On the SerengetiWhy are there so many steps to reach certainty?
To be honest, I wish my roots would let me leave calmly
So much grows fast around me;
I feel like the only tree
Trying to break through the canopy
Searching for sunlight feverishly
But in this shade, I can not see what's hurting me
I just feel the cuts once again...
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Categories:
hurt, natural disasters, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Within the Whispered Wind
Within the whispered wind, bumble bees
fly their syncopated figure eights.
Praying mantises fall to their knees
…within the whispered winds.
Rich blessings float from heavenly gates
and set kissing dragonflies at ease
before all worldly sorrow abates.
Sunday psalms sung softly in the breeze
settle where the flock congregates.
Hallowed ambience exudes heartsease
…within the whispered wind....
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Categories:
inspirational, natural disasters, religious,
Form: Roundel
Each inch of my nicheThe whirlwind rolled in rings at the eyewall,
Wild gale blew through the open tropical field.
I'd forgotten to close the windows tight,
And the ensuing rain inundated each inch of my niche.
The hurricane hurriedly stripped the veld of its peace.
Dry air pacified the expanse of the grassland,
The massive flood drained into a sunken cesspool,
My thoughts swayed to...
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Categories:
natural disasters, nature, peace,
Form: Free verse
Her Body, The Battlegroundshe screamed into the camera
and became a voice of millions
someone called her a child of wealth
while someone called her fury fake
it all came from the mouth of an ill man
who would sit on his porch, almost at the death door
for how long should a fool ignore, the capitalism and greed?
he lost his shame when he...
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Categories:
natural disasters, nature, woman,
Form: Free verse
The Great Collapsechildren dying in the global south
we cannot drink oil and gas
coral reefs are dying in the ocean
we cannot eat coal and live
species are facing extinction
he keeps filling his vaults while
children starve from hunger
and diseases spreading like wildfire
this poet finds it preposterous
why should i be afraid of the one in wrong?
to say out loud their...
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Categories:
natural disasters, nature,
Form: Free verse
Not a Hoax"the oceans are becoming more salty
our planet is turning into a complete gas chamber"-
to someone i sound like i am a case of immediate help
who needs serious knowledge on what a religious text has to say
you see the more the merrier is not the right saying
when it is breaking the natural balance
oceans are turning salty,...
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Categories:
natural disasters, nature,
Form: Free verse
The Political Circusthere is a clown in every political house
he who denies the climate crisis
and calls it a "hoax"
there is a clown in every political house
presenting his circus show
to please his own kind
there is a clown in every political house
who loves to be at balls and parties
thus betraying his own nation...
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Categories:
natural disasters,
Form: Free verse
Helpless in Crisisin one dream this poet saw a horrific scene
where i was sitting on top of the house
and yet water had reached that high
submerging everything in its way
in the same dream,
i saw a child getting washed away
while his mother screaming for help, ready to jump
to rescue but is held back by others
this poet tried to jump
but...
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Categories:
natural disasters, nature,
Form: Free verse
Defendersthey flooded the towns with screams
that was louder than voice of their leaders
they flooded the towns with their signboards
calling out for help in the global south
the indigenous living deep in the forests
fighting everyday with a giant
with force so brutal that breaks their legs
but they still stand up and protect the land
the rich continues to get...
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Categories:
natural disasters, nature,
Form: Free verse
Mother and Child: Part-IIthe little child with innocence in his eyes
trying to calm his mother down
as tears keep rolling down her eyes
he continues his search for food in the mud
he did found something he could share
but its just one rotten potato covered in soil
its crazy how he has to live with this
when he has barely spent half a...
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Categories:
natural disasters, nature,
Form: Free verse
Mother and Child: Part-Ishe kept on trying to calm her child down
crossing the floodwaters to reach the shore
while she held him high above her head
she almost drowned in that raging flow of water
she kept on trying to calm her child down
keeping her hopes high for the sake of child
to see him live a future she knows is not...
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Categories:
natural disasters, nature,
Form: Free verse
Aftermath: Part-IIIFamilies searching for their loved ones
After the mud has settled to the ground
And water is flowing at a normal pace
But all that left are the little memories
In forms of clothing, pearls or
In their decayed form as a skeleton...
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Categories:
natural disasters, nature,
Form: Free verse
Mystic 2025Mystic 2025
Poem
Lionel Derbyshire.
The day before on the night..
We packed for Mystic July 2025
We told each another on the phone..
Of what we going to do.
We going to brouhaha and hoopla hoo-hah
The trip to camp Mystic we had in awe
Come we go.
We going to quarrel and inspire
And we will reasure..
Our excited smiley faces rapture..
For the freedom We...
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Categories:
natural disasters, america, best friend, cry,
Form: Free verse
Fury Breaks Its SilenceFury Breaks Its Silence
From South to North Pole, and beyond
Glaciers crack, not by time,
but by the toxins we’ve forced into the sky.
Each gas, each smoke trail,
a fingerprint on the Earth’s rising pulse.
The Amazon chokes on fire,
not lightning-born but sparked by greed,
Its breath turned to ash by axes and ambition,
It's silence now, a scream.
On Andaman’s edge,...
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Categories:
natural disasters, nature, peace,
Form: Free verse
Earthquakeearthquake shakes the ground
the ocean boils and hisses
tsunami threatens
...
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Categories:
natural disasters,
Form: Haiku
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