Child Earth Day Poems

There is a story in the wind
Of Mother Nature's son
And her retribution 
For the mad path that he'd begun.

Of all her creatures big and small,
Just...

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Climate Change Haiku
by Michael R. Burch

late November:
climate skeptics scoff
but the geese no longer migrate.



The King of Beasts in the Museum of the Extinct
by Michael R....

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The drunk

A thick plastic curtain of the type used in warehouses he could not see through
to other than shadowy figures moving around he knew he...

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My Globe

Call all to save 
Before late thou it
Collect everyone...

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 Conflagration 
in the void,
churning, 
turning,
an ebullient life.

Gaia boils
with frustration,
self-actualization
on a flaming scale;
a Deva enflamed,
still destruction’s
curtailed.

Name nailed
in the cosmos,
she prevails;
light years
dare not erase
her sacred face.

God’s...

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Yellow is the color that attracts the eye
Yellow is the color that lights up the sky
Yellow is the feeling of warmth against your skin
Yellow is...

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A man was given place to own for his offspring
Darkness descended on the knowledge he got
A generation gave up on the precious gift of life
Man...

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A Commentary on

"A Note on the [Patriarchal-Colonizing] Treatment
of Plant Names"
by Robin Wall Kimmerer, p. 385
BRAIDING SWEETGRASS:
INDIGENOUS WISDOM,
SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE,
AND THE [SACRED] TEACHINGS
OF PLANTS

I too often accept
with...

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"A gift is different from something you buy, possessed of meaning outside its material boundaries. You never dishonor the gift." Robin Wall Kimmerer

A social gift,
a...

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Long before sun light
was born from starkness

Long before Earth's dawn
broiled unsteady hot star fire

Long before She filled
Her scarlet mind
with Yang's high hills,
time was this love

This...

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Where do you think that wood's coming from?
The Earth.
Where do you think your metal grows?

Where do you think those things owned are
The Earth;
and it shows!

Hold...

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The Wish

I dream of sleeping in a bed of rose petals like an Indian potentate 
who waits for his favourite concubine to come to join...

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The orchard

It was a beautiful apple tree with low hanging fruit
shaped by a gardener whose parents had been Jehovah witnesses 
(His parents didn´t believe in...

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These are prophetic poems and apocalyptic poems about the earth, climate change, global warming, extinction events, and mankind's role on an endangered world ...



Polish
by Michael...

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She cries for her children,
her body sick and spent,
poisoned by her own.
Disconnection breeds ignorance;
sever the umbilical,
a disconnected cable brings on malfunction;
a child taken from its...

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