Shades of Green
Spring arrives on queue
Verdant colours warm the soul –
Wonders of nature
Picture Frames
Turner et al paint
Landscapes of life are then housed –
Framed for reflection
Trains of Thought
Then human advance
Nature abused through the ages –
How is this progress?
Skeleton Staff
Sustenance lessens
So life withers on the vine –
Mankind declining
The Ending
Far away planet
First signs of life have begun –
We wasted our chance
Intention
Invention
Intervention
—Inferno or supernal?
Tons and tons of perilous water roaring to the ocean
Thanks to fission without vision—
Is it time to reverse the chain reaction?
Utopianism
Skepticism
Consumerism
All kinds of -ism
But where is
Optimism?
Neon god
Chat god
We are God
Who else to tell us
We are flawed?
God willing, not until
the next invention
The blue planet unfolded the canvas of primal beauty
of the unique dot of singularity in the infinite cosmos,
revolved around sun, its star, spinning astral dreams,
until on evolution trail hostile species of man arrived.
The unspoilt nature once thrived in realm of splendor
in harmony with the tenets of stable innate equilibrium.
As the pace of wanton exploitation marches on and on
it is now crossing unheeded the sustainability rubicorn.
The creeping swarm of ingesting insect called progress
devours the green blanket spread out over the ages,
constructs the toxic greenhouse on the planet instead,
extreme climate events track global warming trajectory.
Glaciers and ice sheets melt, the cryosphere shrinks,
the rise of sea-level unprecedented in human history
makes the ingress of oceans on-land a future reality.
Time would then come to invent modern Noah’s ark.
November 22, 2019
Contest : All About The Environment
Sponsor : Richard Lamoureux
(Did not place)
December 23, 2019
Contest : Second Chance Contest
Sponsor : Richard Lamoureux
Eyes turned to future;
the cactus guards her treasures...
with her spiked armour.
Satan in his subtility
Tricks in predictability
Cast tangled web forthwright
The Son's sustainability
Touched man's vulnerability
With His powerful might
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