(((Ecology Forgotten?))) Poem by Theodora (Theo) Onken

So still 'tis this city...
While factories pour out their silent smoke into the air...
They are the true Dragons of this metro...
Moving while the populous 'tis sleeping unaware! ;

They throw out their pollution into our enviroment...
The vapors skip and float 'round this town...
'Tis in the name of progress they let go of the pollutents...
Ecology finds it abhorant and unsound;

Where once the tender vegetation grew evergreen--
In the parks where pristine lakes used to be...
A fountain 'tis all but dried up with hazardous waste-
As my pen to paper writes words into visuals you can see;

A statue of an Angel overlooks this city...
A Guardian with an Eternal Smile...
In a town without pity-the smog it suffocates-black and gritty-
And our green gardens are put out of style;

*This is a write about one of my passions.
While i live in an area where the air quality is still
Fairly good...soon it will not be.
For there is a proposal for a Coal Plant to be built
About 30 miles from here due West...Tenaska. We will get
What is in the air. Eventually it will settle into our
Water supplies as well.
Also, there is a Nuclear Waste Dump going into
Lubbuck which is also close. And if that is not enough
There is now a proposal for another Nuclear Plant
In this state. The enviroment is dying. We are a toxic
Nation. When is this maddness going to stop?
All in the name of the mighty dollar when we have
Alternative energy sources here now with more to come
In the future...wind power, solar power.

June 12,2010