– sound-dream @ tumblr
Ship of Fools
God’s ten thousand things
Elements that swirl
Oasis in space
This dear ship of fools
Rusty and leaking
Decades of misuse
Hellbent destruction
As we build our tombs
Rabid lemmings run*
Deny there’s an edge
Idiocy’s race
Bullets in the gun
Pointed at Earth’s head
Afterlife to come
Back to molecules
Cosmic carbon plumes
I’d like to thank Paul at Paul’s Poetry Playground for highlighting the Octameter form recently, because I liked the look of it so much I had to try one.
*I’d also like to thank Glenn Buttkus at Feel Free to Read for a comment he made on my dVerse poem today. Glenn, I hope you don’t mind me using what you said in your comment in this poem. If you do, please let me know!
Nekneeraj is the host of Mindlovemisery Menagerie’s Photo Challenge. Nekneeraj says:
Use above image as inspiration for a poem or short story. Thank you, Nekneeraj, for the wonderful photo as a writing prompt.
I also want to link this second poem on the Climate Crisis prompt from Anmol (alias HA) to dVerse.
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Great poem, Jade… a very bleak outlook!
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Dwight, thank you. I really really wish it wasn’t so.
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Yes!
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Rage on sister Lisa! We are a ship of fools, paddling right over the climate waterfall…
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Yes we are… Thanks for your great comments, Rob, you rock.
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Wonderful poem Li.
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Thank you, Sadje. Glad you liked it.
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Incisive words, Li!
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Thank you very much.
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You are welcome.
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“bullets in the gun pointed at Earth’s head” – such a powerful image.
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Sarah, thank you for reading and commenting.
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Li I like that line, “Rabid lemmings run”.
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Yes, Glenn coined the term, and I “stole it like an artist” (with attribution, of course!)
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Wonderful form, MsJadeLI!
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Yes, I really like this form also! Will be using it again for sure.
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an interesting poetry form for sure! I liked your poem!
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I feel the tremors of rage in your words, especially how you have crafted the images here — “Back to molecules” is perhaps the only end we can anticipate right now. Well penned!
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Thank you so much, Anmol. I do feel this may be the case, as unfortunate as it is. Why should all other life on the planet perish because of what we do. Humans are the common denominator of danger to Mother Earth.
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Such vivid lines, especially these:
This dear ship of fools
Rusty and leaking
Decades of misuse
Hellbent destruction
As we build our tombs
…
Bullets in the gun
Pointed at Earth’s head
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Thank you, Dr. Grimes.
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