Loyalty serves solidarity
as passion fuels integral communion.
Passionate patristic patriotism
does not work
for optimizing resilient healthy intent
nor do partisan loyalties
win/win play for resonant wealth
building collaborative feelings,
when the cart
replaces the horse.
Solidarity with my Home Team
my narrowest nuclear family
only those who look
and sound like Straight White Patriarchal
monotheistic chosen
and grace-privileged wealth
serves loyalty only to further win/lose competitions,
Aspiring champions of small-egominded
and disembodied reductions,
deductions
divisions,
rather than wealthing health co-investments
in Earth-collaborative consciousness.
RightWing loyalty serves
LeftWing multicultural solidarity
as red-blooded patristic passion
fuels ecofeminist green communion.
Similarly,
but more co-arisingly,
safe and resilient cultural wealth
empowers win/win ClimateHealth
or win/lose subclimate supremacy
monoculturally risks fragility
of polycultural green communion
inductive,
integral,
inclusive healthy-wealth opportunities.
When I watch the news, I become concerned about humanity's future, alarmed at the speed of irreversible changes happening to our planet, from global warming to climate change and the possible extinction of plankton and coral reefs. I've witnessed devastating floods in Bangladesh, India, Japan, and China, as well as droughts in the United States, Somalia, and Morocco, displacing thousands of people from their homes. The world is in crisis! According to the most recent United Nations estimates, Earth’s population was 7.9 billion as of 2021. We cannot sustain the lifestyle we enjoy today on a planet with shrinking, finite resources. People are living longer, demanding more, and are rapidly destroying the world’s ecosystems. We've ravaged and poisoned our oceans, burnt or cut down our forests, and squandered our fossil fuels. Whatever future calamities await the human race, they will be life-changing and as inevitable as Death and the rise and fall of the tides.
hunger fuels hate
there's no compassion in greed...
a baby is born
thunder is a game i used to play
lightening is the reaction to the end result
hail is the expression of the record of my career and my life
the wind is the temperamental cry of my struggle in deep reflection
rain is the blueprint from which i construct the as presented to you and them
roots are the beginning processes of unbeknownst damage started by me
growth is the weeds untouchable by machete of scythe
foundation is the permanent tidal wave i cause when i mess up your brain with a fodder of falsity
poverty is the blues and the bruises that consume you take your walk the wrong way
arrow is the defiant daredevil refusing to let me forget the seeds that i planted once upon a time in a storm
flood is the blood rushing to my head as my prematurely age from the stress of regret
sewer is my final resting place where i die of consumption and typhus
THE IRREVERSIBLE FACTOR
‘There is time for everything’.
We have all been saying
All the time in our mouths and minds
But in reality this does not surface in our lives, which I mind,
I blame it on poor planning and indiscipline,
Which are clear in our daily lives, and it’s plain.
A fish does not live on land and birds in water,
Neither do elephants fly.
All have places they habitat.
And so is time; no change, no exchange.
The opportunity today is irreversible tomorrow.
That opportunity when it may come again takes a different façade.
A flying elephant can have a chance in an art gallery,
A nice painting of a bird under the sea and a standing fish on land
Can but give an artistic representation of impossibility.
Passing time has no representation again in both reality and fanciness,
But a history of no amends and reversibility.
If there is no event on a given time,
It becomes insignificant but only takes away a chunk of our limited duration on earth!
Once said it’s irreversible
So be careful what you say
Think of the consequences
Of what those words can do
Russell Sivey
Excellent
I initiate
I give
Love
Lord
Love you
You have it
You got it
Know
Love
Lord
I felt the sun shine on my face
Then a shadow stood in silence
Look to see a handsome stranger
Weeping
I feel compassion
Unsure of what to say or do
Simply just ignore him
Then a shot rings out, I look to see
My lap, his lifeless body
People came from all around
To view this lifeless creature
Me, I tried to remove myself
His blood had stained my body
“Oh my God” I cried aloud
“Will someone here please help me?”
Passerby just walked away
Free from shame and sorrow
Finally free of this lifeless man
My thoughts were in that moment
I saw him there alone and scared
Crying
I did do nothing
Would one kind word
A simple prayer
Change this final outcome
Supposing now it is too late
Damage
irreversible
Looking for the formal definition, structure, and history of this poetry form? Visit the Poetry Dictionary entry below. Then return to explore how PoetrySoup members bring the form to life through their own poems.