Science Natural Disasters Poems

Earth Eulogy

By Mark D. Stucky
She was a good planet,
put to death in her prime
by a pandemic of people.
Homo-sapiens was a disease
with mutating and metastasizing
technological and...

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I had a step-father who a classified genius
He was a science teacher and member of the Audubon Society
He earned teacher of the state award at...

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What is born in the thermals of a barren land
A spiral of destruction sublime

(I feel its power seeping into the ground)

Across the seas, it comes...

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Wild fires signify the world is burning

Pollution ravaging the seas show the tides not turning,

Pesticides pollute the air and earth and what makes it worse

Is...

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Just when life was getting back to normal. 
We get smacked with another load of bull. 
It dragged us in with strong magnetic pull. 
Removing...

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Horrible blobs
crawling on the radar
threatening detonations
punctuating torpid oppression
promising a merciless deluge

Robotic insects invading
Wrathful humans devolving
Nature devouring
Order dissipating

Ambient lyrical drones
bathing the dystopic landscape
inculcating visions of an...

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Poems about the Coronavirus II


This World's Joy
(anonymous Middle English lyric, circa early 14th century AD)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Winter awakens all my care
as leafless...

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It didn't need to grow wings, it floats on the breeze.

Or...

If you don't believe science, you might as well pray to idols....

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The silence of time passing goes unnoticed
in the confusion of the moment
As I hear the internal clock of frustration
tic through the last vestige of reality
fought...

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Locked up, on lockdown.
Doctors on board,
Polices on roads.
Fighting against,brute devil.
Think about the future,
Vanishing wonders of science.
Inevitable truth of life
So! Where are those people,
Who thinks to...

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Not-So-Heroic Couplets
by Donald Trump
care of Michael R. Burch 

To outfox the pox: 
kill yourself first, with Clorox!

And since death is the goal, 
mainline Lysol! 

No...

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Caution is one of the best medications for viruses

Opportunities for fear are plentiful but must be avoided

Resist and fight the temptation of greed and hoarding

Observance...

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Both Jing and Ling
Perfect match of nature
Are walking in Wuhan City,China 
Have hand in hand 
Before the king of death
The Corona Virus attacks on the...

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Davenport Tomorrow
by Michael R. Burch

Davenport tomorrow ...
all the trees stand stark-naked in the sun.

Now it is always summer
and the bees buzz in cesspools,
adapted to a...

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Some don't give a damn about Global Warming;
Look with all six senses of the inner primate;
All the while man's theories swarming,
See the ruin and waste...

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