Cyan represents a mixture of green and blue. In the context of these four poems below, cyan is symbolic of planet earth. The Poet’s call is to save the earth. These four poems written as dizains with an ababbccdcd rhyme scheme are a call for climate action in the wake of climate change.
POEM 1:
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
POEM 2:
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
POEM 3:
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
POEM 4:
Mantra
we are here to always heal and to guard
for this is our solo song and mantra
to heal mother earth who has been so scarred
to guard and to preserve all her strata
found across all her acres and aqua
to dominate while being kind at heart
to be a blessing and to do our part
to multiply and not to diminish
to impart on the earth till we depart
to replenish and not to extinguish
