Tag Archives: environment

Poem: ‘Green’ published by Snakeskin

September 5, 2019Life, nature, poem, Poetry, Scienceenvironment, green, poem, poetry, published poem, science poetryThe Cheesesellers Wife

I have another published poem! Thank you to Tristran Moss for including my poem ‘Green’ in the Environs issue of Snakeskin:

http://www.snakeskinpoetry.co.uk/

Ghost ocean

June 29, 2019Ghosts, nature, poem, PoetryDeath, environment, Ghosts, nature, Ocean, plastic pollution, poem, poetryThe Cheesesellers Wife

Waves throw up on the shore
remnants of ocean lives
tangles of plastic
debris from both sides
of a blurring boundary.
Revealing hints of the diversity underneath
and of the death we impose.

Sunday in Spring

June 1, 2019beauty, England, nature, poem, Poetry, springtime, Wild lifeEco-disaster, England, environment, nature, poem, poetry, rooks, spring, wildlifeThe Cheesesellers Wife

Two fields over, Rooks argue
a raucous parley that
goes on and on and on
while other birds sing prettily

Here in the meadow we have knelt
as if worshipping
to peer at tiny pink blooms
wobbling on a frail stem

On the way home
we walk a green lane
lambs call behind a hawthorn hedge
a ewe responds, deep voiced

Pretty bird song
clamorous rooks, bountiful sheep
tremulous flower

Are all remnants
Of a greater whole
Nature worn ragged

Broken
By our actions
Or inactions

And I feel the need to
kneel once more
in supplication
and in fear

Poem: Sun dogs

January 26, 2019nature, philosophy, poem, Poetry, Scienceenvironment, Life, philosophy, poem, poetryThe Cheesesellers Wife

Not the sun itself
but phantom stars in the day.
Mother star’s puppies, mock suns,
illusions as the Sun plays
with high soaring crystals of ice,
they light the horizon.
So illusions of celebrity brighten myriad lives,
but only on the margins.

Sun dogs all.

Brief bloom

February 28, 2018astronomy, beauty, cosmology, Life, nature, philosophy, poem, Poetry, Science, Science Fiction Poetry, science poetry, speculative poetryastronomy, Earth, environment, hope, humanity, Life, NASA, nature, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Poetry, science poem, science poetry, solar system, space, speculative poetry, sun, Technology, travel, volcanoThe Cheesesellers Wife

We are a brief bloom
On the fragile skin
Of a molten body
Encircling a massive furnace

We are a blossoming of sentience
With encrusted technologies
Craving wonder, hoping for company
Seeking knowledge and excitement

We truly are stardust
Our bodies built from atoms
Forged in successive stellar explosions
We crave the glories of the Universe

We are Human

Re-blogged from last year

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160510.html

Islands

February 17, 2018philosophy, poem, Poetryclimate change, environment, global warming, Life, No man is an island, poetry, science poemThe Cheesesellers Wife

If every man is an island and each woman too,
what of rising tides and the oncoming sea?
Icebergs drop into frigid waters releasing their fresh water load
corals bleach and die, damaging encircling protective reefs
plastics pervade our ocean to clog, choke and kill.
A tsunami of ill news, a tempest of emotions.

The tide is coming in,
where is your causeway?