Extinction Poems

Gut Feeling

Your gut holds instinct, 
It will make you think.
That sinking feeling, 
Is revealing something.
Some things are not as they seem, 
The gut knows when to intervene.
Coming in between,
What you are seeing, 
Truly believing.
Receiving the information,
You have a clearer part to play in.
Within this simulation, 
Your tuned to your own station.
You feel the invasion, 
Embrace the

Living for Today

Over fourteen years ago pop culture told us
We’d only have twelve years to survive
Due to the existential threat of climate change.

Today I see a new prediction
That within two years AI will go rogue 
And humanity will be extinct within the decade.

And it reminds me again, people may be wrong,
But you never know, and yet can

The last song of the Kaua'i 'o'o bird

So if this be the last song I sing,
Let it be more beautiful and haunting
Than anything I have performed on this earth before.

Let the open night echo my words
In pity
For no one will ever respond anymore.

Let my unanswered call

Coil the chain around my neck and restrain me to this branch
As I break the silence of

Sixth Extinction

Once fishes, swift and swimmy,
populated seas, so many, 
while birds, ever fast and flighty,
ruled the sky in numbers mighty.
Ask man if a sixth extinction's funny,
he with machines, guns, and money.

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

Extinction - The Speech of Artemis

I cannot curse as others can,
I remedy, not hate.
Too well I know that beast in Man
That ever forms their fate.
Didst once we think that reason made
The mortal struggle cease or fade?
So lonesome were we that we sought
To give to dust that weapon, thought?
O, happy gods, who at our ease
May tend to treasures as we please!
Nor

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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