Poems about Pollution
#pollution
Poems about pollution, here you'll find poetry about humans poisoning planet earth. Our modern way of life has introduced harmful polluting substances into the environment. Poems offering a range of views on pollution, and the extent to which humans are harming the natural world.
missjem56
Poem Published
6th Nov 2023 4:38pm
6th Nov 2023 4:38pm
A Multitude Of Curses
In the last few years
Of withering tears
We experienced Brexit
And the fragmentation, that came with it
Then the Pandemic, full forsworn
As we all became forcibly withdrawn
Then the war in the Ukraine
With the fear of nuclear intervention again
And the obvious worries, and realistic fears
As the worst of climate change nears
Along with the subsequent massive price rises
That has left black holes, and unwanted surprises
In now empty purses
And a multitude of curses
by Jemia
Of withering tears
We experienced Brexit
And the fragmentation, that came with it
Then the Pandemic, full forsworn
As we all became forcibly withdrawn
Then the war in the Ukraine
With the fear of nuclear intervention again
And the obvious worries, and realistic fears
As the worst of climate change nears
Along with the subsequent massive price rises
That has left black holes, and unwanted surprises
In now empty purses
And a multitude of curses
by Jemia
#war
#pollution
#LifeChangingMoment
#poverty
#pandemic
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missjem56
Poem Published
24th Oct 2023 8:09pm
24th Oct 2023 8:09pm
Off Your Head
To the decision makers
And morality breakers
Pretend your head
Is planet Earth
And imagine
If some of your inhabitants
Of your planet head
Be they internal, or external
Start uprooting bits of you
Digging, and drilling
Tipping noxious chemicals
All over
Cutting arteries
And changing their natural flow
And generally
Messing around with your head
Then come the wars
And bombs
And blood
Your planet head
Would soon be dead.......
by Jemia
And morality breakers
Pretend your head
Is planet Earth
And imagine
If some of your inhabitants
Of your planet head
Be they internal, or external
Start uprooting bits of you
Digging, and drilling
Tipping noxious chemicals
All over
Cutting arteries
And changing their natural flow
And generally
Messing around with your head
Then come the wars
And bombs
And blood
Your planet head
Would soon be dead.......
by Jemia
#earth
#environment
#pollution #LifeChangingMoment
#pollution #LifeChangingMoment
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missjem56
Poem Published
11th Oct 2023 11:37am
11th Oct 2023 11:37am
Being Human(e)
I was talking
To Gaia
The other day
(You may know her better
As Mother Earth)
Anyway
She suddenly said
"You know that saying?"
"Mad
Bad
And dangerous to know!"
I said " Yes"
She said
"That's you lot,
Humanity!"
by Jemia
To Gaia
The other day
(You may know her better
As Mother Earth)
Anyway
She suddenly said
"You know that saying?"
"Mad
Bad
And dangerous to know!"
I said " Yes"
She said
"That's you lot,
Humanity!"
by Jemia
#earth
#environment
#pollution #humankind
#pollution #humankind
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missjem56
Poem Published
4th Sep 2023 4:14pm
4th Sep 2023 4:14pm
Exhausted
I can hear the wind
Whistling quietly
Through my lightly opened window
As the cool breeze sweeps through
And gently cools my legs
Also reminding me
That it is time
To close my window
And pull down the blinds
Closing out the cold
And the outside world
Such as the sounds
Of early evening traffic
I am now left alone
In my silence
And my solitude
I switch on the radio
Not really listening
But appreciate the company
Then my ears pick up the words
'Climate change'
(The planet is tired)
A...
Whistling quietly
Through my lightly opened window
As the cool breeze sweeps through
And gently cools my legs
Also reminding me
That it is time
To close my window
And pull down the blinds
Closing out the cold
And the outside world
Such as the sounds
Of early evening traffic
I am now left alone
In my silence
And my solitude
I switch on the radio
Not really listening
But appreciate the company
Then my ears pick up the words
'Climate change'
(The planet is tired)
A...
#environment
#pollution
#nature #philosophical
#nature #philosophical
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1 Comment
Michaelpoet
Poem Published
11th Aug 2023 2:48am
11th Aug 2023 2:48am
Steam From Radiator
I sat on the porch as a flower bloomed on a beautiful spring day.
