Tag: global warming

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 22, 201911:34 am

Abstract Fish, Palau De Les Arts, Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències, Valencia, Spain

Earth Day

I dreamt there’d be a day
In some none too distant future
When an architectural abstraction
Outlived all the fishes in the sea

Now I cannot sleep

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJan 29, 20191:22 pm

mount athabasca, jasper national park, alberta, canada

Glacial ‘Til

In a land of ever ice
The snow survived
The summer heat
Since long before
Both you and I

The glaciers die
The cold retreats
To summer’s entreat
They’re gone before
Both you and I

Poetry by Patrick JenningsNov 28, 201810:09 pm

All the Sky was Smoke

The creatures toiled
Upon the land
They built machines
To ease the work
Created engines
To drive the cogs
And fueled it all
With all that burned

For every thing
The creatures made
Five other things
Were thrown away

For every turn
Of every cog
The fuel they burned
Created smog

‘Til over time
Before too long
In fact, before
The fuel was gone

Their world could not
Sustain their waste
The climate changed
With break neck pace

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJun 20, 20183:24 pm

Sun Burst, Howe Sound, Sea to Sky Gondola, Squamish, British Columbia, Canada

After the Oil Boom

Well I dreamed I saw the clouds
And the heat waves coming.
Wretched mad man on my mind
When the sun burst through the skies.
There was my heart there singin’ in the light
But I felt like I could cry.
Look at mother nature on the run
In the twenty seventeen.

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMar 13, 20184:21 pm

Storm Clouds, Rocky Mountains, Trans Canada Highway, British Columbia, Canada

Too Late and Far Too Much

It tastes like despair
The air
Like defeat and despair
The charged atmosphere
Alive after the months
Of dead, dry heat

Thunder rolls
Across the parchment plains

Rain is coming
Too late
And far too much

What little soil remains
After wind storms
And dust clouds
Carried the best of it
Off to the East
Will wash away
Rivulets cutting small canyons
Deep into the earth