Long Extinction Poems
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I'd like to step back in time a bit
And mention the dinosaur.
He lived two hundred million years
And then was seen no more.
The dino's demise is a mystery
That's hashed and often rehashed here.
One fav'rite hypothesis seems to be
That a giant asteroid crashed here.
Argued by clerics, and scientists,
And other great men of distinction,
Some clearly deluded,
Yet none has concluded
What actually caused the extinction.
What really occurred
Lies somewhere obscured
Amongst all those theories and guesses.
Some still do remain, though,
Like the crane and komodo,
And a number of interstate truck-stop waitresses.
Creation
Maturation
Adaptation
Proliferation
Evolution
Industrialization
Automation
Production
Pollution
Suffocation
Destruction
Obliteration
Extinction of Man?
Planet's salvation!
© Demetrios Trifiatis
01 November 2016
Polish
by Michael R. Burch
Your fingers end in talons—
the ones you trim to hide
the predator inside.
Ten thousand creatures sacrificed;
but really, what's the loss?
Apply a splash of gloss.
You picked the perfect color
to mirror nature's law:
red, like tooth and claw.
I thought about titling or subtitling this one “A mini-ode to manicure” but thought better of it. Please note that this poem is not about female predators or lipstick and nail polish, per se, but the way the human race “glosses over” its predatory nature. We may appear to be “civilized” with our constant grooming and high fashion, but what are we doing to the planet and its other inhabitants? I suspect many animals facing climate change/global warming and possible extinction would prefer less "civilization."
Extinction
Each thing, each being is destined to extinct
to initiate new text in new print.
Life originates, species are evolved
Diversities run swing to get resolved.
Era after Era comes in array
New generation comes, old goes away.
Life is desirable and nature will enable.
Extinction is inevitable, even undesirable
Chances also play big role in evolution
Natural catastrophe cause mass extinction.
01/04/15
Contest No. 233 any theme/form max 10 lines by Brian Strand
Poor Death, thou art not terror, but delay,
A pause the body makes before it learns
Another grammar. Nothing here is lost.
What breath abandons does not fall to null,
For law itself denies annihilation.
The sum of force persists, though shape must shift.
Why then should I, a parcel of that force,
Recoil as though extinction lay ahead?
I feel it daily—heat that leaves the skin,
A voice that fades yet trembles in the room,
The pressure where a hand has just withdrawn
Still warm with meaning after touch is gone.
So much of me already practices
This leaving: words forgotten, cells replaced,
The child I was dissolved without alarm.
I walk composed of former versions shed,
Yet nothing in me calls that dying wrong.
Death is no thief but only the last clerk,
Closing the ledger gently, line by line.
He carries nothing off. He merely turns
The page the body cannot hold much longer.
What I have been does not grow less by this.
I watch the dusk redistribute the day—
No color lost, but rearranged as shade.
The sun declines without confessing harm;
Its fire persists elsewhere, unnamed, unseen.
So let Death come unarmed. I owe him calm.
He takes no life; he changes how it moves.
Oh my goodness! Did you see that???
A mousie riding on the back of a cat
Guess these guys have kissed and made up
Heard mousey yell “Hey! Giddy-up!”
Great to see them getting on so well
Mousey's relieved, as you can tell
Wearing a big grin from ear to ear
Felix is enjoying it too, it appears
Remember this lesson from one time rivals
Don't need no conflicts for survival
It's a whole lot better to laugh and have fun
Than face extinction at the point of a gun
So what did you learn from this sweet wee tale?
Enjoy yourself and drink lots of ale
You'll see little mousies and cats at play
Instead of killings on TV each day!
© Jack Ellison 2012
Revolving around the star (our Sun)
Hidden from earth’s line of sight
Is orbiting something else from elsewhere
Monitoring the progress of the DNA program.
Assigned promising this time by the scientific academy
Ordained by the Galactic Order of Divinity...
A sentient species is exhibiting the signs
Worthy of closer observation.
