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Hoe to get through
each day a hazard

Where have we come
in sixty years

Beauty and Beast

I am lovely and kind

though I don’t always

have the best thoughts

Dragon love scares me

Alpha invader attacks me

takes over my life

Everyday is a challenge

to find freedom from

numerous onslaughts

It is time to give it up

how much can one do

to stave off the misery

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Last Rays

Great Blue
over the roof
gold glides

I’ve never been stuck in this room before!

Slats closed against setting sun

sun still steels through everything

the heat’s on, the shadows cooling

now its pinking down

soft and gentle

The Sky

So many layers
I observe from
morning through
afternoon, evening
into night

Now night the sky
so many layers
ink and clouds
catching white
it moves the sky

Weed

I weed through the day

pulling away unwanted thistles

that stick to my clothes

I love to garden

I weed away mellow

in my pursuit to tug

unwanted offenders

that crop up everywhere

They are takeovers

our prized plants choked

I feel like a slum lord

Crisis 350

Once called global warming

now the moniker is climate change

whatever the name it forebodes badly

Too much C02 in the atmosphere

350 parts per million is optimum

400ppm is what we have now

severe climactic events abound

around the world we must stop

burning fossil fuels to  survive

The industries only want to keep on

producing toxic levels of carbons

it is their easiest profit margins

We are melting, seas rising 

storms the like of which we’ve seen

storms like we’ve never seen before

Take up the cudgel world, we MUST END

this severe threat to life as we know it

a threat that could end all life

In honor of Bill McKibben 350.org