Time Warming Poems

by c. geeplay

Beyond the city limits and the massive 
power plants outside of Los Angeles,  
Moscow, Mumbai, Monrovia, Havana,  
Burkina ---destructive force is...

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Today I got a dream
The world was ending
Global warming stroked up
Everyone rushing for the rescue
Stampede produced all over the cities 

Roads were blocked
And everyone's head...

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Asked an NPR journalist
of U.S. soldiers
damaged in Afghanistan
direct fire
for one hundred everydays,

"Was it worth it?"

"I can't answer that question."

She asks more hesitantly again
of another veteran,

"Was...

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Overly familiar with her defiance
patterns of fetal alcohol confusion,
neuro-systemic habits of resistance,

I, the consummate ecofeminist,
was sure my daughter felt
I was shutting wounded Ivy out
when she...

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A cold wintry day in mid-April
The weatherman says it's uncommon,
Temperatures ought to be much higher
For this time of the year.
Storms sweeping across the south
Millions of...

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Long before sun light
was born from starkness

Long before Earth's dawn
broiled unsteady hot star fire

Long before She filled
Her scarlet mind
with Yang's high hills,
time was this love

This...

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Be not complacent 'bout dire global warming...

Thus spake Zarathustra 
necessitating donning layered clothing
in tandem, especially trumpeting   
being with wise mind and economical
exercising usage...

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My mind comes alive during the witching hour
Sensuous and sharp the lines begin to flow,
While themes and phrases like blooms flower

In the garden, now dark,...

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1.
Rumor has it on heavens above
Among the angels’ divine sphere
That God after very much though  
Decided in man’s life to interfere   ...

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How did the jungle get here?
Did it come on a train
like an old time circus
          rolling...

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Reduce reuse recycle
aim to have zero waste,
we need to tackle climate change
or global warming must be faced

If folk are willing to walk
car share or ride...

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The Rising of the Ocean
The North Atlantic Ocean's rising 
Glaciers are melting as are ice caps 
Global warming wants some refining.

Sadly Earth is craving devising
Planets...

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Big Job 

There's a big job breaking out
Time for smelling salts and focus
There is no magic wand this time
No top-hat hocus pocus 

Time to wheel...

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In the beginning there were cold rocks with
painted animals that chose which way you’d run
toward or away from tomorrow’s undoing
in search of what the present...

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Glory days have passed on
We enjoyed every second then
For we were as free as could be

We live for you, not for us
We spend our time...

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