Irksome heat under collars, blue and white alike
The family smogged over by a carbonised methane cloud
The home morphing into a greenhouse fountain of gas
Outside your window a battle front sprawls without frontier or ownership
A tree, a maternal ally, a casualty, floats by on water shunted by a distant iceberg
Stand up, leave the car at home and run to its aid
Grasp that ally by its horns
Resuscitating carbon capture and store
Carbon on the menu: cut down its choice by two thirds
and not another tree in nine years
Contesting your mother’s existence,
with the poorer nations that need support
Make your intention a reality
Now walk that talk
It’s getting cold
Burn some more fossils
or put on another layer?
You know the answer
Plant your allies
Nov 4, 2021
Nov 4, 2021 at 7:18 PM UTC
Irksome heat under collars, blue and white alike
The family smogged over by a carbonised methane cloud
The home morphing into a greenhouse fountain of gas
Outside your window a battle front sprawls without frontier or ownership
A tree, a maternal ally, a casualty, floats by on water shunted by a distant iceberg
Stand up, leave the car at home and run to its aid
Grasp that ally by its horns
Resuscitating carbon capture and store
Carbon on the menu: cut down its choice by two thirds
and not another tree in nine years
Contesting your mother’s existence,
with the poorer nations that need support
Make your intention a reality
Now walk that talk
It’s getting cold
Burn some more fossils
or put on another layer?
You know the answer
Plant your allies
COP26, my third full poem on the climate conference. Trying to keep up the poetic pressure.
