When heavy rain has caused mass run-off from bare farmland above
and the creek has become murky and muddy reddish browned
How do the fish, the turtles, eels and also tiny shrimp, maintain vision,
to fossick for their food in the locality where they are found
In the tropic monsoon wet season, it can often take some weeks
before the creek has subsided and the water finally clears
Environmental pollution, that results from mans pursuits,
it's exponential, been happening for years
Will it take mass extinction of most of humankind to return to sanity,
on this beautiful creation, known as planet Earth
Craziness prevails throughout the human race
common sense and love seems to be in a state of dearth
Seems so surreal...billions of beings
held in place by invisible forces
atop a giant spinning orb
dependent on the charity of
mother bird's star warmth.
It's a golden time for Earth and mankind
conceiving and evolving, creating
mastering fantastic things.
Flying machines and curing diseases.
Searching for the key to the speed of light.
Unwinding the helix-dreaming in spacetime.
Ego, as an algae bloom, enters the gilded room.
Disturbing the divine and pure nature of things.
Warring and serial raping...rinse and repeat.
Mankind so volatile, so violent, so unkind.
Careening toward another mass extinction.
The beginning and ending deeply set in scripture.
Trimmed and encrypted, whittled down to imperfection.
With an ungodly amount of editing in between.
No wonder mankind seems detached and indifferent.
Mother bird star warmth will remain.
Long after the golden tide of mankind subsides.
She'll pulse her warmth to the next icy orb...
Hopeful that grace will finally overcome ego.
Hey, straight people,
Why do you hate?
You won't leave it
Open for debate.
Hey straight people,
Why do you harm?
We refuse silence,
We ring the alarm.
Hey straight people,
Why do you kill?
It's just a *****,
It's no big deal.
Hey straight people,
Don't tell us how
it should be.
I won't bother you,
You don't bother me.
Hey straight people,
A little equality.
We are the same,
When it comes
To biology.
Hey straight people,
Stop your
discrimination.
You’re pushing for
Mass extinction.
Hey straight people,
We are who we are.
Because of you,
We carry a scar.
Hey straight people,
We just want to be happy.
We are different, odd,
And sometimes tacky.
Hey straight people,
We can love who we want.
From the coast of California
To the forest of Vermont.
Hey straight people,
Remove the barrier.
Your religious conviction,
Nothing is scarier,
Hey straight people,
We never hassle you.
You choose to fight,
Hate, and argue.
Hey straight girls,
Leave us alone.
Keep your butt in your
Straight zone.
Turbo1904 ?
Ancient evil rises from the grave,
Blackened souls lurk with vile intent.
Here to ravage Earth and man enslave,
So they can bask in our discontent.
Death runs amok across the land,
Billions die in less than a week.
A mass extinction is soon at hand,
With no repentance at all to seek.
The execution of man and beast,
The whole world pays for all our sins.
Nations topple from West to East,
God bows his head and Satan wins.
Why weren't we able to maintain peace?
Those reasons remain a mystery.
With no one left to pay our lease,
The house of man lost in history.
in earths long 'daze' of...
evolutionary change life has
heard five 'geo-logic-calls' for a...
few species to not change...
in the 'darkened' days of
massive population decreases...
in answer to the logic calls for life...
to exist on a 'time isle' planet where-in
days be as endless cycles of difference...
monday --->
monday night - be called the 'ordovician mass extinction'
tuesday --->
tueday night - be the 'devonian extinction'
wednesday --->
wednesday night - be the 'permian extinction'
thursday --->
thursday night - be the 'triassic extinction'
friday --->
friday night - be the 'cretecous extintion'
saturday --->
saturday night - be human 'party time'
stans sand
Everyday I feel less connected,
Less connected to humanity,
Drifting away, I'm isolated,
Losing whatever they call sanity,
My heart aches with the more that I learn,
People are so indulged in a big lie,
Manipulated into closing their minds,
Turning a blind eye,
To the torture and cruelty,
To the greed and poverty,
Happening before us,
Blissfully unaware of the bad impact,
Made from not doing anything,
Closing their minds, their ears to the fact,
That we are causing a mass extinction ,
The is humanity's condition,
Humanity's affliction.
Humanity's decision,
Humanity's distinction,
Where is the recognition?
Ignorance is destroying lives,
Ignorance is creating lives,
Ignorance is your life,
Only you can change your life.
