JD Russell

It’s the end of the world as we know it

by JD Russell

Saturday 10th June 2023 4:13 pm

New World

Morning dawning

Emerge, embark, proceed

Life prospers only furtively

Evolves

Nature,

Peaceful, serene,

Complex doting mother

Beautiful, a world harmonised.

Nurtures

Climate,

Changing, warming

Heatwaves, fires, freezing, droughts,

Nature's response to inaction.

Flash floods

Humans

Raging, burning

Denied self-indulgence

Our endlessly flawed potential,

Absurd

Pollute

Defile, deplete

Nature contemplates death

Suffocating Earth's fragile breath

Despoil

Doomsday

Riots arise

World's finality near

Ruinous turmoil, and despair

Too late

🌷(7)

6 verse Cinquain

◄ If They Can, Then So Can You

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Comments

Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh

Sun 11th Jun 2023 18:18

Thanks JD.
Despite my wanting to look after the earth and nature in general, I often wonder if we're being gaslit by the criminals - EG. UK water companies in charge of the current omnishambles?

M.C. Newberry

Sun 11th Jun 2023 17:26

I often wonder whether the advent of a 24/7 global media
leans towards reporting events of a type that have always
been happening, in days when communications were hardly
instant or even interested in/focused on the weather and other far-away places as a matter of course (as is the case today).
One of the most devastating natural polluting effects on the
atmosphere was the vast volcanic eruption that destroyed
Krakatoa, causing a huge tsunami and a blanket of ash that
blotted out the sun for a huge distance. One can only imagine
how today's global media would report such a natural effect
on the Earth's climate. The climate change hyperbole would probably
choose to ignore such an event. After
all, there's no money in any chance of containing/controlling natural phenomena.

Russell Jacklin

Sat 10th Jun 2023 20:08

Thanj you

keith jeffries

Sat 10th Jun 2023 18:06

A poem which is born in the age in which we live, put together succinctly almost as a litany which asks for a response. A good poem, well crafted and well thought out.
Thank you for this,
Keith

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