Tag Archives: Climate crisis

When?

July 24, 2021climate, Corona, Life, poem, PoetryClimate crisis, Covid 19, hope, Life, poem, poetryThe Cheesesellers Wife

When this all settles
I will walk along a stony beach
Stepping across rock pools
Looking for fossils
Life has been here before and will be after

Nothing was ever certain
Life was always frail
A bubble has burst
But we will float again
Life is all we have, treasure its small joys

When this all settles
We must mourn the dead
Unpick our mistakes
Grieve for lost chances
Life for us should never be the same

We have another danger
That may take us all
This is a rehearsal
Now we must save our world
Our grandchildren must live and thrive

Urgency

July 19, 2021climate, poem, Poetryclimate change, Climate crisis, Death, Earthweal, floodsThe Cheesesellers Wife

The little urgencies of the day
scratch at our ankles

while our graves rush at us
mouths open
fanged with heat bubbles
rising rivers
devastation

hunger

Written for earthweal

Trees Hum

June 16, 2021climate, nature, poem, PoetryClimate crisis, nature, poem, poetry, treesThe Cheesesellers Wife

Trees hum, laugh, stand aloof
dark laughter haunts the storms
that come so frequently now.
See, the trees say, we told you so
we will all go together

Clench

June 2, 2021climate, poem, Poetryclimate, Climate crisis, Moon, poem, poetryThe Cheesesellers Wife

Look up tonight
see the Man in the Moon clench his teeth
see the Moon Rabbit run, run
away for what we do down here
the death we wreak, on others
on ourselves and the yet to be born

Rain

August 19, 2020climate, England, poem, Poetry, summerClimate crisis, poem, poetry, rain, summerThe Cheesesellers Wife

Delicious dampness, fresh scented grey,
Washing the stuffy warm weather away
My soul is a sponge, expanding when wet,
And sunshine’s a word I’d rather forget,
I like the newness of autumn (but its only July!)
The soggy clean clouds that fill up the sky
Change is the thing, after two weeks the same,
Filled with humid hot weather –Thank God for rain!

It is raining today and more is forecast. This year we have had many weeks of very hot humid weather. We English are not built for that……

Submitted to the Dverse Open Link Night.

Light from the shadows

February 6, 2020Life, nature, poem, PoetryClimate crisis, Earthweal, environment, Life, poem, poetry, renewalThe Cheesesellers Wife

Green shoots spring up in fire scorched land
deep roots are not reached by fire or frost
life on our blue globe lurks far and wide
in caves and at ocean bottom
in chemical pools
in basalt rock
life stirs
grows

Written in reponse to Earthweals challenge ‘Renewal’ at

https://earthweal.com/2020/02/03/weekly-challenge-renewal/

Please go and see what else is there!

Too hot, too hot

January 13, 2020Ghosts, Life, nature, poem, Poetry, Wild lifebush fires, climate change, Climate crisis, Earthweal, Ghosts, Life, nature, poem, poetry, wildlifeThe Cheesesellers Wife

Like tracks in the snow
Little lives go
In our melting

Not the poem I thought I was going to write, but the one that came. Another is brewing, but this one is for all the small lives lost in forest fires everyhere…..

Written in reponse to Earthweals challenge ‘Ghosts’ at

https://earthweal.com/2020/01/13/weekly-challenge-ghosts/

Please go and see what else is there!