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The Visitor | Jenny Middleton

January 23, 2024 / Best Poetry / contemporary poetry, destruction of the environment poems, ecological poems, environmentalism poems, poetry site / 2 Comments

I open my door and find you waiting
Amongst autumn and falling, failing light
Dressed in the thickness of a dun overcoat,
The verdurous twine of ancient forests
Un-scrolling as you speak.
Your cracked lips shape islands and words isolate
The truth of your visit and the sickness
Of plastic churns grey in our ocean guts.
Inside I offer pain-killers and recycle
Panaceas of wisdom.
We analyse the figures
And skate through thinning ice against
The brooding night as the as the drift of damp moss
Grows through our conversation claiming
A small victory against the great highway.

Did you call too late?
Outside the concrete is spread and setting.

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Lament | Jenny Middleton

January 8, 2024 / Best Poetry / contemporary poetry, destruction of the environment poems, environmentalism poems, human folly poems, nature poems / Leave a Comment

Paved, tarred streets smother us
Dreaming.. stilled.
Beneath, if you listen,
Grass echoes its longing
and ancient verges, glades
and meadows sweet ache
In our fox soul of red souls
As we tread wearily,
Ceaselessly towards a confinement
of city.

an astronaut I heard
lamenting from the station
cries knowing amid our gains
loss lays heavy lidded
bleeding breaths mon-oxide doused
to a paling sky.

Shoving up between each step
Weeds protest their places
Abandoning all
pretence we scatter home
to find waiting lonely
and wilting, shedding leaves
our own journey in green tears.

There Was a Time | Laljee Verma

November 24, 2023 / Best Poetry / contemporary poetry, destruction of the environment poems, ecological poems, environmentalism poems, loss poems / Leave a Comment

There was a time
When chirping birds sang
Good Morning into my ears
Amber and gold showered
From the Eastern horizon
A sweet redness heralded
The sunrise!

Another day awaited
To test man’s endeavor
Sweat dripped and mingled
Showers slushed; pools filled
Germination of hope!

There was a time
When hope conquered despair!

Where have all the sparrows gone?

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Deforestation | Aarav Surana

October 6, 2023 / Best Poetry / deforestation poems, destruction of the environment poems, environmentalism poems, modern poetry online, poetry site, saving the planet poems / Leave a Comment

Why are we trimming our precious greenery?
Is to make space for our machinery?
Machines may make our lives fun and easy,
But without the oxygen, we might not be half so breezy.

Trees are our ultimate supporters
They are our food and oxygen headquarters.
They make their own food
Only to be devoured by the human dude.

We are replacing trees by our own industries
And other human facilities
But it is time to realise
That trees are our ultimate allies.

Think about all the wildlife in the forests
Whose homes we are to demolish.
How would it feel if someone
Would break down our houses one by one?

So let us stop this negative yielding habit
To make sure we still the Earth inhabit
For deforestation may contaminate your very life
And it may hurt more than any knife.

Dying for Love | Envein

September 25, 2022 / Best Poetry / destruction of the environment poems, environmentalism poems, modern poetry, mother nature poems, raising awareness poems / Leave a Comment

Listen to the sounds of mother nature’s cry. Should we not mourn as we watch our mother die? Raped by father time. Her innocence has been torn. Conceived by all mankind corruption has been born.
Negligence and pollution, famine and acid rain. Listen to the thunder, she’s crying from the pain. Will no one save her? Will no one try? Is there nothing we can do as we watch our mother die?
Cant you feel her tears fall from the skies above?
Cant you hear her cries in the mourning of the dove?
Cant you see her sanity Fleeing from are vanity.
Dont you know she’s dying, dying for our love.