THEN CAME MANInto this world came modern man
and to exploit it he began.
One day he dug beneath the ground
and lots of black rock there he found.
He said, ‘What can I do with this
for it seems to be quite useless?’
Soon he learnt that the rock would burn
and easy profit he could earn. ...
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Categories:
earth, money, pollution,
Form: Rhyme
You'll get Yours -- Tooth for Tooth12 when I wrote this, from the perspective of a mushroom.
My gills grasping at air, but the grass is not too far;
My scales glimmering stupidly to shine through watered tar.
And in the gaseous tarmac world, I shine here far too bright,
And oh, the air, too stale if for my gills to get it right.
I long...
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Categories:
pollution, bible, environment, nature, planet,
Form: Couplet
Environmental Concerns
Ponder the old pestles and mortars
used at times in apothecaries,
older drug emporium quarters.
Some of the porous surface was shared
by grinding both mortar and pestle
ending up in medicines prepared.
Do today's microplastics alarm you?
Minute particles endanger us all;
microwavable repercussions? Whew!...
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Categories:
11th grade, pollution,
Form: Tristich
Doom's Date - Mar 5Doomsday’s dismal dawn, in the deep distance,
Is our dusk, the diadem of decadence;
Daunting and depthless, a dark and doleful dirge
Deems this dungeon of demons due for death...
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Categories:
pollution, death, environment, funeral, grave,
Form: Alliteration
Changing TackEnrolling as a pirate is much harder than it seems,
You’ll need to speak in present tense and chase your wildest dreams.
Well, once you’ve trained a parrot and been measured for your hook,
You have to plough through pages of the health and safety book.
The pointed end’s the bow, whilst your rudder’s near the aft,
Our crow’s...
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Categories:
anger, boat, endurance, pollution,
Form: Rhyme
The Withering GraceA Closing Reflection
Is it not true that we look for forgiveness
for our feigned ignorance's
For the hypocrisies we allowed because they served us?
We ask to be forgiven
Not because we changed
But because we are afraid of what’s coming.
As if the Earth were a mother
Who always welcomes us home
Even when we’ve burned the field.
But forgiveness is no longer...
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Categories:
pollution, america, earth, future, journey,
Form: Free verse
Is geo-opoly poisioning the world'Its filtering down.' Over the streets and open ground.' From
Clouds to fog formation, just forget about coal burnt waste inahalation.' Do not bother with I C E car emissions
This is a ( total war condition ) carried out in hidden labs
Our ecosystem is now reserved for the slab.' In morgue
Unknown?? in slithering and stealth.' Its...
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Categories:
pollution, change, community, corruption, education,
Form: Rhyme
L E Z; badly said'Low Emission zone disinformation..Is a factor on sinage
Thats the situation.' First a magistrate in Bedford flagged
Not fine, these signs that have ruined life for many.' Also
Wasted so much time.' Yesterday Noel Wilcox, Royally won'
At the so named courts in London judgement on veracity I
See it had to come.' So now if you've been hit no...
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Categories:
education, endurance, pollution, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Save them that you hurt by hurting the worldYou’ll kill your only dog because you don’t remember the sound of a bullet like him.
The sea rises
The sea consumes
The sea doesn’t give back
You’ll fear a never coming fire after you hear your cousin burnt alive and hide from the smoke you don’t inhale.
The sea rises
The sea consumes
The sea doesn’t give back
When you looked...
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Categories:
pollution, earth, environment, natural disasters,
Form: Free verse
Whispering treesListening through the surrounding
trees.
Sound of whispers heard from a slight breeze.
Cries heard in the distance, as the breeze
comforts The leaves.
Words joined together while starting to hear, how
the leaves Fear the airs no-more clear, feeling for
the leaves
as-if nobody believes.
In a still small voice it whistles an sings.
The song of hope lies within the trees, as the...
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Categories:
pollution, abuse, anger, art, butterfly,
Form: Free verse
PresentWas angry at something
Played football
Alone among the hiding birds
The evening sky
Coughing colors
Allergic to the grey forms
the factories cause
My mind lazily
grazing upon the
festicied crops
I guess this is
What present looks like
No one gives a at all
Building skycrapers
Above our heads
One earthquake,
And it all falls.......
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Categories:
pollution, analogy, change, future, perspective,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
We were all told that this day was comingWe were all told that this day was coming,
when we'd no longer hear the bees a-humming,
when we could no longer trust that the fields
would ever again produce their requisite yields.
But who had expected it to be this soon
before the promised second coming?...
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Categories:
pollution, earth day, environment, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Do You Ever Stop and Look Around?We live in a beautiful world
So lucky we are, nature gives
but we take far too much
nature as I speak is crying.
Go for a walk away from every day life
look up into the sky, mountains a-high
breath taking soar high up on most sides
some are snow covered, others we see green.
Grass and trees fill their slopes...
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Categories:
pollution, animal, beauty, earth, life,
Form: Free verse
What will it take
What will it take?
People taking stock
admit their failings
try to redress the damage done
but it's too late ~
Our planet clearly violated
it's easy to see
Beyond shame and guilt
there's you and me
Posted on March 6, 2025...
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Categories:
nature, planet, pollution, world,
Form: Free verse
Echoes of a Silent ShoreEchoes of the Silent Shore
Garbage, raw sewage, needles,
syringes, food wrappers.
Plastic, cans, bottles, trash,
oily sand, old fishing line.
I stand on the shore and I see
waste and destruction everywhere.
If nothing is done, the only sound
will be the waves crashing into a
silent shore.
...
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Categories:
pollution,
Form: Free verse
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