, but the day has broken
Hope rubs an eye, turns back to snooze
Clear water in mason jar hold one life
No frills, no leaves, ochre lotus intrudes ...
Hopes falling into grey sleep
...

Categories: depredation, adventure, anti bullying, appreciation,
Form: Free verse

Wonderment At Existence

...With scrunched and bushy furrowed brow
   I often ponder the precise circumstances
   that any thing 2 be born this way
   as a poker face
Tracing back lineage of self or
   arbitrary individual...

Categories: depredation, allegory, allusion, analogy, celebration,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme

Extinction

...Everything that is created one day becomes extinct with His manifestation.
For billions and millions of years forests, rivers, valleys, mountains and civilisations,
Completed a cycle, suffered a lo...

Categories: depredation, environment, god,
Form: Rhyme

There Is No Now

...The pollution is psychedelic
Hell, you could even say poetic nature
Terms of enragement
Definitely not engagement
Can suffice in describing the depredation

Fire from the skies
Burning through the sy...

Categories: depredation, dream, faith, freedom, goodbye,
Form: Free verse

Requiescat Dum Resurgat

...The province of delayed gratification
Poetry is dead.

There is now no appetite for deep reflection
In this far from limpid pool.
Abhorrent is meditation
To  the present lords of all misrule.
...

Categories: depredation, faith, imagination, loss,
Form: Rhyme

Feet, Feet That Walked Away With the Toes

...Heavy the hoods of the eyes
  that laboured the scan of horizons
Heavy the course of the thoughts
  that sat unstirred on the sill of the stare

Heavy this ancient bottomed nose
  sitting in judgment...

Categories: depredation, history, lost, lost,
Form: Ballad

Famine's Face

...I have held the child and crestfallen
been. I have seen the face of famine
its peevish and sullen glare, a face
with hollow eyes and missing smile.
Of slow and ambling gait it drags
its cloak of...

Categories: depredation, hopeworld,
Form: Prose Poetry

Misleading Beauty

...Latching deceased life
Mineral depredation
Mosses vital spark

Nathan Bane Leccese
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Categories: depredation, nature
Form: Haiku

The Mighty Oak

...From a tiny acorn buried by a squirrel
Grows a mighty oak tree to brighten up the world
An accident of nature,or part of Gods great plan
To keep this old world going despite destructive man?
All ...

Categories: depredation, devotion, life, nature,
Form: I do not know?