Icecaps Poems | Examples

Beachfront Property

Oh, when the waves roll in,
We're gonna lose the land.
There'll be no coastline left,
Just more dead fish and sand.

And as the icecaps melt,
We'll hear the ocean sound,
"I'm comin' for your homes,"
"There's no more higher ground."

Then with one giant wave,
We'll all be washed away.
Unless we change our course,
In time, we'll rue the day.

But, when our eyes get blurred,
Thru all the salty tears.
We'll just go down in flames,
With heads between our rears!

Return from Desert

Back from the desert and loving it
both the visit and the return.
The powerful plane deiced in Chicago.
Brittlebush, difficulty distinguishing acacia from ironwood.
Mesquite, and plenty of paloverde.
A good jazz band in Phoenix, their own style, no apology.

Could you also love your cancer? The vicious attack of a hedgehog
      cactus?
The winter storm that kept us on the tarmac three hours
followed us home. Used to be
when weather made the headlines, that was good news.
No more. Those melting icecaps and incoming meteors. 
Some pray, some stay still, some keep playing.

Anyway, notwithstanding inexorably expanding or otherwise rapidly 	
      contracting universes
I saw cercocarpus, phainopepla, tomentilla, saguaro, and a great guitarist. 
      Prayers were answered.

Seven Letter Scrabble Words

abandon
babbles
cabaret
dabster
eagerly
fabrics
glacier
habitat
icecaps
jabbers
7 letter scrabble words

Poetry's Mad

     a towel released cross
       a sheepish floor
     lizards grin at
       what they adore 

     time stands still
       feet replace hands
     only the robots
       shall understand

     of nameless deaths
       blind men sing
     harmonizing
       on apron strings         

     do racecars whir
       around the track
     as icecaps melt
       like pancakes stacked

     poetry's mad
       it’s plainly seen
     watching huskies howl
       ~ the moon doth preen

Love Is Evergreen

Love is a breath of fresh air in the park, a sapling inhaling sunshine 
Open your heart to it and it will surely make you feel wonderful    
Veer towards it and it will take you through the dance of life
Each and every one of us is capable of such, don't ask too much  


Icebergs melt at the sight of it, icecaps too by Love's hemisphere 
Sintillating emotions bubble up when it draws close, just enjoy it ! 

Eager to please love is always on the roll cruising right past go 
Veer towards it and it will take you through the dance of life 
Eye candy it is not, its much more than that, its enduring and strong 
Regard it with great passion and zeal, for its something you can't steal 
Grow with it and know that when its true love, it never dies, like the    
Rose, even when the petals fall away the memory of its scent remains  
Enameled in the heart forever and a day, Love is like an evergreen tree
Enlisted in nature's plea, it is always well taken care of, by the dovotee  
Night never closes in on it without a sweet goodnight, love oh love, it is !

Heated Hearts

Too much change, everything’s different,
How do we live here in the present?
Hot air rushing in our lungs like a vent,
Contagious fires, bright and fluorescent.

Dry cracked ground like our hearts,
Slowly drifting away, all off the charts,
Icecaps melting with all our hope,
All of humanity holding on by a rope

As the sky cries for us,
A painful topic all should discuss,
Signs go up in the sky, protesting for our planet,
Controversy posing potential threats.

Choked turtles and sick koalas,
As our faith walks on broken glass,
Getting worse, not enough help,
Watching as everything melts.

Let's All Do Our Part

Regardless of what some folks are saying
The weather is changing, climate’s askew
Major storms threaten atypical places,
Is there nothing at all we can do?

Let’s begin by developing a new respect
For this planet all of us call our home,
Consider cutting back on fossil fuels
Using fewer plastics, learning to defoam.

We can resolve to reduce pollution
Be more careful with disposable waste,
Recycling is an excellent practice
We should all begin doing it, posthaste.

The glaciers and icecaps are rapidly melting
We are destroying the vital ozone layer,
And it appears a time is quickly coming
When all of us won’t have a single prayer.

In truth, some will never be believers
They will, in ignorance, never play a part,
So, it seems to me rather obvious
We must hurry up and get a head start.

Let’s face it, global warming is upon us,
The weather is changing, climate’s askew
But, believe me, when I hasten to say
There’s plenty to slow it, we surely can do.

Toy Boats Made of Paper

Think, children: what will you tell
your grandchildren when they ask
about Earth--once bursting green
and red and yellow with blossoms
everywhere, and bushes serene 
in shadows of lime-colored trees,
with bird songs filling the air?

I hope you'll remember turquoise seas
brimming with life, color dancing on
water, boats with white sails, beaches,
seagulls, sandpipers, whales. Men fishing
creeks, children's splashing feet, sitting
beneath Summer's lush leaves,
making toy boats made of paper.

