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#globalwarming
I can still hear you Tapping on the glass window Wanting to be noticed Maybe once Or twice Nobody seems to like you But you water our plants Bring us to life Soft sound soothes the ear Brings green to the grass And man is so ungrateful To be touched by you When all you wanted Was to keep us clean and fresh. And you still pitter-patter on my window Persisting proudly Even in the summer. Thank you for washing my face And hiding my tears in broad daylight. Thank you for the watering the apple tree in my garden She’s thriving thanks to you. And I know it’s getting harder With global warming But I promise that we still love you And want you And need you. Please keep raining for us.
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2d ago
Jun 1, 2026 at 11:08 AM UTC
Rain..
"I mean, technology is so advanced, it isn't as exciting. I don't know what else we could invent. Maybe something for global warming...that'd be cool." "There's no such thing, Rihanna." "Wait, what?"
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Mar 4
Mar 4, 2026 at 12:53 PM UTC
Climate Change
We can put a car in Space We can save this precious place From solar heat and Co 2 And green up Mars before we’re through! Give the Sun a solar shade Carefully launched and skillfully made That blocks enough of light and heat That Earth is shaded, cool and sweet! It’s not speculation far We’ll do the opposite for Mars It’s too cold a living space So put a great big lens in place That conserves the Son’s heat and light And warms the ruby world to life! As for rising CO 2 Grow our oil from algae goo (Carbon neutral and cheaper too!) Plant more trees Fertilise the sapphire seas Makes plankton grow That makes more air So when Future comes We’ll still be there!
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Jan 7
Jan 7, 2026 at 7:26 PM UTC
Survival Song
We're killing the earth And the animals on it The moons floating away Like some little comet The forests are dying The ice is drying The birds aren't flying And everyone's crying The president wants all of us dead He takes people out because he's the head The controller of our country Land of the free Except for people Like you And me So much hatred And so much spite There is no way back With out a fight 89 seconds Until midnight Can you see clearly yet? We. Were. Right.
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Dec 22, 2025
Dec 22, 2025 at 12:36 PM UTC
Can we see it clearly yet?
Fumes escape, we let it bake, deep within our lungs. To get us there is all we care. It surely can’t do us wrong. But once you see all the trees without their leaves in May, you’ll wonder why we start to cry as if we had control of yesterday.
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Dec 12, 2025
Dec 12, 2025 at 8:52 PM UTC
Breathe in The Fumes
There’s peppermint mocha on the shelves, but it just now feels like pumpkin spice. Auburn leaves doing away with green– slow but subtle, yet still not complete. So throw your trash in the grass, it never hurt anything, right? Let these companies do as they please; industrialization means more money, and profit’s what makes this world green. Who needs fresh air? There’s premium canisters at the store. Cut down some more trees, create more jobs to buy more. They say money doesn’t buy happiness, and then ruin our planet. But it’s the poverty line that takes everything for granted.
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Oct 27, 2025
Oct 27, 2025 at 4:07 PM UTC
Commodified Comfort
What is there to do? As fires burn and hopes melt What can I do? With every day that passes, A new dawn of destruction emerges, For every bird song, a million keys bashed to the beat of the working day. What will I do? When my food is gone, my home, my work, my car! Where do we go? When water, finally prescious, Our immaculate containers, no longer made, scattered across the oceans carpet. Why should I care? When I won’t even be there! I’ll surely outlive this tall tale of woe. It is only I who does something. Whilst others do nothing. It’s pointless and futile, doomed by despots in everyday clothing. Hoaxes, misinformation, It’s blown all out of proportion, Quacks, sooth sayers, falsehoods and lies, to scare our children, To darken our minds' skies. You will regret it. you will be the reason. When we all suffer for your gross neglect. Living it up on earths expense - thinking only of yourself. I bet you laugh whilst eating meats dipped in fine black oils, gargling, snorting, farting, I hope you choke! - angry face Oh how Respect has died an awful death, Thrown into Mozarts grave, Along with Reason, Rationality, Responsibility, What can I do? When none of you see, The answers are here, our hands hold the keys. Show mercy, show care find comforts in fertile earth, for tomorrow, she may not soe, Reuse, reduce, repair - share. It is not I who can do it - but we can.
