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Extinction Poems - Poems about Extinction

Premium Member A Mammoth Mistake?
"Sam Dumpty here for National Geoplastic Magazine. I am surrounded by the most prominent scientists and archeologists in the world. The occasion? The unveiling of the de-extincted wooly mammoth. To say that the level of excitement is to the moon and back would be an understatement. All have been briefed as to the science involved...

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Categories: extinction, animal,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Extinction
And through the coursing, swirling nights, Go they the way of trilobites. ...

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Categories: extinction, animal, dark, death, nature,
Form: Couplet



The path to extinction
A little diversity will ensure our survival, Too much will reduce the chance of our survival, As we start seeing everyone else as a rival, And give the devil an early indication for the time of his arrival, None at all will push the date forward for the next species' arrival. ...

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Categories: extinction, absence, abuse, addiction, america,
Form: Burlesque
Would That We Would Have Never Been Born
the earth would have sighed a long, deep breath and sunk back into herself. no asphalt veins strangling the soil, no glass-and-steel shrines to ambition, no engines grinding the silence into dust. the wolves would have sung their old songs to the moon, and the rivers would have run clean, like laughter before we ever came crawling out of the primordial slime. the trees, unbothered, would have risen higher, and the...

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Categories: extinction, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ode To Mankind
Prologue: To the majority of people who seem to have lost touch this is presented as a declaration to be treated as such. And just for the world's deteriorating natural environment of which we're all a contributing cause by our embodiment. We hardly ever stop and consider how wasteful a life we lead but continue on for the sake of progress...

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Categories: extinction, birth, corruption, death, environment,
Form: Ode



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...

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Categories: extinction, animal, appreciation, death, humanity,
Form: Free verse
How to survive an AIi Extinction event
I cavilled my eyes to another me We won’t Why do we have to learn if you can do it artificially The free looked at the hill made of giraffes Sorry I put these lines in Secretly trying to turn it sent E ant at your service I am the keeper of the ant scrolls Real ly as opposed to the fake ly Shake like scooby...

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Categories: extinction, poems,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member extinction dilemma
not one easy way out so how come i see two a dilemma in cloak could be doubt total eclipse? an asteroid hiding in smoke? sky rips kaboom then the earth broke doom not one easy way out an asteroid hiding in smoke doom...

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Categories: extinction, deep, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member After After
With remnants of mankind’s existence corroding His lighting extinguished, his concrete eroding The birds and the beasts have reconquered his space Those same birds and beasts have forgotten his face The forests, once dwindled, have burgeoned once more Oak, elm and ash rupture old asphalt floor Long vacant dwellings, now caves, dens and lairs For ground dwelling mammals while bats live upstairs The...

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Categories: extinction, war,
Form: Rhyme
Mailbox Extinction
Tear by on a Friday Doing 75 down Sharon Road Short cut up north through the federal woods Back here No one knows from US-127 About the clear-cutting as far as the eye can see Or the heads of hills chopped off and rolling And curves of road that’ve lost their will To bend A mailbox shakes in my scissor wake With no house or...

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Categories: extinction, absence, corruption, earth, environment,
Form: Free verse
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...

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Categories: extinction, animal, deep, humanity, identity,
Form: Sijo
Distinction Gone Into Extinction
Where does one find True Extinction Long gone into sad extinction? Know I some doubly soiled magistrates Clean for their mansions with balustrades, A wife-beater philanthropist Who would not pay for bandaged wrist, A lauded sharp shooter commando Who fired and missed stalked Fernando And doctor who called colleague 'Dummy' But swab forgot in patient's tummy... And it's second missionary journey Prompting a bribing of...

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Categories: extinction, career, cry, image, people,
Form: Rhyme
Helpless Yet Hopeful
“Helpless Yet Hopeful” Click, click, click ROARRR Humans attempt to save the rainforests… Well, some at least. Trees laid to rest. 5 Fragmentation of habitats. Large expanses destroyed, Leaving smaller, unconnected patches. We need to restore the damaged ecosystems With the help of planting trees. 10 Trees are diamonds. Delicate and elegant. We need to protect the rainforest Before it’s too late. Fossil fuels must...

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Categories: extinction, 11th grade, environment, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Stagnation
stagnation a trait which many soon come to hate for what it negates refusing to look, see, hear beyond beliefs most hold dear hardening one's mind to those seeming unrefined yields socially blind unaware people are blend of diverse thoughts, forms and trends becoming like rock which requires an extreme shock to look past own flock know evolution's in play existence makes new each day stagnation a curse making humanity worse stuck...

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Categories: extinction, change, culture, fate, humanity,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Extinction Prevention
" I am distinctly referring to Humans as the endangered species here" ...

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Categories: extinction, environment, planet,
Form: Rhyme

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