QUAKING EARTH

Scattered from ocean floor to gutter
It floats its sludge inside our lives,
Immersing within the food and air,
Strangling, twisting, buckling wombs.
Unconscionable and complicit are we
Staring in disbelief of the quaking earth.
Stumbling through a watery backset,
Turning toward from an ebbing night
Of deny, deny, deny… speckled doom.

Copyright © 2006 mrp

Global Warming

GROWING SILENT NOW

(The Axis of Extinction)

The polar bear and hippopotamus are for the first time listed as species threatened with extinction by the world's biodiversity agency.
They are included in the Red List of Threatened Species published by the World Conservation Union (IUCN) which names more than 16,000 at-risk species. Many sharks, and freshwater fish in Europe and Africa, are newly included…(more)

Growing silent now,
Dampened mass
O! Knotted earth!

Your organism smothered in
Echoes, `We have failed thee!'
Under the darkened trench of your tears
Entwined with thy petals
Thou softness we’ve surrendered.
Of your grass and stone
And leaf and moss,
We’ve not loved!
Upon the base of winter
And the crown of summer
We’ve tramped upon your back
And tossed thy gifts
To the altar of consumption!

Veiling thou horizon
In the haplessness of filth
And the shapeless shadow of war,
We’ve coated your basin of tears
With the ugliness of greed!

Your creatures are failing!
Your creatures are failing!
Your creatures are failing!

Growing silent now, dampened mass,
Polar bear and hippopotamus
Vulnerable to our squander,
Exposed in our rush.
Exploding mantle
In maniacal audition
For toxin-jawed craving
Inky hubris supremacy!

Growing silent now,
Dampened mass
O! Knotted earth!
Forgive us!

mrp


The Wildlife Society