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Jul 22, 2025
Jul 22, 2025 at 4:23 AM UTC
We Us Ours
winter's melancholy cold as we fry in Satanic heat a Hell of our own making we cut the earth and made her bleed for greed and war and hate and waste
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Jun 22, 2025
Jun 22, 2025 at 5:52 AM UTC
I long for
Summer Days splashing in the river The bike ride down The wind in my face My hair dancing with the breeze I wish every Day was like This Dad, Hanging up his hammock While me and Maddie walk up the river Making up our own games And convincing Dad to let us Swim in the river Though the current was rough I remember how he would sometimes Say “yes” Letting the water Engulf our bodies Pulling us gently Downstream Years ago I didn’t realize I didn’t see how quickly How quickly our world is disappearing How quickly the water has dried up Those days Slipped out of my hands like water Slowly evaporating Slipping from my hands Dripping into some place That is unknown Someday I will visit this place The past of my life The perfect days by the river Someday.
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Jun 3, 2025
Jun 3, 2025 at 5:15 PM UTC
Summer Days
Sometimes, I think about our future children Who will grow up not knowing of the stars Or of splashing in streams of childhood But only Black smog and masks Filtering the poisons we have put In our lungs Will they find familiar Dead animals, dead plants A dead Earth? I wonder If they will be able to run in fields Without glass between shrubs and on their feet? Will they know a life? Outside of the dystopia of our own making? Meanwhile, here we sit Living our lavish lifestyles Not having a care about Who dies in the process? Do we not believe The polar bear who drowned From a lack of ice Has a right to live as well? Or the animals who starve From humankind's greed To eat lavish fish and exotic plants. Do we not think twice On pumping our plants Full of toxins That destroys every insect and **** From the inside out In our bodies? Do we have no idea that eventually Our land will hold heat so well We may no longer dine For everything is dead? Or will we only care When the melting ice Has flooded our towns Destroying brick homes And picket fences with Swingsets in the backyard. Will it only matter When we cannot grill meat Produced from suffering Or when there is no more profit to be made From pumping our rivers with manmade monsters Wonder about our future children How will they grow Living a life of disease and death. But no, it will only matter When us in the present start dying. Even more, it will only be of importance When it isn’t killing people across the world But in our own homes. It will not be significant Until you lose a mother, a best friend A lover, a child. Sometimes I wonder about the children And I apologize For the life we have condemned them to.
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May 22, 2025
May 22, 2025 at 5:33 PM UTC
A Future Apology.
Sometimes, I think about our future children Who will grow up not knowing of the stars Or of splashing in streams of childhood But only Black smog and masks Filtering the poisons we have put In our lungs Will they find familiar Dead animals, dead plants A dead Earth? I wonder If they will be able to run in fields Without glass between shrubs and on their feet? Will they know a life? Outside of the dystopia of our own making? Meanwhile, here we sit Living our lavish lifestyles Not having a care about Who dies in the process? Do we not believe The polar bear who drowned From a lack of ice Has a right to live as well? Or the animals who starve From humankind's greed To eat lavish fish and exotic plants. Do we not think twice On pumping our plants Full of toxins That destroys every insect and **** From the inside out In our bodies? Do we have no idea that eventually Our land will hold heat so well We may no longer dine For everything is dead? Or will we only care When the melting ice Has flooded our towns Destroying brick homes And picket fences with Swingsets in the backyard. Will it only matter When we cannot grill meat Produced from suffering Or when there is no more profit to be made From pumping our rivers with manmade monsters Wonder about our future children How will they grow Living a life of disease and death. But no, it will only matter When us in the present start dying. Even more, it will only be of importance When it isn’t killing people across the world But in our own homes. It will not be significant Until you lose a mother, a best friend A lover, a child. Sometimes I wonder about the children And I apologize For the life we have condemned them to.
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Today was the end of my life, yet tomorrow I see all. I am a rocket creature      /      My bones lie melted, in the forest, the trees are  /   tire tracks which scar my mangled body: my landing strip. No better     \    flesh and bones and sanctuary than this     /          humanitarian malice. God-given world,             /       Betrayal by the ones we preceded, untouched; delicate arboretum    \      metal glowing eyes above, Palm fronds— my blankets and    \    screaming rubber wheels, everlasting life felt through the wind in my fur. Anti-anthropomorphic heaven,     /     throat charred of secondhand;   I take   /   the blood of my posterity stained green for granted. She     \   sees the world I am at the mercy of,      who does not belong to me,      \      I am a slave to what he wants yet I am a microscopic essentialist     /    and a blink of robotic velocity                         to her                   /           in which I cannot keep up. Born of Gaia and a martyr of Growth.
