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Time ticks down as we gouge, burn, eat and smear this planet, all the while avoiding eye-contact as we line our graves with cash for a soft and pointless landing Standing knee-deep already on a rented doorstep the next in line rightfully curse us as the fat get fatter, fit to burst, but never fit for purpose
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Nov 10, 2021
Nov 10, 2021 at 11:40 AM UTC
Climes
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
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Nov 4, 2021
Nov 4, 2021 at 7:18 PM UTC
Climate the mother of all battles
Poets together perform for climate survival, the world and its children Absorb this online in languages of passion and deftness
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Nov 1, 2021
Nov 1, 2021 at 9:41 AM UTC
Cop26 poems on climate
Drums rousing the beet Jiving Koalas trapped by  roving fires Amazonia mambo bare,       dancing its baked earth A wryly fox trots onto the      boardwalk Street popping and locking     with a child's bare feet ****** blisters emerge on     human flotsam Spotlit hokey pokey debating Negotations jitter bugging       the event horizon When the waltz faces the tango The dancers must find a solution
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Oct 31, 2021
Oct 31, 2021 at 10:12 AM UTC
Climate on the dance floor
Climate rides the sinking land Promiscuous tongues of fire exposes the earth to fiery heavens A lassoo tightens with each contortion Summer locks horns with wintery violence The spinning world starts to wobble Poles apart, partying Northern lights at equatorial heights Magnetic distractions finese the tectonic porcelain ****** lands ***** by volcanic fracas Ozone aztec sacrifice on narcotic high Purply blue sun corona in smoggy vistas Screen factor 1000 and UV suit for hire Saragassum sea flow over lowland fare Uplands melt into tempestal seas Lakes arise over pregnant ponds Baked cookie continents totally bisected Adulturated Ice warms watery jacuzzi abysses Locusts devour restaurant menus Seaweed choking the take away flow Extinct mammoths refuel the flames A dithering world 'Copping out' Vivaldis music but a dream A tribute act all that remains COP26 its not too late
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Oct 21, 2021
Oct 21, 2021 at 4:29 PM UTC
Harness a rampaging climate, 'the rewrite'