"Climate Change" and Other Poems

By Yewande Akinse

(Instagram, Twitter and Facebook: @adwande )

"Climate Change"

Climate change is neither a joke nor myth

but a vast myriad of consequences

human activity has plunged earth’s width

into crisis. Collapsing defenses

expel famine, flood, fire evidences

tell tale signs of a depleting planet

fast vanishing is the ozone blanket

as greenhouse gases engulf the sky's blue

truly cascading down like a comet.

we will save earth together, me and you.

Together

we will save earth together, me and you

from the way of decline and extinction

as true stewards of sea and of soil do

this here is our absolute conviction

for this earth is our sole jurisdiction

till we find another place to plunder

it is the substance our feet stay under

listen all, and desecrate not forthwith

for earth is art, home, tome and is wonder

earth is mother, not a goblet for filth.

Earth is Mother

earth is mother, not a goblet for filth

earth, a founding member of our household

a tender partner we so exist with

she is both our cornerstone and threshold

to have and own verily in freehold

save the earth from this looming extinction

refrain from every mindless pollution

treat mother earth with much care and regard

let this resound far without restriction

we are here to always heal and to guard.

About The Author:

Yewande Akinse is a Poet and Author of two collections of poems titled, “A tale of being, of green and of ing” (2019) and Voices: A collection of poems that tell stories (2016).

Her poems have appeared in Clay Literary, Trampset, Galleyway, Afritondo, Shuf Poetry, Galleyway, Nightingale and Sparrow, The Creative Zine, Tampered Press, Moremi Review, The Open Culture Collective, Visual Verse, The Agam Agenda, Konya Shamsrumi, Sevhage and elsewhere.

Connect with her on Twitter: @ADwande or on her website yewande.me