April 19, 2021
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 22.
I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.
An Earth Day poem about the environmental damage of overpopulation:
One wishes Earth were not so decimated:
Viscera ripped open, entrails exposed,
Eden stripped bare, over-cultivated,
Returning cash crops as demand explodes.
Poor Earth! Raped and forced to bear the children,
Of whom but few can find milk at her breasts.
Poor children! Forced to wrestle with their brethren,
Undernourished brood of the unblessed.
Let Earth be, O humans! Let her be!
All of you, reduce your numbers now!
The Earth's goods could be shared more equally
If there were wealth enough to go around.
One wishes there were fewer to care more,
Needing less, that time might Earth restore.
© by Nicholas Gordon
To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/onewi.html. For more poems for Earth Day, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/earthdaypoems.html.
This week’s theme: Earth Day.
April 19: One Wishes Earth Were Not So Decimated
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