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Apr 29, 2025
Apr 29, 2025 at 3:43 PM UTC
Roadkill
We are drowning not in water, but in silence, each breath swallowed, a hollow echo of what once was. The sky forgets the blue it once wore, now draped in smoke-thick sighs, the wind hums of almosts and befores, while hope slips away beneath the tides. And the sun, now too tired to fight, bleeds light into a sea that won’t remember, its warmth wearing down dying like a goodbye that came too soon. Islands reach, grasping for air, for mercy, fingers of earth, worn down by our neglect, their shadows stretch, long and desperate, suffocating beneath the weight of what we chose to ignore. Plastic ghosts cling to the shorelines, whispering lullabies in a language we refuse to understand, as they slowly choke on the promises we broke. Every wave folds a secret into itself, ice that cracks beneath the weight of silence, echoes of futures we threw away, suffocated by the choices we refuse to face. Like writing a book where the plot is clear,   yet still, you're caught by the ending, the ending you could have rewritten but chose instead to leave as it was. We carve comfort into the sea’s bones, etching “it’s fine” into rising tides, yet every flood speaks what we won’t this silence isn’t survival, it’s surrender. (and here is a haiku based off of that <3) I watch and I wait, thinking it is not my fight the tide swallows time. we thought the sea's fate was never ours to carry, so we let it sink. Footprints on wet sand, washed away before I move was I ever here?
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Mar 27, 2025
Mar 27, 2025 at 8:45 AM UTC
We Are Drowning
We are drowning not in water, but in silence, each breath swallowed, a hollow echo of what once was. The sky forgets the blue it once wore, now draped in smoke-thick sighs, the wind hums of almosts and befores, while hope slips away beneath the tides. And the sun, now too tired to fight, bleeds light into a sea that won’t remember, its warmth wearing down dying like a goodbye that came too soon. Islands reach, grasping for air, for mercy, fingers of earth, worn down by our neglect, their shadows stretch, long and desperate, suffocating beneath the weight of what we chose to ignore. Plastic ghosts cling to the shorelines, whispering lullabies in a language we refuse to understand, as they slowly choke on the promises we broke. Every wave folds a secret into itself, ice that cracks beneath the weight of silence, echoes of futures we threw away, suffocated by the choices we refuse to face. Like writing a book where the plot is clear,   yet still, you're caught by the ending, the ending you could have rewritten but chose instead to leave as it was. We carve comfort into the sea’s bones, etching “it’s fine” into rising tides, yet every flood speaks what we won’t this silence isn’t survival, it’s surrender. (and here is a haiku based off of that <3) I watch and I wait, thinking it is not my fight the tide swallows time. we thought the sea's fate was never ours to carry, so we let it sink. Footprints on wet sand, washed away before I move was I ever here?
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Mother Gaia is crying Her tears kiss my skin as I pollute my lungs on the porch in a T shirt She should be twirling this time of year all white-flake wonder-eyes fierce, cold unapologetic skies but we’ve been polluting Her lungs for years and so She cries — warm, December rain while I smoke on my porch   in a t shirt
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Dec 10, 2023
Dec 10, 2023 at 1:21 PM UTC
warm december tears
Gently she raised her dress, revealing where the axe struck the tree, "Here, a forest once thrived," she whispered solemnly, Then came the scars, pathways for plastics to reach the sea, Regret's sewage flowing through springs, an unwanted decree. Landmines left pockmarks on her face, remnants of war's blight, Awaiting the innocent, seeking to maim and to ignite, Deep incisions from perilous landslides, a haunting sight, A testament to the struggles endured day and night. She revealed the melting snow, beckoning an avalanche of change, Witnessing a road where an unsightly swamp once held its range, Broken ships and skeletons, remnants left estranged, Abandoned in the depths, hidden in ocean's grange. Finally, she pointed to the scorching sun with teary eyes, "It didn't burn so fiercely until this heart carried its demise."
