Truth to power,
Defending Mother’s
Sacred family,
Threatened, endangered
Fauna, flora, ecosystems.
Twenty twenty-three,
Fossil fuel’d heatwaves
December thru February
Endlessly,
Fossil fuel’d droughts
Fossil fuel’d hellfires,
Chile SOS!
‘O Regal Ones
Prithee, don’t leave!
Since Two thousand sixteen,
One hundred seventy-eight
Perished
Majesties,
Forcibly disgorged,
Thirteen Atlantic states.
Days old
North Atlantic Right,
An eye blink,
Gaunt “Sea of Darkness”
Big Oil’s
Ear-splitting cannons,
Horror-struck
Doomed whales!
Twenty twenty-two,
Carbon ignition
Fossil fuel, wood pellet, palm oil
Record burning,
Oceans stockpiling HEAT!
Her Royal Highness,
Youthful
Innocent
Playful
Curious
Hungry
Entangled,
Rodanthe, North Carolina.
Intelligent, self-aware
Playful, empathetic
Curious, sad
Sophisticated speakers,
Joyous, compassionate
Loving grievers,
Breathtaking radar
Echolocationers,
Incomparable climate solvers,
Delightful coexisters,
The dolphins!
Dearest brothers, sisters
Crab-eating macaques
(SE Asian monkeys),
Matriarchal society,
Tool-makers,
Sacred mammals!
Doom’d humpback,
Mighty Moon
Lone traveller
British Columbia to Maui,
Pure grit!
Stuff brimming,
Wretch’d hurrying vessel
Smash’d her spine,
Five thousand
Agonising kilometres,
Three months
All strength!
Ripping up Mother
Gold extracting,
Canadian Belo Sun Mining,
Largest open-pit goldfield
Heart of rainforest,
‘O Amazon!
Mysterious friends
Flightless seabirds
Leaping swimmers
Sardine squid krill fishers
Cold experts
Twenty sun orbits,
Full lives.
Glorious Victorian Alps
‘O Mount Stirling,
Thank thee
Snow gums,
Ageless secrets
Revealed,
Numen!
Currawong calls
Cockatoo gangs
Elegant flaming robins
(My BFFs!),
Spring snow gum flushing
Regal red ribbons
Burly broad-leafed ascenders,
The High Country keepers!
Mortimer J. Buckley,
Vanguard Group CEO,
Wants MORE,
$7 trillion
Ain’t enough,
Obscene evilness!