My Plea

Opinion & Commentary

Snowy field and evergreens

My Plea

Wake up humans! Mother Earth, who sustains us, is in grave danger. In poetry or prose, make your plea for the planet. Change minds, inspire action! [Photo by Nils Rasmusson on Unsplash]

Submissions

  • Footprints

    December 21,

    The rebirth of the winter,

    The certainty that when you wake up

    Nothing has changed except for

    The season. 

    And maybe,

    Some snow has found your doorstep.

     

    Except,

  • They Are Watching Us

    They are watching us, if that’s what it takes. They are waiting, waiting, waiting, for our decisions that will mean their life or death, and that of their planet. We can wait, watch, hope they are able to do it themselves. Or.

  • All I Know

    All I know

    Is this is a winter I don’t know

    All the crow know

    Stand’n on open leaf

    Cock’n head in disbelief

     

    Is this winter she don’t know

  • Change

    Change can be scary,

    but it must be achieved.

    Determination is the best tool

    to change how we live.

    If you are afraid to change,

    that's okay.

    Change isn't easy,

    but it must be done.

  • Mother Earth

    mother nature she is called – mother earth

    yet what kind of mother is she?

    letting her children hurt themselves and their brothers

    letting them kill each other for entertainment, for "food"

  • What a Shame...

    What a shame-

    that our world shows us such kindness,

    and we turn around and stab her in the back.

    We don't deserve her.

     

    Traitors: that's what we are,

    to overlook the life she brings