Long Icecaps Poems

Winters are growing colder,
Global warming is a threat,
Polar icecaps are melting,
Causing scientists to fret.

Hurricanes and earthquakes,
Tornadoes, floods and fires,
These disasters are more frequent,
Every year becomes more dire.

The economy is broken,
Accusations are being flung,
Corruption is running...

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Mankind, you're so proud and tall
You really think you know it all
And once you had discovered fire
to such great heights you did aspire

Once, gladly, of myself I gave
but now your plan is to enslave
Do you...

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an inner conflict dust brew
within this scribe, who offers ye to chew
(like sweet treats metaphorically) thee do
tee incumbent, when Doomsday clock 
     counts down minutes few

according Al Gore rhythm  
...

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My nightmare is so tangible...so vividly I dream,
The dream, it feels so true to me...reality it seems.

Exhaust and smoke are all I breathe...the air is full of smog...
The job I do is thankless toil, but...

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Dear Humanity:

You know I love you, right?
Stop calling me Mother Nature!
I hate that!
Genderless am I…
Oh, yeah, I get the ‘bring life forth’ bit,
creator of new life, pregnant with your desire
…yada, yada, yada,
my womb is your...

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Brass windchimes
ring melodic time
backed up
and down,
back
and forth
by boisterous breeze voices
blowing somewhat more silent choices
below

Before benighted rejoice
reprise to rise
and fall
wounded fail
yet again

Melodious inside intentions
to ring true
love's restoring stories
of local justice circling
dynamic spirals inside
looking resounding out
virally
conspiratorially
anticipating healthier...

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Planet Mars watches over us like angel at night
With Venus, the star that shines so bright
It’s one of our cosmos’ fascinating sights
A red planet inviting us on its glowing light.

As I gaze its beauty and...

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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...

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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...

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In my present absence
I’m trying to remember where I misplaced the key
To unlock the door to my own existence

I rise with the smelting icecaps
Only to come crashing down with the rising levels of pollution
So I’m...

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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...

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It ran along the backbone like a stoney ripple plunged
Darker in the deep of hearty's forgotten tarn
How high, how high did that water rise?
To be carried off by conduits, banked by its fall

Oh Europe it...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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,...

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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 porn
Can perhaps evolve beyond its scorn

And become...

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

...

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