Tag Archives: Mother Earth

POEM: Coaled Hearted

A short fossil fuel and climate chaos poem for the dead of winter… Coaled Hearted The coaled hearted Won’t stop Until they have Even robbed the snow banks

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POEM: Suicide Enaction

Here is a poem about both our individual and collective responsibilities to act on the climate crisis.  At the nexus of personal responsibility and collective responsibility, there converges that buy product in action, inaction, and enaction… Suicide Enaction Personally I … Continue reading

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POEM: Book Ends

Life has boundaries. May we respect those boundaries… Book Ends We live Fore the time being In a whirled Sow illiterate That disrespects The bookends of life The sacred nest Of awe human life And the reverence Of Mother Earth … Continue reading

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POEM: Fossil Fools

This poem goes out to the COP30 climate conference from the mouth of the Amazon about won passable future… Fossil Fools Deep in the future The alien archeologists landed Long after the human raze Was extincting to hi heaven What … Continue reading

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POEM: My Asthma

Sometimes, it seems that I am a little too connected to the world… My Asthma Just The other day To God I in choir Singing my wheezy song Why did you give me asthma? She hummed long Something concerning My … Continue reading

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POEM: On the Sacrificial Lam

For those who may claim that you are living precariously in some fashion, just know that it may be difficult to be more suicidal than planet human right now… On the Sacrificial Lam To live sow precariously They couldn’t help … Continue reading

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POEM: Revolution-airy

Earth is our ultimate revolution… Revolution-airy “If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution.” –Emma Goldman In this whirled Of human unkind Nevertheless Mother Earth spins Up on her axes On a roll Of celestial … Continue reading

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POEM: Vegan?

Here is a funny poem about my aspirational veganism… Vegan? They asked the fated quest in Why are you a vegan? Well, as a recovering nutritional fascist I try to be a hospitalitarian Eating whatever someone offers me Butt The … Continue reading

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POEM: Balance Do

Here is another poem dedicated to Mother Earth. Love your momma! Balance Do If soully we could get Enough Of Mother Earth and fecund wealth A rich dance With soil and water Flora and fauna Trusted friends and clear skies … Continue reading

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POEM: Fashionable Climate

The environment is not infinitely malleable. May we each treasure our mother… Fashionable Climate Soon and vary soon The climate of Toledo Will be Bequeathed The climate of the deep south in 1950 In a madder of generations How becoming … Continue reading

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POEM: Back to Me

Mother Earth is calling us home. Let that call be a family reunion, not a funeral. Back to Me Sow little A tension As I feed The globe In circling awe You whack me I grow deeper roots You withhold … Continue reading

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POEM: De-construction Jobs

This poem goes out to those lives and communities where climate disasters wreak havoc, especially those suffering in the chasm between those who have the wherewithal to recover and those who don’t. May we be good neighbors to each other … Continue reading

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POEM: A Posit of Treasured

A poem to our penchant for extractive industries despoiling Mother Earth. A Posit of Treasured In our lust For lustrous alchemy And unsatiable technowizardry We dug with such graveness Nothing could scar us out of our mine We combed over … Continue reading

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POEM: “Kids these daze” – Mother Earth

A bit of wisdom: listen to your momma. “Kids these daze” – Mother Earth Pardon Dying Too ax How due You No Your mama Accept as A consume her Living as if theirs No tomorrow

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POEM: Audience Participation

Saving the planet and the life that inhabits it is not a spectator sport. What is your personal action plan to help save Mother Earth and her children? Audience Participation Now For our next death deifying act Matched only buy … Continue reading

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POEM: Gypsy Mother E

Mother Earth has treated us well. Let’s treat her as our one and only. Gypsy Mother E We had A Gypsy mother Who lived As 93 million miles from the light of her life Who loved Her wayward children More … Continue reading

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POEM: Citizen Ship

This short poem goes out to all of you planetary citizens out there. Citizen Ship They had no papers They’re citizenship Written on their hearts By Mother Earth

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POEM: Walking the Second Thousand Miles

This poem is yet another ode to my love affair with Mother Earth and the endurance and multi-generational commitment needed to forestall catastrophic climate chaos. Walking the Second Thousand Miles Hiking out of a desert Of environmental neglect With rising … Continue reading

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POEM: Heir Conditioning a Burning Planet

This poem is a playful romp of mixed metaphors surrounding the destruction of our planet through climate change. May Mother Earth and future generations find relief from this onslaught. Heir Conditioning a Burning Planet When the empire culls You out … Continue reading

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POEM: A Seventh Generation Fuel

This poem is a tip of the hat to indigenous peoples’ supremely wise practice of considering every decision in the light of how it will affect people seven generations down the road. I wrote this during the dark of the … Continue reading

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