News of a shooting filled the air from within the living room.
My thoughts ebb and flow as the economy takes a turn for the worse.
Could a hurricane be the planet suffering from a flu caused by all the chemicals pumped out on a daily basis?
Buildings are giant tombstones that house the working class who are slowly dying with each fax that is sent.
We have elected fallible human beings to fix a world created by a divinity in whom there is no failure.
News of a shooting filled the air from within the living room.
My thoughts ebb and flow as the economy takes a turn for the worse.
Could a hurricane be the planet suffering from a flu caused by all the chemicals pumped out on a daily basis?
Buildings are giant tombstones that house the working class who are slowly dying with each fax that is sent.
We have elected fallible human beings to fix a world created by a divinity in whom there is no failure.
#murder
#violence
#pollution
#poverty
#vulnerability
239 reads
2 Comments
Abracadabra
Poem Published
16th Jul 2023 7:41am
16th Jul 2023 7:41am
Guilty
Wheeling above
a lone gull cries
as a killer's reflection
stares back
from the rockpool at my feet
There is no life
only jagged grey plastic
with grubby green stubble
washed and unwashed
by each stinking tide
I barely recognise
the boy in short trousers
who caught blennies
and gobies here
kept crabs in a bucket
rushing to Mum
with a five pointed star
Only the rocks look the same
crouched sterner than naked time
pouring scorn on our madness
while the wind screams murder
into my eyes
a lone gull cries
as a killer's reflection
stares back
from the rockpool at my feet
There is no life
only jagged grey plastic
with grubby green stubble
washed and unwashed
by each stinking tide
I barely recognise
the boy in short trousers
who caught blennies
and gobies here
kept crabs in a bucket
rushing to Mum
with a five pointed star
Only the rocks look the same
crouched sterner than naked time
pouring scorn on our madness
while the wind screams murder
into my eyes
#environment
#pollution
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MidnightSonneteer
Poem Published
3rd Jun 2023 9:19am
3rd Jun 2023 9:19am
The Republican;
Here we understood to be a soul
Who long ago gave a damn for justice,
But craved much more power and control
Than the Roman emperor Augustus!
So much it meant for him to be the boss
That no other determinant mattered.
And so with time, and the Christian cross,
They made all ethics brutally scattered.
Yet still they claimed the high ground moral,
Represented by president Trump,
Who's as deadly blanched as pacific coral,
Soaking, in a petrochemical dump.
And if you think that there's a future...
Who long ago gave a damn for justice,
But craved much more power and control
Than the Roman emperor Augustus!
So much it meant for him to be the boss
That no other determinant mattered.
And so with time, and the Christian cross,
They made all ethics brutally scattered.
Yet still they claimed the high ground moral,
Represented by president Trump,
Who's as deadly blanched as pacific coral,
Soaking, in a petrochemical dump.
And if you think that there's a future...
#politics
#pollution
288 reads
8 Comments
MidnightSonneteer
Poem Published
9th May 2023 11:09pm
9th May 2023 11:09pm
Treason of Speech
We are jacks of the sabotage trade
Who can't help but to destructively test
All that nature has lovingly made
Including the gift of language addressed
Toward all the things for granted we took
Like worthy schools of untainted thought
Paid forward with a sustainable book
Where ancient nuance was quickly forgot
Or banned by factions of malice and greed
Fostering stupid like it was a crop
That every ape didn't know it would need
Until encouraged to needlessly shop
The sick ideation markets of gain...
Not giving a damn for personal...
Who can't help but to destructively test
All that nature has lovingly made
Including the gift of language addressed
Toward all the things for granted we took
Like worthy schools of untainted thought
Paid forward with a sustainable book
Where ancient nuance was quickly forgot
Or banned by factions of malice and greed
Fostering stupid like it was a crop
That every ape didn't know it would need
Until encouraged to needlessly shop
The sick ideation markets of gain...
Not giving a damn for personal...
#corruption
#politics
#pollution
#ignorance
#deception
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MidnightSonneteer
Poem Published
5th May 2023 8:49pm
5th May 2023 8:49pm
Prognostication
Guns and money have much evil to share
As enablers of a loveless bearing
And both betray the way they do not care
About how well we humans are faring,
In our short time above the soil,
Which we devote to the broadcast squabble
Of blighting well water for more oil
To grease us from birth to final hobble.
