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‘Climate: The Movie’: A Poem by Bruce Dale Wise

The Society
April 20, 2024
Poetry, The Environment
15 Comments
. Climate: The Movie learn about and watch the movie here It shows there is no basis found in science for its fare.The film exposes the alarm as an invented scare.We are not witnessing extreme events in...

‘The Mock Savior’s Song’ and Other Poetry by Susan Jarvis Bryant

The Society
April 3, 2024
Poetry, Satire, The Environment
24 Comments
. The Mock Savior's Song also known as the Mobster Quadrille, after Lewis Carroll Saving critters from extinction (lonely lovelies, prone and rare) Is our calling. Gaia told us, “Save the toad with tufty...

A Poem on Climate Change: ‘Change’ by James A. Tweedie

The Society
March 21, 2024
Beauty, Poetry, The Environment
11 Comments
. Change Scrub the rock with glacial ice until the granite’s smooth and bare. Let the river cut through earth until it leaves a canyon there. Let volcanic lava flows raise islands from the trackless sea. Let...

‘Proof of Climate Change’ and Other Poetry by Russel Winick

The Society
February 7, 2024
Poetry, Satire, The Environment
40 Comments
. Proof of Climate Change The proof of existential crisis climate change is seen In too much snow, too little snow, and all that’s in between. When yearly total snowfall veers from norms more than a...

On Maine Storm Delaying Electric Vehicle Mandate: A Poem by James A. Tweedie

The Society
December 21, 2023
Culture, Poetry, The Environment
25 Comments
. Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin in reference to the recent storm in Maine In Maine the Governor had to delay A hearing where the government had planned To air, promote, consider and to weigh A law where...

‘Fartgates: Of Biden and Kerry’ and Other Poetry by Daniel Rancio

The Society
December 13, 2023
Poetry, Satire, The Environment
2 Comments
. Fartgates: Of Biden and Kerry That climate crap (no pun intended)They’re pushing is so much projection,A bellywash that’s open-endedFrom an open-ended nether-section. The gasbags blather on and let...

‘Greta Thunberg Meets the Emerald Queen’: A Poem by Evan Mantyk

The Society
December 8, 2023
Beauty, Poetry, Satire, The Environment
13 Comments
. Greta Thunberg Meets the Emerald Queen Part II of "The Emerald Queen: A Legend from the Future" One day through the forest leaves wafted her song, Attracting a young girl who wandered along, Who loved to go...
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‘The Sum of All Fears’ and Other Poems on the Government by Cheryl Corey

The Society
September 20, 2023
Culture, Poetry, The Environment
30 Comments
. The Sum of All Fears “Oppressive government is fiercer than a tiger.” ---Confucius Psst. Be careful what you post online.The slightest threat, even made in jest,And alphabet men will don the armored...
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A Poem on John Kerry’s Private Jet and Other Poetry by Russel Winick

The Society
August 12, 2023
Culture, Poetry, Satire, The Environment
16 Comments
. The Jet Not Owned When climate czar John Kerry was chastised, For flying in his carbon-spewing plane, He angrily replied he’d never owned A private jet---he called that charge insane. It’s true---the...

‘The Sea’: A Poem by Roy E. Peterson

The Society
July 24, 2023
Beauty, Poetry, The Environment
26 Comments
. The Sea The sea rolls on, unchanged. Unmarred By earthly wars it stays unscarred. Always as long as man exists, The sea will froth in perfect bliss. When our life is borne away, And sunlit fingers point the...
poem/bryant/the environment

A Poem for Earth Day: ‘Green… Greener… Greenest…’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant

The Society
April 22, 2023
Pantoum, Poetry, Satire, The Environment
43 Comments
. Green... Greener... Greenest...   a doomsday pantoum Zoom with raving saviors to Net Zero. Bewail our frail and ailing habitat. Become a carbon-taxing pseudo-hero. Trade...

‘An Iffy Christmas’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant

The Society
December 25, 2022
Culture, Poetry, Readings, The Environment
28 Comments
. . An Iffy Christmas   with a nod and a wink to Rudyard Kipling If you can’t rise above the treetop fairy (That plastic risk to Rudolph’s rosy nose); If you can’t marvel at the Virgin Mary And...

‘Cop27—A Sonnetised Summary’ and Other Poetry by Susan Jarvis Bryant

The Society
November 10, 2022
Poetry, Satire, The Environment
54 Comments
. Cop27---A Sonnetised Summary upon reading the Cop27 VIP jet dinner menu  A swarm of jets belch fumes that blight the blue As contrails stripe the skies of Sharm el-Sheikh, Where greedy gluttons gorge on...

