Malignant Poem by Mike Smith
Malignant
Mine, extract, burn, destroy
Sell it, ship it, troops deploy
Profit endless, pure black gold
A billion barrels daily sold
Suffer, pollute, incinerate, exhaust
Nature weeping, finds herself lost
Warmer, hotter, boiling blood
Rising ocean, coastal flood
Climate changing, most ignoring
'Global warming? That's just boring'
For what reason? Just one answer
Earth is a being, humans are cancer
Man is not helping the current situation, true. But, if you go to the NASA website and do any basic research on sunspot activity and the various cycles you will find a lot of the things happening are only following predetermined patterns. In Roman times the UK was so hot grapes were grown in the north of England and in the 19th century regular frost fares were held in London when the Thames was frozen over for months on end. I am not a card carrying climate change denier, man is not helping, but it is not all down to us, a lot of it is natural cycles which would happen anyway. Puts on tin helmet, flak jacket and ducks below the parapet!
You seem to have a bent towards the issues of the day in your poetry. This one is intense and flows very well
I really like how you adapted this to a poem. Meaningful, prophetic and accusatory. Humans are a disease and Earth's immune system doesn't seem up to the challenge
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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Gosh I hear you Mike.excellant poem. I love the line line and Kellys comment about it. Mother Earth would be justified in snubbing us all out. You sum up the present state of the world so succiently. Thanks.10