Tandoori or Tangerine Tan shorts no4
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Cohorts of suits distort
Court the last resort
Damnation of immigration
Onslaught in cahoots cavort
Pander to propaganda slander
Escort darker fraught faces
From other races c...
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Categories:
fossil fuel, society,
Form: Free verse
Tangerine or Tandoori Tan Man - full version
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Tandoori or Tangerine Tan?
Mister rich lister Blister
Sinister Mandarin Minister
Sin..Spin & Chagrin Talisman
Jaundice scrotum prejudice totem
Podium pandemonium
Needs Imodium....
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Categories:
fossil fuel, education, political, society,
Form: Free verse
Planet in pluvial fluvial flux
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Planet in flux…it sucks
No refuge..Scrooge rules..
Stooges subterfuge deluge..
Fossil fuel fools..
Poleaxes..then relaxes…
As the earth burns..
As it turns..on its axis..
*****...
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Categories:
fossil fuel, nature, planet, pollution,
Form: Free verse
Still Saluting Putin?
...Will Putin listen?
Siberia gulags glisten
Hysteria seeds myopia
Creeds..deeds feeds dystopia
Crimea bleeds...greed cornucopia
Impassioned stock shock rationed
Shepherd & flock fashi...
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Categories:
fossil fuel, political, power,
Form: Rhyme
INFERNAL COMBUSTION AGAIN
...We go on burning fossil fuel
thinking that nature we can fool.
No lessons do we seem to learn
as more and more carbon we burn.
Despite seeing climate warming
the see-o-two we’re still dumping.
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Categories:
fossil fuel, destiny, environment, pollution,
Form: Rhyme
Rather than crank up the heat
...Rather than crank up the heat...
and ratchet up global warming
like bubbling vegetable stew
with tsk... tsk... heard
courtesy Greta Thunberg,
who would utter "how dare you..."
I bundle with...
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Categories:
fossil fuel, adventure, angel, appreciation, childhood,
Form: Rhyme
Full of Beans
...What happens when the only light you see
Is the mainstream media’s gaslight?
It’s Plato’s Cave all over again
Except the fire throwing shadows now
Is an official gaslight torch.
Ironic tho’ give...
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Categories:
fossil fuel, political, society,
Form: Narrative
Container
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Containers come with different purposes
as they hold, wage, measure and engage.
From stone walls to fragile shells,
blood vesse...
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Categories:
fossil fuel, art,
Form: Ode
Our Children Will Accept Nothing Less
...Our Children Will Accept Nothing Less
I believe climate change has us thinking more about our responsibility to all life on our planet.
I believe we can save ourselves and our world from extinction...
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Categories:
fossil fuel, 12th grade, environment,
Form: Free verse
Fossil Fuel Row
...The windows are closing in, and gaps are getting thin, mankind has paid the sacrifice for useless pollution on the surface of the earth and their lungs are filled with dirt.
I look above the ben...
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Categories:
fossil fuel, animal, business, change, community,
Form: Narrative
Mocking the Dead
...Living is mocking the dead,
To dance while they rot instead,
Each breath that we take
Is a slap in the face
Cause living is mocking the dead.
Living is such a conundrum,
Every human that lives ...
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Categories:
fossil fuel, angst, dark, death,
Form: Rhyme
A Slow Decline
...A Slow Decline
Farmers wake, farm their fields.
Their wives tend hearth and home,
chickens, pull milk from cows,
slop the pigs. Fishermen struggle
against fleets of slowly departing
commercia...
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Categories:
fossil fuel, 10th grade,
Form: Free verse
While Brushing My Teeth
...while brushing my teeth …
tragedies occur worldwide
iron mixed with clay
flooding my senses daily
filling my bottle of tears
while brushing my teeth …
railroad crossing warning lights
ignore...
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Categories:
fossil fuel, environment, fear, future, hope,
Form: Tanka
Be Not Complacent Bout Dire Global Warming
...Be not complacent 'bout dire global warming...
Thus spake Zarathustra
necessitating donning layered clothing
in tandem, especially trumpeting
being with wise mind and economical
exercising...
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Categories:
fossil fuel, 12th grade, appreciation, april,
Form: Rhyme
Climate Crisis - Hiku
...carbon dioxide
methane
political hot air
Greta alert
David alert
parochial apathy
fossil fuel
Indian blockade
dinosaurs cop out
16 November 2021
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Categories:
fossil fuel, earth, environment, green, world,
Form: Haiku
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