Parallel

 

The incessant catastrophes 
of war and climate change
continue to devastate much
of our world

Some are spared the
desolations of conflict but
climate change is global

Which hosts our most dominant fear?

Climate changes are prolonged
and the path persistent, the
metamorphose anxiety inducing,
soon to be alarming

War is immediate, here now,
Its atrocities visual worldwide
The losses, death, destruction,
dislocation, refugees, hunger,
annihilation

Immediate
Now

Ellecee

Day 29 - NaPoWriMo 2024

Prompt: Climate or War - the bigger problem

From: TP_Poetry

Hibernate

 

What can I do?

What I can’t do is

elementary

FrustrationI am not a politician or

a person of power

A delegated one who

changes circumstances 

Is that what 

delegates do?

I can’t or I don’t want 

to understand

Ebrahim Raisi

Isaac Herzog

Or any other combatants

willing to lay waste

I can’t change the

deep despondency 

proliferating among us

like another plague

And so on

and so on

What can “I” do?

Hibernate

Ellecee

Day 15 - NaPoWriMo 2024
Prompt “what can I do?”
from TP_Poetry

Cabined

“but now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in to saucy doubts and fears” 

William Shakespeare - Macbeth

Today I graft with  

words in homage to
the Bard

whose language lives

to this day and bears

truth to every happening

 Now I  am cabined here alone

cribbed by a hovering virus

Confined with my own thoughts

how one cunning crazed maniac 
could kill 22 without restraint

Our townsmen and guardians

fallen and gone

Incongruity abounds

Saucy doubts and fears

reign unfettered

during this

unearthly time

Ellecee

Inspired by

imaginary garden with real toads -the Bard
and
Skywriting -  cunning