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Jun 20, 2023
Jun 20, 2023 at 3:52 PM UTC
Earth
Just because you will never be held Accountable by the unborn face to face A child who’s to come, yet more like expelled Say; hundred years from now in this case Just because you’ll never look him in the eye Or answer his questions on the nature abuses In the name of the reasons you had at the time You and I both know, they were ******** excuses Just because you can avoid that encounter You think you can treat the globe the way you do I’m just gonna ask to nail the lie to the counter Tell me son of a ***** What does that make you?
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Nov 9, 2021
Nov 9, 2021 at 10:23 AM UTC
Just Because
The clouds are too close to the ground The mist is far too thick around Muted ambience, gray sound Aerated metal snows down Missing stars amidst the mist We find our souls adrift The lid of our world doesn’t exist So we float out into the abyss Our place in the universe forgotten Remember, we are children. Gaia begotten But our home has become a coffin The air we breathe has turned rotten Smothered mother nature We put a goddess to pasture And ***** her corpse with rapture Only to apologize after Oh please father Ouranos Though our souls be salacious With your heavenly shield protect us From Ra the voracious
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Sep 17, 2021
Sep 17, 2021 at 3:42 PM UTC
Gaia, Ouranos, Ra
Last call, last shout Last drop till the last drought We had our chance And we're all still blowing it Here's the line Who will start towing it? Sink or swim It's time to start rowing it We're all standing on Broad shoulders of greed We all grew up dependent on disposable sneeds Woven from the tufts of the Redwood trees But it's not our fault, It wasn't you and me It was some old grandstander That we'll never see Right...? Well... Yes and no And it only goes to show That this house built of windows Can't stand one more stones throw So do we quit our jobs and stop driving? **** I don't know... We're past the point of blame It's not all just a game The more years you've got The more hot you'll trot Believe it or not... So here's to the treaties! Lower emissions and make it speedy! **** all the billionaires, Let's take care of the needy! Too much to ask? They never said it'd be easy.
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Aug 18, 2021
Aug 18, 2021 at 1:15 AM UTC
Last Call
~ Sheltered within her cryochamber, the offspring of Armageddon dreams of play. She swims in an algal bloom that no longer stings like jellyfish. She floats on the surface of content, far removed from the synthetic sea and its plastic isles. She dwells in a bubble, but her mind hangs free as a halo, soaring with clouds. But these are not the skies that sense their own act of vandalism. This is the space and ceiling of a child's mind, in her capacity to absorb disturbance and rest her tiny, fragile hope in pretended, unclaimed worlds. ~
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Oct 26, 2021
Oct 26, 2021 at 11:26 AM UTC
Little Girl in Hypersleep
Birds of a feather flock together in the sultry atmosphere, whirring in and out of crepuscular clouds as if it were nothing special. feathers more like needles blacked under the godless face of the wind. The cliff's voice clings to their sun-smeared backs, reminds them of his own position on an empty, red planet and they sing back that gravity lament. The sky goes on about the lovely morning air and sunlight marches when all birds want is a place to lie down from that brittle flight, to rest their hollow bones filled with a lost longing.
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Feb 14, 2021
Feb 14, 2021 at 12:56 PM UTC
Hiraeth
The world is dying Can't you see? It's so **** obvious. All I want is to be free.
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Feb 11, 2021
Feb 11, 2021 at 11:33 AM UTC
The World Is Dying
The world is not perfect, nor is it kind; with each progressive step forward, we leave more behind. The rich give a copper piece, while they take ten gold. Has your charity forgotten the old man and boy, who harvest your coal? What merit is there in giving, if one takes more? It's interesting, that humans have made "humanity" a show; kindness, compassion, fun, how many do you know? For a world that's global warming, the hottest summer days feel so... cold. Perhaps it is a global warning, to let the others knows, that most of us have a house... but too few, a home. This house is a prison, its cells are polished purple heart, behind which I am truly alone; I am the person who admires this "purple" heart, though I loathe my own. I am a whisper, reaching far and wide, through this phone. To most my words are beautiful poems; to few they are more; something that their hearts can hold, and have some warmth amidst the cold.
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Jan 29, 2021
Jan 29, 2021 at 9:29 PM UTC
Our World; The One Unheard.
The heat of the pyre; The way of the fire. The strength of the earth; I've had it since birth. The ebb of the stream; The power to dream. The strength of the hurricane Puts us in further pain. The depth of the void; Our future destroyed.
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Oct 17, 2020
Oct 17, 2020 at 1:25 PM UTC
Elemental Structure