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restless summer heat

Restless Summer heat

It is odd how we forget we live on a restless planet
the talk of the melting ice cap is true enough; it melted
before when Greenland was a hot house for plants
In Spain and Portugal, the impression is of two lands
are burning tragedy we blame people for
but we overlook that there was a serious fire in 1823
so nothing is new on the planet
Flooding in Pakistan has happened for a long time
where people work on land, that is the path of
flooding and avalanches, not every inch of land
is suitable for mankind; we are on borrowed time
Earth will shake us off like a louse on a dog's fur

A message from outer space

I AM  miles away in outer space  sending a message to the human race 

Your wildlife is dying in fields of fire 

And your ice cap is melting as the temperature gets higher 

You have so much plastic that fills your sea's 

And your world is being infected  by a new disease 

You have a problem without a doubt 
And you need to act now to sort it out

You have a hole in your ozone that is getting bigger 

But your leaders denied this they laugh and s 

So I am sending you this message from outer space 

You need to save your planet and the human race. 
 
            Your intergalactic watcher
              A. LIAN...

In Which I Swallow My Last Breath

This is the story
in which I die
and come back to life

I thought it was over
I felt powerless,
purposeless
but I of course discovered
the opposite side of the coin

I gave up, almost
from the highest roof
I’ve had in this city 
I could have flung myself

I didn’t do it,
I couldn’t be like he was

Instead I was brave
I called a number 
told someone
got help

a three day
suspension
from the real world 
can be more helpful
than I knew

every cell in my body
heaved
I swallowed my last breath
learned
to sink into the emotion

deeper and deeper
and deeper I sank,
down through the ice cap
miles thick of the trauma I froze in
down, down
into the waters below
I learned every feeling is allowed

and once I learned that,
the process of completion
could begin

WATER DROP

How long does a drop last?
An eternity or dry up fast?
Wiped away by a towel
Or drank away with a swallow

Just a little drop of wet 
Not in the ocean yet 
But when they meet
They splash and crash
As they greet

Deep down in the sea
In and out of gills
So many wonders to see
Swooshing about with thrills

Washed up ashore
When heat begins to attack
Evaporate and grow more
Riding on a clouds back

How long will that cloud last?
Growing big and vast
Until temperature cools
And gravity rules

So down came that water drop
Into a river with a flop
Flowing fast and splashing
Into a pool savagely thrashing

Down a pipe, in fact
Coming out of a tap
Have you ever just sat
Thinking time has passed 

How long does that drop last
North and south snowy mass
Frozen in time forever trapped 
Part of a larger ice cap

Our Duty

The ice cap is melting our seas are getting higher.

There is smoke from the land because of raging fire.

Our ozone is getting thiner there's plastic in our seas.

Our green fields are burning and we are killing all the tree's

This world is dying it's giving all it can give 

So we must now protect this earth if we want this earth 
To live

Night Club

Club nocturnal

In Bilbao, on a warm evening, he walked past a nightclub 
walked in and had a beer; he could have gone to 
a Guggenheim Museum and be culturally minded, absorb
and mention it later in a passing conversation, “the other
day at the Guggenheim.”
At the club, a group of people sat drinking affluent bubbly
wine, thinking it was champagne, the group laughed a lot
and apparently had a fine time, although, he thought they
were a bit frenzied about the fun
The people around the table didn’t look prosperous and
the women looked like office tarts, with too much lipstick and 
mascara, flashing eyes and giggles.
He knew (had been there) that the one footing the bill
would feel dreadful in the morning, sensing the futility
an ice cap on sagging shoulders of hopelessness.
No, it was not the drinking, real drinkers do not frequent 
nightclubs, but drinking at modest places, was about feeling swanky
 a man about town.
He paid for his beer and complained about the price 
the waiter pointed to a pricelist hanging high on a wall, so there!
Along the boulevard, he bought newspapers went to a café, 
had some wine and spent hours enjoying himself.