I know you'll recall purple mountains so tall,
snow-crested peaks of lilac at eveningfall;
inhaling perfumed blossoms and wonder
of pines, you could hear aspens whispering,
jays poking fun, noisy creeks in their run,
deer peeking quickly behind gentle oaks,
a magical potpourri for the mind.

Grandchildren will smile as you gaze out 
the window, attempting to find memories
of Earth as it was long ago, before losing
our way in pollution's crazed mind. But now
all she can find: industries' emissions, urban pall,
oceans clogged, forests burned, icecaps gone,
plastics, dust, muck, sun going blind...

      toy boats made of paper, bird so.......
forgotten now

Why Icecaps Dissolve

past blame   unresolved 
      present account   self absolves 
      ~   future   waives resolve



23/12/2020
By David Kavanagh

Green Ribbon Concert Over the Icecaps

Green ribbons over the icecaps,
waves of emerald and lime
escape from heaven’s splendor
to crash against skyscape and mountain.

Fingers of light greet spectators
with a Joie de vivre flair,
calling nature’s children to
watch the show and the earth smiles.

Mesmerized, I watch as
light-year’s splendor does it’s 
own Hula to the music of
universal spheres.

My heartbeat crescendo’s
as the great composer’s baton
brings the performance back into,
adagio, adagio.



5-20-2021
ALL YOURS (MAY 20) Poetry Contest
Brian Strand

Don'T Change Our Climate

DONT CHANGE OUR CLIMATE


Dear Mother Nature
Answer some questions
About our future
Lots to mention
Things are changing
Bad or good?
Am I ageing
Like I should?
Worried about life
And all within
Day becomes night
Suns gone in
Summers washed away
With constant rain
April and May
Hot as Spain
Magpies making nests
In January time
Hedgehogs don’t rest
In hibernation time
Icecaps are melting
At fast speeds
Polar bears sweating
Needing to feed
Lambs on mountains
Instead of snow
Changes we’re counting
Fast not slow
Please tell us
What you’re doing?
Do we fuss?
Are we losing
Our world today?
Are you proving
Our bad ways?

This Crazy World

This crazy world
Steven Hawkins is dead his contribution to science 
was magnificent, even though I do not understand.
In the meantime, we pollute the land big cities are
running out of drinking  water and future wars will not
be about oil but fresh water.
We continue to fight wars that are about ism and power,
yes, the isms that by its nature is hateful and
only good to make those who live here dislike into ogres.
Space is full of debris, our ocean so full of plastic
that marine life die, but still, we carry on over a cliff
and down the abyss, icecaps are melting showing 
Islands we want to use for oil- exploration can we not
Delay this haste to our doom,
Perhaps Steven Hawkins’s had a point!

Angry Sun

She comes down near my head daily
releasing sharp spears on it precisely
I shout for mercy but she listens not
without compassion she tortures me

Born brown angry Sun darkened me
the blood veins are hidden beneath
my eyes refuse to see  precious world
just because of actions of angry Sun

I live in Africa where the Sun is angry
and the people have also become angry
the hair  in anger has refused to grow long
but the angry Sun never misses to rise

Angry Sun, angry Sun give me a break
I also want to enjoy this earthly Africa
migrate angry Sun, migrate to North Pole
find your way for a season to South Pole

The icecap is a sleepy giant in the Poles
go to Arctic and conquer icecaps of ancient
go to Antarctica and spear her heart fatally
as for me in Africa enough is enough

Wired

Ted Hughes warned of telegraph wires
and their tones that empty human bones

In this more modern digital age
I wonder too, through wired rage

Whether the internet, full of trolls and ****
Can perhaps evolve beyond its scorn

And become the tool for improving life,
Sharing ideas, battling strife

As our brains melt, and the icecaps too
It seems, surely the best thing to do

Is to ditch the trolls into the sea,
Re-wire, connect and find the key

Use it to solve the problems ahead
With enlightenment, not wired dread.

Forever

Way before God created heaven and earth.
Before Adam and Eve were conceived from dirt.
Before flowers knew how to bloom, or the birds knew how to fly.
Before fish knew how to swim, or the stars adorned the sky.
Before we could discern the difference in night and day.
Before the world turned on an axis, and the sun could slide away.
Before we made our own decisions, and our strings were cut loose.
Before i knew i loved you, i knew i loved you!
So until the sun turns red and bleeds out the sky.
And the land becomes barren, and everything dies.
Until the world stands still, and time is reversed.
And the end of time as we know it's rehearsed.
Until the equator freezes, and the icecaps melt.
And the universe implodes and swallows itself.
Until we're tested by situations of for worse or for better.
Before the beginning and after the end, i'll love you forever!

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