‘Mother Nature Is Bipolar’ by Roy E. Peterson

The Society
November 9, 2022
Beauty, Culture, Poetry, The Environment
24 Comments
. Mother Nature Is Bipolar Mother Nature is bipolar. She needs to take a pill. One minute she's a blowhard. The next one she is still. I've seen her hail in April. I've seen her snow in May. I've seen her sun...

‘CDC: Save the Planet from Poison CO2!!’ by Mike Bryant

The Society
November 4, 2022
Culture, Poetry, Satire, Science, The Environment
113 Comments
. CDC: Save the Planet from Poison CO2!! “We used to think CO2 was a harmless trace gas… How wrong we were!” ---Dr. Dillard “Sparky” Barker, SMFS, The CDC’s Second Most Famous Scientist Your...

‘Uncontrolled’ and Other Poetry by Russel Winick

The Society
October 1, 2022
Culture, Humor, Poetry, The Environment
19 Comments
. Uncontrolled When my behavior needs to change, __But I can’t make that be, Such lack of self-control seems strange, __And I’m ashamed of me. Sometimes the angst I feel inside __Was planted long ago, And...

On Climate Change: ‘The End Is Near’ and Other Poetry by James A. Tweedie

The Society
March 29, 2022
Culture, Humor, Poetry, The Environment
49 Comments
. The Simplest Way to Save the Earth The simplest way for us to save the earth Would be for women to stop giving birth. For when there are no longer any mothers We’ll solve the problem of too many...

‘Bluer Skies’ and Other Poetry by Norma Pain

The Society
February 20, 2022
Beauty, Humor, Poetry, The Environment
20 Comments
. Bluer Skies after Ogden Nash Spring ain’t sprung, the grass ain’t growed, The fields ain’t fit for man nor toad. They tell us that the world is warmin’, ‘Pears to me the world is stormin’. Snow...

On World Leaders Falling Asleep at the U.N. Climate Summit in Glasgow: COP26

The Society
November 12, 2021
Culture, Humor, Poetry, The Environment
7 Comments
. At the COP26 We all have piled up at the COP,For in a day the World may stop!No really, that’s what voters sayAnd that’s enough, so I’m here today. We must turn up or all goes pop—And yet I find my...

‘Nature Is Bountiful’ by Roy E. Peterson

The Society
October 16, 2021
Beauty, Poetry, The Environment
17 Comments
. Nature is bountiful giving to man All that we require, however She can; Food for the table and meds for the sick; Gas for the car that can make our lives quick; The air that we breathe and the water we...

‘Turbines’: A Non-Environmental Poem by Jeff Eardley

The Society
July 22, 2021
Culture, Poetry, The Environment
28 Comments
. They lie in serried ranks above the strand. These mighty, whirling monsters made of steel. Where once, a couple wandered, hand in hand, Not knowing what the future might reveal. The murky sea rolls in from...

Ekphrastic Contest: Write a Poem on This Photograph

The Society
October 8, 2020
Culture, Ekphrastic, Poetry Contests, The Environment
148 Comments
See the winners here. Above is a recent photograph of Chateau Boswell, a winery, vineyard, and tasting room located in California. It has suffered terribly because of the recent “Glass Fire” in Napa...

‘Eternal Apocalypse’: A Poem on Climate Change and Others by Susan Jarvis Bryant

The Society
October 8, 2020
Covid-19, Humor, Poetry, The Environment
24 Comments
  Eternal Apocalypse I’ve managed to escape a coming ice age; A mammoth hasn’t tossed me to my death. I’ve dodged the planet’s ozone-waning end-stage; Our green and pleasant land’s still...

Three Poems of the Nuclear Age by Peter Austin

The Society
July 30, 2020
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry, The Environment
6 Comments
  Tomoko When the Enola Gay dropped ‘Little Boy’, Tomoko---just a little girl herself--- Was robbed of any hope of earthly joy And sentenced to a life upon the shelf, Until, that is, she and...
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‘Two Tattoos,’ Poems by Damian Robin

The Society
June 15, 2020
Culture, Humor, Poetry, The Environment
13 Comments
Two Tattoos   Tattoo One: On the Corporate and Politic Bodies Across my town, the shops and offices are short. Its buildings don’t blot out the sun. There’s sky to spare. However, needling,...

‘Earth Day 2020’ and Other CCP Virus (COVID-19) Poetry

The Society
April 21, 2020
Covid-19, Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Humor, Poetry, The Environment
12 Comments
Earth Day 2020 Poet's Note: April 22 is the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. Earth Day is an annual celebration on which events are held worldwide to demonstrate support for “environmental protection.”...

