It is so obviously there
Not just here, but everywhere
There are those who just talk
Others who just shrug or mock
Often selfish greed prevails
Saying- "They're just tall tales'
As the tortured planet warms
Beset by heat, recurrent storms
Rising seas, eroding shores
Fire that forests devours
Floods that everything submerge
Glaciers melt and deserts surge
"We need our comforts damn the cost
All is well and nothing's lost
Talk of it a passing fad"
Whom gods destroy they first make mad
Hope sense prevails for progeny's sake
Shedding selfishness- mankind awakes.
Bravo! In a few short words, you have struck at the very core of the problem. Our greed and unawareness of what is really happening.
Something that was known in the 1950s and became very obvious to me in 1971 when I visited the Athabasca glacier in Alberta. It had receded a half-mile from the hotel viewing it since 1900 when people could stay in the hotel, walk across the road and enjoy the glacier. Now it is more than a mile away and shrinking.
The idiots that blamed Al Gore's often badly phrased warning in 2001 continue with their heads in the sand reaping great profits like Nero while Rome burned.
We are very adaptable and can adapt, but most of the ecosystem is going into shock with extinctions approaching from all sides while those with power and resources refuse to grow up and face the problem directly.
Robin Ouzman Hislop's poetry is certainly in dialogue with some of the key architects of the 'poetics of indeterminacy' – both the Modernist strands represented by the likes of Beckett and Stein, and the postmodernist strands represented, initially,
Contraband Marriage, traveling along the hemline of loving after incarceration, is a love story written in lyric and free form, set in reality with a different ever after.
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Something that was known in the 1950s and became very obvious to me in 1971 when I visited the Athabasca glacier in Alberta. It had receded a half-mile from the hotel viewing it since 1900 when people could stay in the hotel, walk across the road and enjoy the glacier. Now it is more than a mile away and shrinking.
The idiots that blamed Al Gore's often badly phrased warning in 2001 continue with their heads in the sand reaping great profits like Nero while Rome burned.
We are very adaptable and can adapt, but most of the ecosystem is going into shock with extinctions approaching from all sides while those with power and resources refuse to grow up and face the problem directly.
Ron