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Extinct Eden

The skyline wheezes through gauze-thick breath,
its lungs ossified in scaffolded sighs,
where children etch constellations on smog,
and pigeons strut in soot-stained pride.

Dark as coal, and quieter than sleep,
the city dreams in monochrome,
its rivers choked with yesterday’s sins,
its gardens traded for silicone.
Traffic flows like veins in a dying beast,
pumping noise into the marrow of stillness.

We built this Eden out of exhaust
and liturgy of engines.
We now beg for the Adam's apple
to drop back down.

Cold, Cold Ground

The cold, so cold ground
Binding and pulling
And holding me down

Embraced by the crypt
Confined and restrained
And life’s breath stripped

Stygian inked
Such stifling dark
And soul’s light extinct

I find myself here
Trussed by death’s grave
Without hope, just fear

In the cold, cold ground
Decayed and corrupt
Neath my burial mound

What's Cooking?

Altho' fearless it was flightless
I do declare
and when it found itself earthbound
was the dodo despondent in despair
or even think
it would become extinct
if it knew it was in
deep doo-doo
somewhat akin
to the the missing link
unafraid of man
who thought them dumb
as they come on the quiet
an easy prey for sailors
a whole new different dinner diet
but there was nothing to be done
for suspiciously delicious
history they could never outrun
or ever leave Mauritius

Epistle

Will pens
(I'd have to think
when last I dipped mine in ink)
and sad to say
pencils go
the dodo's way
become extinct or obsolete
(oh no)
to the average man in the street
as if it weren't for junk mail
no matter how large or small
never mind trees and ecology
wouldn't have no mail at all
when I was young still a nipper
a lot more lively
hale hearty and chipper
had pen pals galore
now they're e-pals
it's done with thumbs
some folks use keystrokes
and I'm not sure
if anyone
writes letters anymore

the biggest game is extinct

The biggest game is extinct
Thousands of years ago megafauna roamed the earth
Wolf-sized otter
Rhinos twice the size of elephants
Heavy seven-foot giraffes called sivatherium
They are all gone now
But skeletal remains do not lie

Dodo Talk

Words are born and some change, adapt, some wilt;
Norse drips into French seeps into English, hidden treasures under silt.
Blendings swirl meanings and semantics shift our daily use;
once uttered by tongue, electric touch now lets language loose.
Ancient lexis under threat became narrower with colonial treks;
Luhu and Yahagn, two dodo vocabularies now buried within texts.

Dear Thylacine

-Written for the Thylacine, and all the other animals that have been made extinct. You will be loved. You will be remembered

Dear thylacine,
you died alone:
the last of your kind.

How were you to know
that, with your death,
an entire species would end?

The peculiar mammal-marsupial
that looked like a tiger
crossed with a wolf,

Unable to compete with modern dogs;
wiped out by the diseases we introduced;
and killed in their masses
simply because they were in our way.

You became the last of your kind,
living within the walls of a zoo— 

yet safer than being wild and free;
only ever seen down the barrel of a gun. 

Dear Thylacine,
with your death came sorrow— 
but you were the last to live and breathe,
and you will always be remembered.

I will see you tomorrow, Thylacine,
because you live 
in my head.

Extinct

twit twit twit, twitter
little blue bird was crossed out
now eXtinct eXcised

Neanderthal Revived

The lost mirror of humanity’s soul, covered by helix threads 
Or a creature who would destroy the wall of man and beast 
Who would rip apart man’s olive crown for the kingdom of nature

Dinosaurs

In a sketch made doubly distinct
I have seen The Great Monster inked
By a lover of The Extinct, 
Who noticing my interest winked
Dinosaurs that killed on instinct:
The Alive soon dead before one blinked

Some hopes he'd via bringing them back?
Then, Lions would their actions slack!
God had quilted them for Lion;
Their bones had been complete iron

They'd been linked with The Jurassic
A time to not withhold classic
Yet mainly in monstrosity
An increase in adversity 
If one was stormed by Dinosaurs
Straight to grave no preceding sores:
Fresh bleeding wounds of  crumpled corpse
Their eyes alone would disarm cops.

Extinct Man

They're going extinct
Man?
They're almost there
An...

It's hard to take
Man
For all the wait
Man

That has our fates
Man
In more than late
Damn

Sumatran Rhinos

Sumatran Rhinos are listed as, critically endangered
and are now classified as, “functionally extinct”
as they are only seen in zoos, for their genes to be preserved
but the death of two subspecies, makes them so distinct

Sumatran Rhinos used to live, on Borneo and Sumatra islands
and are the smallest, of the living Asian Rhinos
These Rhinos have two horns, very unique to these hinterlands
and their long hair relates them to, the ancient Woolly Rhino

Poaching of Rhino horns, are sold on the black market
for medicine and ornaments, that makes them a big target 
and the biggest markets, are in China and Vietnam
as the greed of money, is a worldwide human scam

Sumatran Elephants

Sumatran Elephants, are critically endangered
and there are local extinctions, in many places
as it is humans, who have willfully managed
to invade their territory, not leaving many spaces

Nearly 70%, of the Sumatran Elephants great habitat
has been totally destroyed, by the now known human rat
 in just one generation, over two thirds of lowland forests
have been willfully razed, for business corporation profits

Humans have built, many pulp and paper industries
and constructed food generation, from oil palm plantations
creating animal, human conflict, over elephant territories
as the destruction of their land, is for human consumption

Only the male Asian Elephants, have those mighty tusks
and this makes them a be target, for the illegal black market
This cuts down their breeding, as they need a lot of conceiving
because the evil bloodline of money, is what humans are greeding

Bornean Orangutans

Bornean Orangutans are listed as, endangered
and they are known as,” the man of the jungle”
Orangutan family nests, are up high in the trees 
as this way of life, helps them fight disease 

They stand out as orange, with lips that pout
and have hands and feet, that grip like a press
with very strong arms, for their natural process
to help them swing, from branch to branch

Orangutans are frugivores, and play a vital role
to dispose many seeds, for Mother Nature’s control
but if humans allow, Orangutans to become extinct
so would many tree species, making all life distinct

Orangutans are hunted for food, and are captured 
to be seen as an elite symbol, for their life to be tattered
Their biggest threat, is the human overpopulation
encroaching on their land, with human deforestation

South China Tigers

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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