‘Mama’ and Other Poetry by Sally Cook

The Society
January 21, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry, The Environment
19 Comments
Mama My mama took two drinks a year; A shot glass down the gullet— Yet hated bars and abhorred beer. Would execute a pullet— An ax, a stump—one frightened bird Was done for in a minute, Yet any...

‘Landscaping, or, How I Came To Believe In Global Warming’ by Martin Hill Ortiz

The Society
December 2, 2019
Humor, Poetry, The Environment
9 Comments
I think that I shall never see A tree that is invisible. The very thought is risible— Or maybe it's advisable To say the word as 'rīsible.' My crucial point is clear to see —I mean it can be seen,...

‘In Memory of the Lake’ by James Christy

The Society
October 24, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Poetry, The Environment
4 Comments
  I hear Boeung Kak has now been filled with gritty sand, turned mud, now earth. The lake’s become a dusty field, yet memory preserves a berth for fishermen in long canoes, just toothpicks...

‘Cape Horn’ and Other Poetry by Adam Sedia

The Society
September 7, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Poetry, The Environment
9 Comments
Cape Horn They lifted anchor, spread the sails, __Quit shores where they were born, Bound for spice isles from doubtful tales __By way of far Cape Horn— Rough seamen, fortune-bound, to trade __In...

‘Antaeus and Us’ by William Walters

The Society
August 3, 2019
Culture, Poetry, The Environment
6 Comments
"Antaeus, the son of Terra, the Earth, was a mighty giant and wrestler, whose strength was invincible so long as he remained in contact with his mother Earth." —Bulfinch's mythology Blessed Gaea, Mother...

A Poem on the Green New Deal and Other Poetry by Susan Jarvis Bryant

The Society
June 26, 2019
Culture, Humor, Poetry, The Environment
18 Comments
Doomsday… or Not? The Green New Deal is out there, and Bernie says it’s true— there’s only twelve more years left for the likes of me and you to curtail carbon footprints and cure the ailing...

A Poem for Former Greenpeace Activist Patrick Moore, by Bruce Dale Wise

The Society
April 11, 2019
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry, The Environment
5 Comments
District E for former Greenpeace Activist Patrick Moore by Eric Awesud Ble It always was at night when people simply disappeared. Names were removed from registers; such memories were seared. The...

‘The Finite Prairies Under Boundless Skies’ by Alessio Zanelli

The Society
December 22, 2018
Beauty, Poetry, The Environment
23 Comments
The angler knows the stream, exactly where to cast the line. The fish in turn suspects what offers food disguises danger though it's urged to search the spot. The two engage in grueling fights, dead baits...

‘Here Comes the Hybrid Bus’ by K.G. Jackson

The Society
December 4, 2018
Beauty, Humor, Poetry, The Environment
5 Comments
  Here Comes the Hybrid Bus Here comes that brand new hybrid bus Round the street so pretty; It's length so long it makes the turn, And bends right round the city. It's certainly looking very...

On the California Wildfires, by Tonya McQuade

The Society
November 19, 2018
Culture, Poetry, The Environment
14 Comments
AQI: Hazardous Outside, the air is filled with smoke and ash So thick the nearby mountains can’t be seen; Bright red and purple colors on the map Warn that the air we breathe’s no longer clean. In...

‘Heritage’ by C. David Hay

The Society
November 7, 2018
Beauty, Poetry, The Environment
10 Comments
  Behold the cloud-graced monoliths That stretch against the sky Into the boundless sanctity Where wind swift eagles fly. Primal valleys bloom to life As tumbling waters sing, Resurrected from...

The Eight Greatest Poems of William Wordsworth

The Society
October 6, 2018
Beauty, Best Poems, Culture, Essays, Poetry, The Environment
14 Comments
by Charles Eager William Wordsworth was born in Cockermouth, Cumberland, in 1770—the same year as gave us Beethoven, Hegel, and Hölderlin—and died at the age of eighty, rich in the knowledge of his...

‘A Question of Faith’ by Charles Bauer

The Society
August 26, 2018
Culture, Poetry, The Environment
8 Comments
A Question of Faith The crowd cheered on their betters’ masquerade, Emotions seethed as memes were hatched and grew; Elijah watched as Ba’al’s prophets prayed. Reporters for the 70’s news were...

‘Crossing the Swamp by Jon MacNaughton’ and Other Poetry by Bruce Dale Wise

The Society
August 3, 2018
Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry, The Environment
10 Comments
(All poetry by Bruce Dale Wise) Crossing the Swamp by Jon MacNaughton by Caud Sewer Bile "If freedom of speech is taken away...we may be led, like sheep to...slaughter." —George Washington The boat...
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