Spinning along, The Earth will not complain,
But pass along bad choice cost instead
Until everybody feels her pain
As premonition for what lies ahead;
Global glories in ruin and ash
As we would not forego the bombs...
As enablers of a loveless bearing
And both betray the way they do not care
About how well we humans are faring,
In our short time above the soil,
Which we devote to the broadcast squabble
Of blighting well water for more oil
To grease us from birth to final hobble.
Spinning along, The Earth will not complain,
But pass along bad choice cost instead
Until everybody feels her pain
As premonition for what lies ahead;
Global glories in ruin and ash
As we would not forego the bombs...
#war
#pollution
#ignorance
289 reads
2 Comments
PaleSkies
Poem Published
11th Mar 2023 5:35pm
11th Mar 2023 5:35pm
Used-to-be Coal Cracker
Beam me up, Scotty, on my knucklehead Harley."
Do I look like a papoose or Mona Lisa with a smile
I'm the Lone Ranger and he ain't my friggin' Kawliga,
he is my Kemosabe and I ride a solid white Kia
so get off my Bubba Ho-tep, thinking me Elvis
or eat my silver bullets on the keno table, thinking
it's a Code Red, "riding my pony on the reservation"
smack dab in a bag of Cheetos with your name on it
because simply, you will be dead.
"Hi-Yo, Silver! Away!" But built low to the asphalt.
...
Do I look like a papoose or Mona Lisa with a smile
I'm the Lone Ranger and he ain't my friggin' Kawliga,
he is my Kemosabe and I ride a solid white Kia
so get off my Bubba Ho-tep, thinking me Elvis
or eat my silver bullets on the keno table, thinking
it's a Code Red, "riding my pony on the reservation"
smack dab in a bag of Cheetos with your name on it
because simply, you will be dead.
"Hi-Yo, Silver! Away!" But built low to the asphalt.
...
#politics
#pollution
#ignorance #hypocrisy
#ignorance #hypocrisy
271 reads
11 Comments
PaleSkies
Poem Published
5th Mar 2023 10:31pm
5th Mar 2023 10:31pm
Get Off My Planet
One shan't ignore bellowin' woods
and obscenities of caging the canary,
let common sense ring beneath wings
even if you are from the middle class.
A-tisket, a-tasket, don't cherish it,
get off my planet you tone-deaf freak,
your game will end in the form of Jesus,
hoodwinked by the Man from Galilee.
And crows will hum and sum it up,
one doesn't Cheeto with a knife
and crap in their own basket,
playing with death's weed whacker.
So! zombie it up, living in a cocoon ...
and obscenities of caging the canary,
let common sense ring beneath wings
even if you are from the middle class.
A-tisket, a-tasket, don't cherish it,
get off my planet you tone-deaf freak,
your game will end in the form of Jesus,
hoodwinked by the Man from Galilee.
And crows will hum and sum it up,
one doesn't Cheeto with a knife
and crap in their own basket,
playing with death's weed whacker.
So! zombie it up, living in a cocoon ...
#corruption
#pollution
#ignorance #deception
#ignorance #deception
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2 Comments
MidnightSonneteer
Poem Published
9th Feb 2023 7:09pm
9th Feb 2023 7:09pm
Anthropocene
When all that's done with voracious troops
Is to guard invisible borders
And blindly follow evil orders
From a minority of bourgeois dupes
We add useless lines to a map
Whose topography doesn't care
Any more than the boundless air
Flowing in and out of every chap.
So let's get those chaps to go to work
To clean the plastic from the sea
And replant every burned out tree
Burned by another careless jerk.
No doubt as careless as those who sell
Crude oil pumped from...
Is to guard invisible borders
And blindly follow evil orders
From a minority of bourgeois dupes
We add useless lines to a map
Whose topography doesn't care
Any more than the boundless air
Flowing in and out of every chap.
So let's get those chaps to go to work
To clean the plastic from the sea
And replant every burned out tree
Burned by another careless jerk.
No doubt as careless as those who sell
Crude oil pumped from...
#politics
#pollution
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