Climate

 

 

                                      The storm that scrolled across the sky

                                           Staved off mankind’s deceit.

                                      Most thought abnormal warmth, so dry,

                                           For months, was not their choice.

 

                                      They have not yet connected that

                                           Pollutants trap the heat

                                      And their lives, so mechanized,

                                           Collect as weather’s voice.

 

 

                                                           

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                            The realm before the public:

                                              Presley did it well.

                                          The combination of his voice

                                              And hips could cast a spell.

 

                                          Las Vegas claimed his vision,

                                              Barbiturates his soul.

                            Surrounding plants and animals

                                              Could not make his life whole.

 

                                         Deep within Earth’s orbit,

                                             A voice with a guitar:

                                        For the Age of Oil in America

                                             A star.

 

 

 

 

 

                                              Deva Help 1

 

                                         All alone, we’ll never make it.

                                             Earth shall burn, and be

                                         Another Venus, cindered by

                                             The sun – life, history.

 

                                         Devas wait upon the wings;

                                             Their species will to give

                                         Us an Eden; love for plants

                                             Shall graft our lives alive!

 

 

 

                                             Deva Help 2

 

 

                                            Deva realms, enlist me,

                                                 Dwarfish, but alive,

                                            Never growing higher, never

                                                 Rooting down.

 

                                            Thought is all I claim to own;

                                                 Cash, how men ungreen

                                            With cities, cars, and plastic garbage

                                                 This once holy scene.

 

                                             I am meant to care enough

                                                  To save those that depart –

                                             The species that have shared this planet:

                                                  One, all-beating heart.

 

                                            Redemption is if I encharge

                                                 And care enough to be

                                             Savior! All, survivors,

                                                  Of our techno-savagery.

 

 

 

 

                                                Libra

 

 

 

                                              To constellate the stars

                                                  Follow the dots in a dark sky.

                                              The ancestors without a roof

                                                 And less pollution answered why.

 

                                              Life was filled with lessons

                                                 That could not be taught in school.

                                              It took lifetimes to measure out

                                                 For cultures, Karmic rules.

 

                                             The grid of current roadways,

                                                 The traffic clovers coil

                                             Quiet in the future lie

                                                 When mankind loses oil.

 

                                             However, heat may grow

                                                 Until ice has disappeared

                                             And the ocean scald, Earth be

                                                 The hell mankind has feared.

 

                                             Fate awaits the waiter.

                                                  Still, parts of Eden grow.

                                             Destiny, the ancients cheer, depends

                                                  On us. We know.

 

 

 

 

                                                           

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