Poetry: The environment 44 Articles

by Rowann

Underwater Bubbles Drifting under my fingernails. White sketchpad, Plastic and slippery Keeps trying to drift from me. Rotting wooden pencil, As shiveringly I trace lace plant forms. Seaweed, I said, And she lau...read more

by Carolyn Sorrell

IN OBSCURITY Terrible dreams Of blackness Of bleak earth Scorched, lying desolate. Wretched pangs Of remorse Of sorrow Regrets like hailstones Scattered upon Barren landscape. Fashion us a reprieve Moth...read more

by Damon Jay Forbes

The Fox "I hate it.....simple " said the fox "the city, these beings, just not me" said he "Last year" ( reminiscing ) "my wife passed as she tried to pass a monster in red. screaming red! artificial fire, y...read more

by Jonnie Chastain

A BEDTIME STORY FOR 2099 Tell me, Nana, of once upon a time', About things that I'll never see. Tell me a story of long ago, When you were little like me. * Once upon a time the air was clear, We walked neath...read more

by Kelsey Lorenz

Save our Earth.. Save our Life.. Splotches of gold Cover the emerald ground Over the tall brown held green The dew dots over, The dancing grass. The brown surfaces Blown in specks By the thin breeze. The stumps...read more

by Miss Shawtay

For what are we doing Animals, flowers dying off Trash litters the ground Corpses overflow wars The environment is treated so harsly For the once peaceful forest Is now a construction site The once pleasent lake I...read more

by Zach Mcclure

The Angels Had A Pillowfight Last night The angels had a Pillowfight. Look! See those tiny feathers floating down? So soft and white The evidence Is everywhere,you see. Every branch of every tree Is full of ...read more

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by Grace Given

We Are Crying We should all consider well, The lessons Nature teaches now. What we build up with strife, May not sustain us through our life. Glitz and glitter washed away, When the seawall gave way. Whipping ...read more

by Greer Garrison

Waiting On The World To Change California Mudslides Rising Tsunami tides Dams in Colorado, blocking fresh water Innocent Elephants, for their tusks they've been slaughtered Global warming Polluted skies are f...read more

by Jane Brunton

IF The animals and birds seem to exist only in books now. Or were they someone's fantastic imaginings the ravings of a mad man? The rivers and woods are as silent as my book of colored pictures. Or are t...read more

by Linda Schreiber

CONTAMINATED It is everywhere, in the ground, in the air Contaminated water with toxins to spare Awful stuff, you don't really want to know Makes babies abort and sperm a no-show. Contaminated filthy black goo ...read more

by AMERICAN MAN

=MINDING THE EARTHS TREASURES= How old is our earth they ask but knowing only of its crust they have no fathom of the real nature in ages beyond comprehension So thin our earths crust being just that ...read more

by Jada Molton

Fireflies They glitter and gleam against the dark, illuminating blades of grass with a spark, finding each other in the midnight black. Having their way with the empty sky, painting poetry all hours of the night, en...read more

by Elliot Bell

The green leaf Floats underneath The gaseous emissions Of industrial environmentalists Over-priced hybrids Better is expensive, of course One dollar up north Five dollars on the island These poor little branches C...read more

by James David Cowles

A Better Way Do you not Understand What you are doing? You're destroying our land. The one thing we killed for For ages Our love for nature as a whole Exists now only on pages The very page I'm writing up...read more

by Mary Breach

UNNOTICED Lying alone on the cold ground The lifeless form goes unnoticed. Children playing, dogs fetching, parents calling. The lifeless form still unnoticed A small boy no more than six running by, ...read more

by Ryan Sherman

Milk and Branches Somewhere deep in tangled wild-wood, a sunken hollow keeps her marble gown; She clothes her alder arms in tissue-papered skin. Her slender limbs rise into a web of vein...read more

by Joshua Kerr

The People's Pond Of late, there have been rumours of fish, of local evolution, of regeneration. They say rusted cans have transformed; grown fins, heroin holes for gills. I've heard the pram, once prominent as ...read more

by Matthew Jabczynski

Devilish Cold and Devilish Heat The heat, its beauty, the wonderment of love And all it's wandering, A flame will find the cold And melt its heart, But when left alone, the cold will find the flame, And freeze i...read more

by Two one three four six six

We call it the environment because it is what is around us, but we forget that we breathe it and eat it and excrete and sweat it out and live in it and smell it and smell of it and live with it and love with it a...read more