Category Archives: Environmental Poems

The sickness of ocean users

We have seen the beginning How long to the end The emergence of madness The countdown my friend The embryonic nature of man The light of day And our wonderful plan The end time is coming Hearts ceasing eyes closing … Continue reading

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Will we all be rounded up (before you know it)

Science for a better life For me thats hard to see Its out there on their website Sustainablity Bayers innovation (monsatan)products too The creeping hand of modern man Who has the the gall to do The really weirdest of things … Continue reading

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The Alaska Story a true story

A forest of Spruce and Hemlock Lay behind me Break up on its way through The snow gray Hard packed with the sun About emerging And there in front of me A wolf did lay In one of George’s traps … Continue reading

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Wild Roses

The delicate pink hues That clamber skywards Over thorny stems Fragrant are their blossoms An adornement to the Autumn gems That throw their colour And aromatic scent into the Warming air The sweet briar loves heart fire Eglantine be mine … Continue reading

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The Ash Tree Celtic tree of now 18/2-17/3

The Ash grabs all the light It can Its pinnate leaves Provide a plan A dampish base A lime rich soil Whether Oak or Ash It seems to boil Down to Ash when the liming Grows Where Dogwood and Privet … Continue reading

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A truly compassionate fisherman

Algal blooms Produce bacteria harmful To us all And one fisherman discovered A turtle And what did befall This truly beautiful creature Was the clearly uncomfortable plight Swimming in a polluted sense How could that be right A fisherman who … Continue reading

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Rising Shiva’s abode

From melt water In the Himalayas At Gangotrig we see The mighty Ganga Rise up on its journey to the sea Through Bangladesh and India This tumultuous display Rolling ever onwards To the great Bengal bay Surrounded by so many … Continue reading

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“Under the sky”

Under the sky The once peaceful heaven The colours of morning Once as blue as the sea Now streaked up with Aerosols And as bugs we scatter No matter We stutter For no longer we be In freedom no tragically … Continue reading

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Repositories for nuclear waste storage in the UK

The mail has mooted Plans afoot To dispose of Sellafields vile radioaactive horror The tories sad denial Gullible communities Preferably far away In the North of England Where the hoi polloi Now stay Thats the snobbish banter They hope will … Continue reading

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The little yellow hammer’s message after BREXIT

A yellow hammer just a little bird From long ago Nature created its refrain Its song we all loved so Flitting across wide habitats Into landscapes where Every little bunting Just cast away despair Poets from a former time Noted … Continue reading

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Turtles and their destiny

I find it hard to contemplate Decisions that are made To overide the natural world Where evolution laid An existential promise Instictively that see A vibrational distinction Where sea turtles choose to be A private beach in Florida On the … Continue reading

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The infamous English mud

In the cover of darkness A phantom ship sails From Hinkley Point Power To Penarth in Wales The good ship “SLOEBER” (A puppy of sorts) That can open her belly And share all She sports 2000 tonnes of nuclear mud … Continue reading

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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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