Spring Pollution Poems

from a sweetened 
green spring
ripples of
sanguineous salt
a mixing bowl
brings forth
oceans and trees
cans, cigarettes
stains on carpets
like bedsores

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~ To the melody of 
      Over the River 
    and through the Woods ~


  Over...

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Endless Thirst

The world is shaking, 
but I am not. 
The world is afraid, 
but fear, 
feeds itself... 

The sky is blue, 
and the clouds are...

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Someone has sprinkled fairy dust all about
It seems this yellow stuff that’s coating all
‘Tis the annual springtime pollen settling,
If I could stop sneezing, I’d give...

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I watched a sparrow go mad
Right in front of me

It charged a red bush like a bull to a matador
To build a spring nest in...

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Sumer is icumen in
a modern English translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

This is an update of an old classic for those of us who suffer with...

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Aerial dribs and drabs, a sidewalk canvas
As a toddler chases bubbles her mother blows
       from confectionary soap,
Fluttering fluidity in...

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A tiny fish in a polluted pond struggled to breathe.
She is suddenly scooped up with a batch of the stinky water.
It is poured off her,...

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The gush water in early spring
 From the rivers that run down the valley of mine.
 I shall call she, because she is like mother...

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Spring sunshine false security.
New life weak, lacks impunity!
Relying on instinct, not ingenuity!
Weather lacking continuity!
Fickle, tantamount to cruelty!

Naturalist blame human lunacy,
some agree with their importunity
Some folks,...

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A haibun reply:

I envy you, hope it has been inspirational for you, and reading your last haiku I think it has! My concern, or argument...

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My doctor loves the birds and bees
And anything that makes me sneeze
Perfumed employees my heart tease
And indoor plants cause me to wheeze

My doctor says a...

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POLLUTED HEART

Thirsty soil parches in scorching summer
Sucks liquid crystal drops of sparkling rain
Stores in deep aquifer pure groundwater
Brought to surface, pure it doesn’t remain
From humans...

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Will nature survive pollution?
There is every chance that it will,	
thinking, will it, makes me feel ill!
Humans do have the solution,
and should make the resolution,
Now, no...

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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...

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