.png)
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