Dark Hearts Love Too: Climate Change Blues

Dark Hearts Love Too: Climate Change Blues:   Free Use Image from Pixabay I you pave paradise and put up a parking lot play it on repeat you pave paradise and build another strip mall ...

A poem about the possible fate of the Earth if we don't start taking responsibility for our actions.

Carpe Diem #1777: A Fusion of Seasons

Image by aalmeidah from Pixabay

cricket silence

between scraping sounds

autumn begins

© Jane Reichhold

it touches the line

of my fishing pole -

this summer moon

© Chiyo-Ni

summer fishing done

as the crickets fall silent

autumn now begins

summer fishing done

we must prepare for winter

weather is too warm

as the crickets fall silent

will they return in the spring

species fall extinct

autumn now begins

the season that I love best

should not be so warm

~Cie~

Notes:

We were asked to create a fusion Haiku from the first two poems and then create a Troiku from the fusion Haiku. The Three Horses of the Apocalypse led my sleigh to weather that is unseasonably hot and dry. It should not be close to 80 degrees in Colorado in November. So I got all environmentally conscious on everyone and turned my Troiku to a Senryu, because that's the kind of thing I do.

OctPoWriMo 2019: Day 14: Enraged Earth (Choka)

Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay

the giver of life

will no longer sustain us

if we continue

to destroy all of nature

she will not nurture

but will lash out in fury

~Cie~

Troiku Challenge 2019: Day 3: In Bloom

Blooming Amaltas

Chestnut Tree

people in the world 

hardly notice these blossoms

chestnuts by the eaves

people in the world

hardly notice anything

not about themselves

hardly notice these blossoms

on plants becoming extinct

forests slashed and burned

chestnuts by the eaves

do you taste the poison sky

as acid rain falls

~Basho & Cie~

Notes:

The "sleigh" part of this Troiku was created by Matsuo Basho (1644 - 1694.) The three horses of the Apocalypse were created by me. (Surprise!)

Climate change: it's what's for dinner at the end of everything.