Forever seeking
Life’s clues,
Experiences
Realities
Resonances,
Inner most being.
Obliterating Old-Growth, Fairy Creek Final
Age of Agony
Caterwauling chainsaws
Burly brutes
Roughneck RCMPs*,
Evict’d eagles!
Salmon Nation Rainforest,
Unrepeatable uniqueness
Colossal cedars
Divine Douglases
Humongous hemlocks
Wondrous water,
Spawning salmon!
Your half-ton
Highnesses’ hearts,
Fiendish fisheries,
Simmering seas,
Horrendous Homo sapiens,
A thousand pardons!
Tar Sands Death Hex
Seventy-one years
Stewing northern Alberta,
Oily subsidised trillions,
Sticky sickness
Athabasca to Mackenzie Rivers
Cramm’d carcinogens,
Nauseated North Pole!
Australia’s Annihilator: Anthony Albanese
Mother Earth be damn’d:
Australian Prime Minister
Anthony Albanese, neoliberal,
Fossil fuel subsidiser
Coal mine, LNG* green-lighter,
Wolseley Road, Point Piper
Manservant!
Mother’s Restoration*, Unmeaning
Restoring Nature,
Impossible!
One constant process
Universal change,
The External Becoming,
Nothing is reversible!
Gulf Oil, Whale Executioners
More fracking
Seismics, drilling
Piping, poisoning
Gulf of Mexico,
Marine life
Climate, NAH!
Apols Gentle Ones
Genial Giants,
Magnificent meadows
Grazing Gentles,
Floridian figureheads
Castaway casualties,
Dreadfully doomed!
Action For Earth
Truth to power,
Defending Mother’s
Sacred family,
Threatened, endangered
Fauna, flora, ecosystems.
God Rot, DRAX Annihilating Forests
This we know,
Levelling forests
Collapse assured,
Every civilisation
Earthly existence!
Chile’s Firestorms, Shell’s Subsidies
Twenty twenty-three,
Fossil fuel’d heatwaves
December thru February
Endlessly,
Fossil fuel’d droughts
Fossil fuel’d hellfires,
Chile SOS!
Shallow Seas, Golden Fields
Bahamas to California,
Crisp
Sweet
Tangy
Sun-kiss’d,
Dorsett goldens!
Another Lifeless Royal Highness
‘O Regal Ones
Prithee, don’t leave!
Since Two thousand sixteen,
One hundred seventy-eight
Perished
Majesties,
Forcibly disgorged,
Thirteen Atlantic states.
Ode to Rare Right
Days old
North Atlantic Right,
An eye blink,
Gaunt “Sea of Darkness”
Big Oil’s
Ear-splitting cannons,
Horror-struck
Doomed whales!
California’s Fossil-Fuelled Bomb Cyclones
Twenty twenty-two,
Carbon ignition
Fossil fuel, wood pellet, palm oil
Record burning,
Oceans stockpiling HEAT!
Torturous Fisheries, Rare Whale Goner
Her Royal Highness,
Youthful
Innocent
Playful
Curious
Hungry
Entangled,
Rodanthe, North Carolina.
Drowned Disgorged Diseased Dolphin
‘O Enigmatic One,
Podless
Isolated
Fevered
Agonised
Lifeless,
Palm Coast, Florida.
Dolphin Decimation, Stand Down Tokyo
Intelligent, self-aware
Playful, empathetic
Curious, sad
Sophisticated speakers,
Joyous, compassionate
Loving grievers,
Breathtaking radar
Echolocationers,
Incomparable climate solvers,
Delightful coexisters,
The dolphins!