Free Verse
Mother Earth
Mother Earth descends
In the dark depths of depression,
Weary, weeping, whining
And waiting with her heavy, harried heart,
Heaving in the throes of humiliation.
See our primal provider, perturbed,
Polluted, plundered and raped,
Panting in the pangs of human avarice!
Ominous clouds of conflict rise
From her beleaguered abdomen
As petty man impudently
Unleashes his inhumanity upon man!
Pernicious predators, from East to West,
Trample on her nudity, highlighting
The obscene opulence of the North,
And the crippling curse of
The indecent indigence of the South.
Dreams of debt forgiveness dance
Indolently and capriciously
On the dastardly delinquent scales
Of abject poverty and injustice,
While equal distribution parades
In the cloak of global retribution!
Mother Earth burns frenetically now
With opprobrium and disgust,
Shuddering and quaking with contempt
For her thoughtless, incestuous children.
Her violated virginity vies
For justice and regeneration
In unprecedented, vehement,
Violent vindication!
Her body convulses
In vengeful vindictive wrath,
Indiscriminately immolating
The innocent and the guilty,
The rich and the destitute
In the blind fury of her raging,
Tumultuous torrents of torrid tears!
Fiercely, she wields her trenchant glaive
Of acrimony and sudden death,
As man, meager, adopted child of high technology,
Pits his paltry energies against
The cataclysmic, omnipotent efficacy
Of her natural, mighty supremacy!
Paroxysmal tongues of avid flames
Keep leaping high and wide
To tumble back down again
In horrendous, chaotic ruins!
Eternity, enveloped in one fleeting moment,
Passes by in pain and anguish.
Now, the resplendent star of humility,
Reconciliation and redemption
Must strive, with faith, to smash
The shackles of despair and doom!
Morning
When, to the universal
Symphony, I hearken,
I perceive the twinkling rhythm of light.
In the mellow, morning murmur,
Nature awakens, like a nursling,
To the bewitching spell
Of a soft, soothing sun.
Dew drops dart down
The green edges of golden leaves,
Quivering, glistening with glee,
Whilst silver clouds set sail
Across the serene, scintillating sky, silently.
A radiant river, with restless ripples,
Runs round and round.
Hear the light, luxurious laughter
Of cheerful children chasing
Pure, innocent, resplendent dreams!
