Tag: poetry

December 4, 2023
Rhonda Cotsell

It’s Not the Same World

It feels now, as if we are just waiting. My world is the same old safe, seeming, and I make the same arguments to explain some things. The past is co-operatively fuzzy, re just how many bushfires, how much...

Australia, climate change, ecoanxiety, ecological emergency, extreme weather, fear for the future, leadership, personal journey, poetry

September 14, 2023
Steve Miller
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Deranged

Deranged, unbalanced, anxious, the earth cries and slouches toward infinity without a rudder, or barrels toward tomorrow, devastating the coast, flinging cars, this cancer born of progress, the tumor too much, too fast, too big to fail. A deep breath after a chaotic...

poetry

December 31, 2022
Nancy N. Sidhu

New Year 2023

The year completes herself, “I’m done now.” The New Year comes to take over our world, to enter our bodies and minds. She might pop up over the hill, singing, Or she emerges gently through parting clouds, She might stride down Main Street announcing herself, We never know who she is, what she...

poetry

here with dirt beneath my nails, by Lorna Reay

Here with dirt beneath my nailsand sweat upon my heated brow,the sweetness of the Earth assailsmy senses with the sense of Now. And something in my heart eruptsand brings a tear into my eye –how dazzling, shaking and abruptthe knowledge that this person ‘I’is vaster than the...

poetry

Anthropocene lullaby

A film poem by Janet Lees Janet Lees is a UK-based poet and lens-based artist, and voluntary poetry editor* for the Deep Adaptation Forum blog. In one way or another, all her work touches on what it feels like to be human in these unprecedented times. Her poetry has been published...

poetry

Parachute

by Mark Causey Your parachute did not open. Don’t panic, it does not help. Don’t waste what precious time is left On anger and recrimination. At this point, what does it matter who’s to blame? It won’t change the simple fact that Your parachute did not open. You are...

poetry, resilience

August 26, 2022
Mimmi

The face in the moon, by Mimmi

The bird tried to flutter away,Sounded like a flap and a snapThe wolf leaped just in timeTo make it sound like a chase prelude The sensational stories that are woven nowFor the coincidental chase flap and snapA chorus of chirps and quirksNo recording devise for these mortal ones Someone...

poetry

August 6, 2022
Sarah Tremlett

I Cannot be Human, by Sarah Tremlett

A poetry film by Sarah Tremlett exploring the human/animal relationship on a personal and planetary level. I Cannot be Human takes a stand against a human race that, through its leaders, doesn’t appear to be listening or solving the ecological crisis that overwhelms us every...

poetry

April 25, 2022
Rachel Clyne

This year needs us more than ever, by Rachel Clyne

It is not enough that wewrite these words,send thoughts & prayers,emoji hearts & tearful faces.What burns South todaywill flood North tomorrow. It is not enough to watchprogrammes, sign petitions,recycle & reduce.What we produce todaywill choke us tomorrow.We must plant a new kind...

poetry

March 3, 2022
Maxine Flasher-Düzgüneş

frambuesas chocolatadas (a cento of songs), by Maxine Flasher-Düzgünes

me sigues con amorsaid you’re going to Lisbonthe heart-shaped candy on my tonguelate weekends in a summer hazeby the pine trees, all the times wetook several transfers on the G line in a dream i know we never meant to fall outimminent you seem to beyou’ll hang the hearts black & dull...

poetry