Environment Poem

The World is a beautiful place...or is it?

Awareness

© Sylvia Stults
Broken bottles and charred pieces of glass
Wadded up newspapers tossed on the grass
Pouring of concrete and tearing out trees
This is the environment that surrounds me?

Poisons and insecticides sprayed on our food
Oceans filling with thick oil crude
All sea life destined to a slow awful doom
These are the things we are to consume?

Mills pumping out iron expelling yellow fumes
Airlines emitting caustic gases from fuels
Weapons of destruction tested at desolate sites
And this is the air that's to sustain life?

There has to be something that someone can do
Like raise the awareness to those around you
That if we don't heed the problem at hand
It's your life that's at stake, the destruction of man.

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Published: Jun 2011

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  • I am a teacher and now we are working with children on the problem of environment. That's why I look for English poetry. I want them to know and read more..

    Natalia Yakimova, Russia, Khabarovsk Submitted 12/11/2012
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