Sunday, 8 January 2017

Our Planet's In Serious Trouble

A molten ball hurtling through space
Then earth's crust began to cool
And billions of years in passing
Migratory water commenced to pool

This magnificient orb speeding through space
Transitioning, since it had begun
Eons dissolving, flora and fauna evolving
Throughout, it's yearly trek 'round the sun

Experienced ice-ages and mass extinctions
And through so many impacts, my this planet had grown
With gravitation holding everything together
Traversing an orbit, in a Goldilocks zone

From this raging inferno
Emanating from explosive molten storms
Evolution commencing from star-matter
Came very simple life forms

Billions of years in the making
A wondrous planet and mankind of today
Now global warming is a serious threat
And generations to come, will pay

In the matter of only a blink of time
Gross neglect and fossil-fuel burning
Irreversible damage to earth's eco-systems
These ways, they better start turning

Drought, storms and ice-caps shrinking
Oceans reefs are dying, many habitats lost
All of this in the name of what?
And mostly, who'll suffer the cost

Our great grand children will bear the brunt
CO2 emmisions, causing so much to be lost
But the really big problem is methane gas
Emanating from, the Arctic's perma-frost

Methane is twenty times more polluting
Gotta' burst that complacent bubble
For if this is not addressed real soon

Our planet definitely is, in very serious trouble

2 comments:

  1. OMG this is powerful stuff and so sad and petrifying at the same time! What can we do as an sole individual or as the people? Thanks for sharing your meaningful words and poetry! Your daughter of a few! Xoxxoxoxo

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  2. Every writer has a season and this is most definitely Bob Threader’s season as a prolific writer. It is an effort to choose my favourite of these poems but throwing caution to the wind I will choose “Our Planter’s in Serious Trouble”. Bob has a unique penetrating vision from a soul’s eye.
    This expressionist poet has opened our minds to the macrocosim of our earth by devoting his passion to a plea for hope. Please endeavour to chose your favourite out his poetic seeds in his season that will blossom with your mind’s. Enjoy!!
    Veronica Graver

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