Tuesday, April 17, 2018

Even if the Cities on the Coast


April 18, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Earth Day, which is celebrated on April 22nd.

Today’s poem is a poem for Earth Day about the survival of life on a devastated Earth.

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Even if the cities on the coast
Are inundated by the rising seas,
Ravaged dunes and barrier beaches lost
To tides that top steel berms and stunted trees,
Heat reaches for the poles, and life goes on,
Devastated, yes, surviving still,
As in times past whole habitats were drowned,
Yet this time only by an act of will.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/evenif.html. For more poems for Earth Day, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/earthdaypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Earth Day

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