Category Archives: Environmental Poems

Mother

Our mother has always neen nurturing Caring and loving us all Providing us air and water to share Her wisdom was always on call Our so called leaders Most of them are Arrogant beyond the sky Its all about money … Continue reading

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Water is life

We have lost all respect For the natural world For our forests and oceans Where so much is hurled Forests are logged out Slash and burned down And the timber sold off Will not earn us a crown The water … Continue reading

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The elephant and the other great beasts and a special thought for iceland 76

From wildness and abundance In the wilderness of cause Ancestral shadows flourish And to some a diapause A wistful inclination Of the enemy abroad Whose arrogance and ignorance We battle to afford As size goes we are Truly a dominating … Continue reading

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Dr Birute

The worlds true primate angel A scholar of the wild Clearly her enlightenment Begun as a child Her grasp and her awareness A perception of the great Acquaintanceship with the red apes And there can be no debate This women … Continue reading

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The Orangutans lament

These noble souls their suffering Is greater than the need To profit from the palm oil Planted for the greed That extends across Malaysia And Indonesia too The magnates with their mansions And their hearts badly askew Tearing great magical … Continue reading

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The predicament is growing

The “Farley Mowat” crew One Oona Layolle A captain on manoevres Trying to Avert the gaze of artisanal fishermen Who are laying gillnets Illegally, they do Believe their livelihoods Are being ruined But its all tied in with The Totoaba … Continue reading

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Human intervention

Wilderness in oceans Are fast becoming rare Human intervention Ofcourse is everywhere There really isnt anything thats Measured Sadly we Over fish over pollute Humans apparently Are any thing but innocuous They show little restraint Everything is to excess Everywhere … Continue reading

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Planet Earth from the perspective of the indigenous peoples

Actists defenders protectors Of the land More of them are being killed Is it hard to understand They are the heartfelt warriors Their morality they share Often abused and maltreated And martyred everywhere Anguished and ansgt ridden Victimized they be … Continue reading

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They never thought it through

Whats behind it They had motive There were profits by the score It was light and therefore adaptable Like nothing else before It ticked a lot of boxes Manufacturing cost Economically speaking Was good and so we lost Our senses … Continue reading

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A testament to the intolerant that is the now

A testament to the intolerant The remorseless throw aways The compassionless society And the now thankless phase The unmindful and the spiteful Whose culpability Is out there in the ocean And is brought right home to me The shoreline as … Continue reading

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A warning that needs to be heeded

Communities do not matter Caveats overturned The conscience of the people They can just be burned Some see just how ill-omened These pipe lines are and they Fight to protect the environment All along the way Arrogance and ignorance Are … Continue reading

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Beyond the point of no return

A chaotic state is apparent Irregularity A slovenliness of spirit For the wild intricacy Human intervention is a shambles I can feel Undisciplined and unruly A rampage now so real We have a moral weakness A senility of soul Letting … Continue reading

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Shanay Timpishku(boiled with the heat of the sun)

In the Mayantuyacu Sanctuary Where the Ashaninka be In the Huanuco high forest A tributary Of the great soul AMAZON A boiling river does Flows 4 miles through the forest The earth arteries they buzz A waterfall and massive pools … Continue reading

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TAR SANDS From Alberta to Stroud with love

Having plans in place.for the catastophe They said it wouldnt happen but it does Remember all the problems with the pipeliness Through America DAPL Had that enormous buzz That saw the government pit itself Against veterans, locals and the indigenous … Continue reading

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The old gate

coming upon the old gate Well-used and well worn A portal to a secret garden Made more beautiful by a dawn Sky above so peaceful An Expression Of love and care That Resolutely stands fast In the morning air Harbouring … Continue reading

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Akashinga (the brave ones)

They look the part They act the part They are all heart and they Are the women they are the brave ones The Akashinga pay Attention to the animals That some would hunt and kill Uprightness and honesty And integrity … Continue reading

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Lentils (wild fields Yes Please)

Vandina Shiva Has the right idea lentils of course One has to fear The so called “clearfield” GM crop That Canada grows And Ought to stop Its arrogance really Dressed suspiciously Talking up abundance ingloriously Providing some wealth For farmers … Continue reading

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Lentils

Understanding Of Nature Of soils and of need Seem to go out the window When it comes down to feed The people thats when ofcourse Genetics is played Thats the card of the moment Where profits are laid Fairly and … Continue reading

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Sand mining

The largest economic sector In India today Is its constuction industry That has almost blown away Any semblance of reality Around major cities where Huge numbers of new houses Are being built, and there The need for sand is massive … Continue reading

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The trek

The most ancient and the largest Fresh water lake Baikal rift zone where The earth crust is pulling apart the scare With mountains all around it Its vastness blows the mind Thousands of plants and animals Just everywhere you find … Continue reading

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Muritz through the seasons

The embodiment of all you ever saw Or wish to see The backbone and the marrow and the core Is adequately Provided by our mother the creator Essentially Great forests lakes and rivers And wild life good and free Muritz … Continue reading

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Daffodils

Cloaks of vernal chlorophyll From my friend the daffodil Who emerges with such meaning To open up in Spring Each bloom as a rule Gives me its sweet call And with utter harmony Its honesty does sing a consensus of … Continue reading

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OOSTVAARDERSPLASSEN LELYSTAD

Poor judgement Created an anomaly A place where re wilding Was expected to be Sloppy thinking Lack of vision A false dawn we got 22 square kilometres And its going to pot A National Park On re-claimed land The Netherlands … Continue reading

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Lesser Celandine

Moisture wetness dewiness Where Ficaria Verna thrives A harbinger of Spring itself A wild plant that survives Forming mats in woodlands Threatening to control In the Buttercup family It has a powerfful role Called the lesser celandine But noxious one … Continue reading

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When We place too much emphasis on science and making profit

An irreverence for Nature A stony indifference to What was infact imagination And Science taking the view A Matter of course Perhaps disbelief But so Felt that arrogant streak The mothers of all mothers taken for granted She Responded by … Continue reading

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St Kilda

Its a heritage site, believe it do Out of the Atlantic the cliffs they ring true Amazingly climb up into the sky Great sea stacs that are very high Undeniably enduring they Are the home to birds That all make … Continue reading

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Adani go back to India and stay there

Gifted the great barrier reef 1400 miles Along Australia’s North East Coast And it ticks all the dials Some 3000 different corals Drawing souls from near and far A wonder of our world today The Barrier Reef a star Among … Continue reading

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Our legacy -we were the fracking generation

An invasion Is now happening The fracking clan are here Gas and oil are after Our blood and it is clear When the coppers and the government Actually get their way Life as we know in England We all will … Continue reading

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Winter in Berkhamsted at 3.21pm

There is light in the sky this afternoon Streams of grey and cream The sun is breaking through the cloud Assembling its gleam A stillness, branches sleeping Rooves still decked in snow The Rosemary recovering From the onslaught a while … Continue reading

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The Carmichael Mine STOP ADANI in their tracks

I just see inexpediency And inadvisability It just feels so unseemly Inopportune And untimely In Mundra thats in India A coal power plant was built Adani were the company Who have denied all guilt They overstepped their mark we hear … Continue reading

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