I recall the flying doctor,
bespectacled by polished
glass-fragments of fallen stars,
who landed flat on his young tummy,
equipped with scalpels and other weapons of
native medicine.
His first-ever surgery was on a pregnant
calabash —over a fragile, stinking earth
ached constantly by a proud dancing tumour.
POEMS ABOUT SCIENCE
These are poems about science: computers, AI, robots, drones, advanced weapons, global warming, climate change, pollution, extinction events, deforestation, evolution, physics, chemistry, etc.
Within the CPU
by Michael R. Burch
Here the electronic rush of meaning,
......
One day far from now those who come far after us will look back and simply ask why?
Why we let the world simmer and die, they will ask us is why we took advantage of our gardens and meadows.
Why we slaughtered animals with mercy thins as thread why we’d murdered the plants and wildlife surrounding us?
They will ask why we let our world simmer and die why we forgot about everything except ourselves,
And we will have no answers for underneath the soot and ash, the tainted waters and winds
Are where the bodies that passed long ago now lie.
......
it has been
too long
since my
lonely
aching soul
has seen the sun
i yearn for its light
for the promise of what will be
to bring the joy it
......
Hurting from torture
The Earth whimpers to the skies
Who turn their frosty cheeks
Betrayed, the Earth weeps
Black ancient tears
......
One day far from now those who come far after us will look back and simply ask why?
Why we let the world simmer and die, they will ask us is why we took advantage of our gardens and meadows.
Why we slaughtered animals with mercy thins as thread why we’d murdered the plants and wildlife surrounding us?
They will ask why we let our world simmer and die why we forgot about everything except ourselves,
And we will have no answers for underneath the soot and ash, the tainted waters and winds
Are where the bodies that passed long ago now lie.
......
Cries from its voice.
On its face, a mask of demon,
And its countenance meanly dark.
The stars depart as Deluge stumbles.
Transmontane haloes quench their light
At the basement of valleys,
Retreating from the courage of waters.
Countenance of cornucopia,
......
A fent in the huge, rain-blooded gourd
of heaven pukes Deluge and dirt
upon these lands...
Angry heavens spit violently
downwards, towards hidden collieries of
harlotry — accompanied by Deluge and
white rage — satins of gold-lined thrones
become whited sepulchral flags.
POEMS ABOUT SCIENCE
These are poems about science: computers, AI, robots, drones, advanced weapons, global warming, climate change, pollution, extinction events, deforestation, evolution, physics, chemistry, etc.
Within the CPU
by Michael R. Burch
Here the electronic rush of meaning,
......
In the end!
After humanity has caught the last fish, after they dug up all that is left, after they cut down the last tree, and drank the last drop of clean water, only then will human beings see the devastation of their activities.
Our tears will not be enough
to hydrate and grow what we
reap and sow.
Only giving and forgiving ourselves will stop this disaster that is humanity.
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