All transmissions are being relayed by the Mothership
To all the home worlds of previously successful experiments.
I’ve been eavesdropping on them through my dreams
Makes my head spin just thinking about it
Instead of sleepwalking, I sleepwrite
Which is why I keep a pen and journal
Next to my bed in the exact same spot everynight.
Circling around for all extensive purpose an eternity
Learning from past failures, it has always been supported
By the scientific community to make adjustments
To the program to achieve the desired results.
Ice ages, Mass extinction events, global floods.
However, If by unknown circumstances
The program self-destructs
Rendering the planet
Unhospitable and uninhabitable
Fear not
I have been reassured that time is on GOD’s side
And plenty of DNA starter vials are in stock
For starting over is always an option
Because failure is just another lesson learned.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
The direction and pursuit that man endeavors to,
Follows a complex and convoluted path.
Where the distant future is left in question, and
Survival or extinction are answers to the math.
If purpose is the map in this journey, then
Multiple trails may lead to far and distant lands.
Yet when looking back upon some historic carnage,
One may only wonder of any current plans.
There are many guides added along this trek,
Attempting to point the way and evaluate.
While technology and spiritual fingers seek a union,
So each step won't lead to more hate.
As humanity takes a hard look at itself,
It must decide for the sake of it all, what is best.
Then, one can only hope that an evolved wisdom,
Becomes the tip of the spear, towards this quest.
There was once a king who decided that for him - beauty was silence.
He issued a decree that all sound was banished henceforth and that his land would forever more be as silent as snow. To enforce this impossible law he sent countless envoys to every corner of the land. Every creature was informed. No birds can sing. No dogs must bark. No man, woman or child could speak their needs and must now make them known by signs. Even the very thunder was ordered to be mute.
The penalty of course was death. Few were able to obey.
Flocks of birds were shot from the heavens. Dogs were slain before their master’s eyes. All the trees were stripped of leaves lest the wind should sigh through them. Brooks were frozen so water could not splash or gurgle down the stream beds.
It was like a permanent winter with bare trees and frozen ground.
Children at play were wiped out without mercy. Cows being herded were bombed for lowing. This unmerciful killing went on for many years.
The merest sound so angered the King that he ordered atrocious punishments for offenders that he did not kill.
The talents of artist were in great demand as they painted cards for all occasions for people to flash. in lieu of speaking. The effect on the population was to cause the formation of many covert societies where secret meetings, when betrayed, were raided and countless murders committed by the ‘silence’ enforcers.
The King was greatly feared by everyone and dubbed “Snowman - the Silencer”
Generations of good people were wiped out. Countless noisy species were hunted to extinction. Music was never heard or played.
Silent clocks were invented. Sound-proof rooms were built. Some desperate parents, to protect their children, opted to have their babies larynx-es removed at birth.
The King was surrounded by silent apathetic, joyless subjects.
The King’s obsession had effectively destroyed all the people, the life and the environment around him.
How much easier it would have been, if he, in wanting silence had only thought to destroy his own eardrums.
Is it so much that we believe in ourselves
You and I so different in life our journey
Difference in path we live same hopes
Mine not as rich as yours or is it
Each has purpose we find homelessness
We struggle the same dream of reality
Beaten? Or just experience of life's teachings
Our spirit, as if a breath from God
Somewhere creation comes as dust we breathe
So to earth our dust returns extinction
Where is it I am like you yourself
Our blood do not match the veins flow
As my attitude more optimistic reality set
Things happen, it's just a part of life
I do not hate my neighbor but tolerate your being
Our opinions different looking for same outcome
Is what's seen truth or what's lead to believe
In you multi personality disorder malfunction
Living for world, do not be like it
But unto you a peaceful soul inside
Be one with yourself you do not lie
Be as one in your heart love flows from
But be differently that your trail leave print
That even behind a cloud there's still sun
Didn't choose who we are, you chose what we are
Lead by example, cause we really are differently