Winter Nights

It’s a cold and winter night
The sky is showing it’s bright-lights
Twinkling of the night time stars
You’ll think it’s the planet Mars
Dropping down its ice cap-lights

A Century of Years Later

Consider all the years of planet earth
so much change in all that time
even in past century so very much done
became hi-tech age but is all in rhyme?

Now less think now about far into future
one hundred years seems a long way
will that generation know things now?
for no one knows what's ahead in a day

The world may not be here then
Jesus could have returned here
but the world may still be open
open for service may be laid bare

Climate control may have taken over
the arctic ice cap will have gone
so much water covered so much of earth
even fish won't be found gone to spawn

A century of years later
where much indeed changed
if we peoples still do exist
at best we'll all be rearranged

(I have written this piece to look at what I think my version of this world 100 Years Hence would look like.)

The Future

Heartbeat octopus fern
Tropical bubblegum endless dunes
Baby's breath pomegranate zest for life

Wonderful wisteria  
wild blue yonder nest
Ivory sunset ice cap
The future?

11/26/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2020

Frosty Ice Cap

a frosty icecap
left to her own devices
in the gelid blue of the subzero cave
added ambiance to the stalagmites

What She Doesn'T Know

A smile on her face and a gleam in her eye - From the poem 'Batter up.' by Eve Roper
I can't deny she doesn't know
what will happen, what shall come later
That one day the free-spirited angel we see will vanish
One day her optimism will fade
as she discovers it isn't worth the light of day
Hard work pays off, well certainly
that's what we are told we have to think.
One isn't always so fortunate to never experience
behind the scenes work.
What you see isn't ever the whole truth
only a bleak analysis, a review
The submerged portion of the ice cap is fogged over
The mind is not the face, 
happiness is not the grief and distress
The smile begins to fade
the gleam begins to grow dimmer, and dimmer
Her mind grows more aware
and she sheds her first tear.
her good memories disappear into thin air
her conscience roars as it takes over
her walls of sanity come splintering down,
in an earthquake named understanding.

What If

What if the earth's not flat just a bit bent
Horizons but the hype of those who fled
Twisted by the weight of our cement
The creeping edge of "mindful" government.
Perhaps the bureaucrats should drop their drawers
And turn the ice cap yellow as it thaws
Mock the crumbling of the Arctic shelf
The house and senate playing with themself.
But then again the status quos a lie
for nothing stays the same, not earth, not sky
The giant redwoods fell and slowly died
Long before the crush of human pride.
And we a mutant curse upon the planet
Sit in broken shale we took for granite.

John G. Lawless
2/2/2020d

My Fiance Is a Fairy

ice-cap head
smoky mouth
red charcoal feet

Man and Woman

man and woman I guess
were created opposites
stay together as opposites
but once they come to know
about each other’s names
they become like poles
both south or both north
the magnetic field blurs
then ice-cap covers faces
awaiting climatic hazards
to perform rare charity
of warming up the ice-caps

Beauty Sings Eternally Grateful

Sure as the cherry blossoms flutter whispers 
upon a winds breath gently dances lace 
pink softens petal wrapped cotton silk 
winds whisper when Christmas falls 
unfolding a white blanket reversed undying 
cold melts frozen ice cap exposed life 

As the ferry man always calls tricks 
chills piercing icicles crystal clear cut 
cracks appear under a surface cross 
mirrors of destiny from the salted ocean 
we pay homage with our dewdrops sparkle 

Recollecting time falling back 
counting down past sins
kissing your feet in each step forward 
Forever adds up to precious memories 
searching the stars fallen burning fire explains all
where dust remains upon a magic wish blown freely 

Always light of our Saviour comes 
crowing heavens sky supernova 
star of all stars prince of peace 
enters a King's blessing 
so comforting warm alone with you Lord 
joyous angels of Grace forever holds 
the highest of all notes chanting 
brightly upon one treasured gift Temple 
Ark of the covenant I believe in you

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