Environment Pollution, Global Warming,
Climate Change, Mass Extinction.
nature suffering, in my heart I suffer with her too
in your heart natures plight, you suffer
you might not know it but it is killing you.
killing you, me, all life suffering facing,
facing, but mentally blinded to mass extinction.
can you not see?
symbiotic relationships, do you know, do you?
how many lives live on you, in you, how many
forms of life keep you alive, you, me, us, who?
yes you too, all fauna needs bacteria in, and on
our bodies, for both to survive, to stay alive/
can you not feel?
flora, our symbiotic partner breathes for us,
and all fauna, yes all, inclusive, we are fauna.
breathing for flora, yet we kill it!
kill, slaughter it by fourteen million acres a year,
in one-year 56'655.99 km² of the UK denuded!
can you not empathize?
scaremongering? yes, for we all should be very scared!
our grandchildren's children very scared for them!
bar a minority the world population blind, blind to facts,
climate change, look out your window, see the truth,
the truth, nature suffering, help her, now, act!
can you not help? you can plant a tree give life a chance!
In the flow of time to eternity
currents of the river called present where we are
will churn in the future whirlpool of uncertainty,
in its swirl everything known will disappear.
From its depth a new sense of life will float,
sail to the senseless shore of the machine age,
navigated by human robot,
feelings lying dead in artificial intelligence cage.
The expanding universe will shrink,
as space travel will take man
to the distant galaxy’s brink,
and the earth will be visited by the alien.
Global warming will melt all terrestrial ice,
ocean will invade land in times dark,
for its actions mankind will pay the price.
Someone will invent modern Noah’s ark.
Future breakthroughs in gene manipulation
will make in humans leviathan brains,
rogue neurons will design route of mass extinction,
for all the people will then turn into Frankensteins.
October 30, 2019
Contest : I Sense Tomorrow is the Future
Sponsor : Sheri Fresonke Harper
Today a youth of the world stood up,
Stood up against fat money cats,
And stared them down with words made of real,
Accountable ecological facts,
About how the fat future of money is ending,
A future without any trees,
How mass extinction is occurring today,
With cash from the coal power disease,
And she stood alone, shaking against hate,
Forcing fu***rs like Trump to run,
Back to his hordes of redneck support,
Of religious who think he’s “The One”,
Today a small girl, who hates crowds of people,
Stood alone and said what she said,
Demanding we all stand and give back her hope,
And I stood because she is our friend.
From Eden to the outhouse in just a few thousand years
Blooming weapons of mass extinction
From the seeds of our many gifts.
A volley of nuclear warheads is coming
within a generation or so.
The wealthy and powerful will sashay
to heated bunkers, stocked full of tomorrow.
While above, the serfs break dance
like ants in a boiling plutonium bath.
There'll be no Jesus balm to soothe their nuclear rash.
Eden forever poisoned by the oily ego of man.
Most people in denial of world pollution,
are they blindfolded, what other reasons?
as messenger,
I beg all heed!
mechanically, chemically, killing life,
seas, oceans, lakes, rivers, hear nature scream,
in the process of a mass extinction,
do not stay in denial, shed your blindfolds, please!
I am a messenger, harken,
natures word's, her truth I do speak,
humanity,
she cries for it!
Fragmented Verse Poetry Contest - Sponsored by Broken Wings- Dear Heart
6/24/18
WILDLIFE SUFFERS
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clearing woodland! really?
makes me feel so teary.
right now my eyes, bleary,
wildlife suffers
once, all mankind, hunters,
nothing left, no grunters!
human beings, shunters!
bald land coiffures
for sustenance, gathered
no land back then, shattered
now the land is battered
us all duffers
much wildlife now extinct
i can't be more succinct
nature won't be hoodwinked
she has buffers
pollution is hurting!
in denial, skirting!
mass extinction, flirting!
closing shutters
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You guys in the USA, do you really pronounce really as re al ly, or real ly?
A
WARNING
CONCRETE THE TREE OF LIFE IT'S NOT
Inspired by our self-inflicted sufferings, natures too,
&
Carlos Trevino
~~~
what is right... or wrong...
nature knows not the difference
the fault lies with man...
there was once order
spring... summer... autumn... winter
in which we persist...
we... in denial...
nature can see were blind...
blinkered... polluting...
there is no malice
for now... nature has no choice
righting our wrongs
wilful... our doings...
she will... don't doubt... right them all
inadvertently...
we suffer
consequences
of our own making
why can't we understand
we all face a mass extinction
that's not what nature had in mind
evolution... or where only the fittest will survive
now enhanced... climate warming now decides who lives
who
dies
the tree of life is losing branches... we can no longer
DENY
unless we stop polluting
all life on earth will
...DIE...
CONCRETE THE TREE OF LIFE IS NOT
why has the human race never learned?
for millennia now nature it has spurned!
from the day of realisation, we could think,
mother nature suffered, always in the pink!
millennia on, natures' fighting for our live's!
as to who, what, or if any life survives?
an answer, based on continued pollution!
nature tried but failed, now has a solution.
instigated decades back, mass extinction!
believe, climate warming, it is not fiction!
there are some unanswered questions,
yet still unheeded, natures suggestions!
recycle, stop pollution, simple solution
2018 let's all make it a new year resolution!
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