#cop26
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
Nov 10, 2021
Nov 10, 2021 at 11:40 AM 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
Nov 4, 2021
Nov 4, 2021 at 7:18 PM UTC
Poets together perform for climate survival,
the world and its children
Absorb this online
in languages of passion
and deftness
Nov 1, 2021
Nov 1, 2021 at 9:41 AM UTC
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
Oct 31, 2021
Oct 31, 2021 at 10:12 AM UTC
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
Oct 21, 2021
Oct 21, 2021 at 4:29 PM UTC