Rumor has it Sir Walter Raleigh
Is on the chase once more
An expedition of sinking ships
Braziers burning fast upon the shore
Chumming with time's blood
Panning for fool's gold
Wave after wave of repercussion
The future so willfully sold
For one bowl of soup
Like Esau famished from the hunt
Turning to his artful brother
And offering him the forefront
Our crowned jewel in all her tattered
Finery cleaved to the heart
The fabled city forsook
By once trusted hands tearing her apart
Set out the coffins
Sing for us an elegy
In the surf of this funeral march
Be sure to separate corpses from algae
Apr 10, 2020
Apr 10, 2020 at 6:41 AM UTC
Rumor has it Sir Walter Raleigh
Is on the chase once more
An expedition of sinking ships
Braziers burning fast upon the shore
Chumming with time's blood
Panning for fool's gold
Wave after wave of repercussion
The future so willfully sold
For one bowl of soup
Like Esau famished from the hunt
Turning to his artful brother
And offering him the forefront
Our crowned jewel in all her tattered
Finery cleaved to the heart
The fabled city forsook
By once trusted hands tearing her apart
Set out the coffins
Sing for us an elegy
In the surf of this funeral march
Be sure to separate corpses from algae
From the Fabrizio Frosini & Poets Unite Worldwide anthology, "A Disconsolate Planet: Poems on Climate Emergency."
Poem by Carlo C. Gomez.
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