Plans for Planet

My Blog Action Day Post:

(This piece is a very old poem I wrote about 3 years ago -- before climate change became an environmental issue. I thought it would suit the theme of environmental awareness)


Autumn MD

Sweet Serenity
The leaves on the weeping trees
Are scrying for me;
To join them forever ---
The eternity of fall.

Fall;
Frisky, feathery flight ---
Dancing in autumn delight.
She blows you but one kiss that
Tastes of bark and burning clove.
Smokey resistance;
Flirting on the brink.
Take another drink,
Toast to the harvest moon.
Opens her legs only to trees
Scares the leaves, birds, and bees.
Joined you with a warm smile
To leave you cold, shivering
And exposed.
She’s a fiesty delight, bi-polar
opposed.
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We're in a world where fall means high wind/huricaine season, and winter is a lot milder than it was (way back?) in the nineties. Summer tsunamis because our junkyard ocean can't handle the pressure of hundreds/thousands of dying species, the grief is thick withall. Spring doesn't bring the same things it used to when insects move northward and destroy ecosystems. Our planet is dying, and we have no plan to save it.