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

Angst

 

She lay quietly listening

for the latch to open

Her anxiety mounting

as each hour passed

His steak was over cooked

Nothing one could change

He threw his plate

into the garbage

He pushed her aside

and left

Her relief was short-lived

He would be drinking,

his animosity building

All his small resentments

morphing into monumental

insults

worthy of retributive justice

She should take flight,

hide

but where?

A woman in a war zone

alone in the darkness

 of night

Ellecee

Day 25 - NaPoWriMo 2024

Prompt: to be a woman in a war zone 

From: TP_Poetry

Truce

We are warring

Such hostility 

All the energy

fuelling our intimacy

redirected

to painful chicanery.

We take no prisoners

Nor bury  our dead

Within this non-abating cyclone

love is literally dying 

all our dreams 

decaying.

Please

Please

Before there’s

 no returning

Ceasefire

Ellecee 

Day 1 - NaPoWriMo 2024

Ceasefire

Inspired by TP_Poetry