Ten thousand years ago trapped in the ice Tiny bubbles of air frozen don't move Slow moving mountains of ice cut and slice Scoring bedrock with many a deep groove
Great whales ruled the oceans of ages past Woolly Mammoths thundered over the plains Where primitive man during this time massed Huddled in caves learns how fire maintains
The ice is almost gone as glaciers melt And the last of the great bears appear doomed How the little creature called man is knelt Hovels while the dying embers consume
Our progression is not measured in time For what we do to our earth is a crime
"How the little creature called man is knelt Hovels while the dying embers consume"
Well said Yankee.
windyweatherlySan Francisco, California USAApr 6, 2012
Yap Yankee, I was wondering if anybody really can compute the litters that are producing toxic on our poor environment. And that is because we are a product of commercialism to buy and use convenience...at the expense of the mother earth...
RedexNorthumberland, England UKApr 7, 2012
I liked your poem and so agree man is destroying things but as we read the history books the earth has always changed from ice age and back again with all the inbetweens, so we do not help but changes are inevatable I think.
Hi, Yankee4you, Huddled in caves learns how fire maintains has allowed humans to go viral, of the deadly variety, no longer taking only what is necessary to survive, respectful of sacrifices made by other life for that survival. Your sonnet cries out with love for our beautiful earth.
FellsmanLake District, Cumbria, England UKApr 7, 2012
Hi Yankee
Superbly constructed sonnet sending out alarm signals to all who might care to read - that this planet is almost past the PNR (PNR being an aeronautical term Point of No Return).
Short of a radical birth control programme to reduce the world population by some 90%, it's had to come up with any answers.
Regards
Bill
FellsmanLake District, Cumbria, England UKApr 7, 2012
oops - make that HARD to come up with any answers...
I know Bill....more and more energy consumed via ways that destroy the very foundation of that life...so senseless
morgen90210singapore, Central Singapore SingaporeAug 12, 2019
My dear friend Yankee4you Written 7 years ago Now the world taken noticed If only they heeded your words
Its true the world tries to ratify What human errors have done Thats why the rain and storms Floods and hurricanes comes
Thank you for sharing
lovecanberealSydney, New South Wales AustraliaAug 14, 2019
Suffer the little children. Suffer the animals. (Through no fault of their own). When will dumb mankind learn that greed is NOT good? Also, how about some birth control here folks? Or is all of this too sensible?
7 years later and it continues on. Now they are changing the laws for animals that are on the Endangered Species list. Stepping up lumbering - marine life full of plastic - hurricanes growing stronger and stronger - more extreme floods each year - but Oh No - this is just the earth going through it's normal cycle it goes through every so million of years. Never mind that that cycle has sped up by several millions of years. Thanks for sharing. I missed it before as was not on CS back then.
Kathy
EXREDNorthumberland, England UKAug 14, 2019
Good poem to ponder, the earth and whoever or whatever inhibits adjusts or goes under.
Doesn't stop us keeping earth clean and conserving energies for future generations. Even then the earths changes will always be one way or tother.
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Hovels while the dying embers consume"
Well said Yankee.
Huddled in caves learns how fire maintains has allowed humans to go viral, of the deadly variety, no longer taking only what is necessary to survive, respectful of sacrifices made by other life for that survival. Your sonnet cries out with love for our beautiful earth.
Superbly constructed sonnet sending out alarm signals to all who might care to read - that this planet is almost past the PNR (PNR being an aeronautical term Point of No Return).
Short of a radical birth control programme to reduce the world population by some 90%, it's had to come up with any answers.
Regards
Bill
Written 7 years ago
Now the world taken noticed
If only they heeded your words
Its true the world tries to ratify
What human errors have done
Thats why the rain and storms
Floods and hurricanes comes
Thank you for sharing
Kathy
Doesn't stop us keeping earth clean and conserving energies for future generations. Even then the earths changes will always be one way or tother.
enjoyed pondering and reading