As Flowers Fade Poem by Jonathan ROBIN

Awoken, finding world abloom,
one grew, felt feelings could not jade,
matured, assured for ethics room.
Synapses slow, eyes dim, hair greyed,
parade band silent, spent perfume.
I pass as fast as flowers fade.

Decayed, at bay held, dust-in-tomb,
Man's greed in kind may be repaid
through climate change to meet dire doom
to compensate for way mislaid.
Past greed feeds conflicts. Few assume
Nature's balance disarrayed.

Unequal wealth, pandemic gloom,
systemic shock waves send, man made,
consumers (c) rash, themselves consume,
ignoring signals strong, must wade
trash scavenging through urban womb
tale rats for scraps pollution sprayed...


Jonathan Robin 3 January 1992 revised 11 March 2005 and 25 November 2007 revised 13 October 2021

for previous versions see below

AS FLOWERS FADE

I woke to find a world in bloom,
I grew, felt feelings could not jade,
matured, to principles assume, -
synapses slowed, eyes dimmed, hair greyed,
parade band silent, spent perfume.
I passed as fast as flowers fade.

Although decayed, or dust-in-tomb,
I trust Man's lust may be repaid
in kind to meet deservèd doom
to compensate for way mislaid
where there for ethics little room
seems granted, - Nature disobeyed.

When stealth and wealth, climatic gloom,
waves stimulate, through greed displayed,
consumers rash themselves consume,
ignoring signals strong, must wade
while scavenging through viral womb
tale rats for scraps pollution sprayed...




3 January 1992 revised 11 March 2005 and 25 November 2007


EPITAPH - MAY JOYS NOT JADE

I woke to find a world in bloom,
I grew through feelings naught could jade!
Mature, did principles assume, -
I passed as fast did flowers fade.
Although asleep within the tomb,
I trust Man's lust may be repaid
in kind to meet deservèd doom
to compensate the way mislaid
where there for ethics no more room
is granted, Nature disobeyed.
When stealth and wealth climatic gloom
do stimulate, through greed displayed,
consumers do themselves consume,
diversity do sap, degrade,
beneath their own feet grass cut, womb
do poison, through pollution sp(r) ayed.

3 January 1992 & 11 March 2005