Climate Change Poems
Published: September 2019
Climate change is a hot topic in the world today. This collection of poems brings attention to the way humans are treating the Earth, and the poets implore people to turn an eye toward the destruction that humans are causing to our planet and make changes.
14 Poems About Climate Change Awareness
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1. Mother Earth
The land is in a constant state of birth,
Giving life to all who live on Earth.
Our carelessness and fears
Have taken a toll over the years.
Her land is parched and scorched
As man continues to light the torch.
We continue a want of speed and ease,
All while our pesticides kill off our bees.
It's time to wake up and see Mother Earth's pain.
Humanity's selfishness is becoming insane.
Soon her cries will turn to gloom,
And man will cause its own doom.Featured Shared StoryGood write. It's so sad that we don't realize what we have and are doing to our own home.
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2. Warned
The sands of time have rendered fear
Blue skies on high no longer clear
Stars were bright whence they came
Now dimmed, obscured, pollution's haze
Crystal clear our waters gleamed
Fish abundant, rivers streamed
Ocean floors sandy white
Now littered, brown, pollution's plight
Trees towered high above
Trunks baring professed love
Birds chirping from sites unseen
Gone, paper joined pollution's team
One can't blame pollution alone
As they say, you reap what you've sown
So let us plant a better seed
Tear out old roots, cultivate, weed
Protect what has been given for free
Our waters, skies, wildlife and trees
For once they're gone, don't you say
Consider yourself warned of that fatal dayFeatured Shared StoryEnvironmental pollution is a global issue, and hence it has entered into world of poetry. Poets have unique ability to express to communicate with their audience more effectively than anyone...
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3. Awareness About Our Environment
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.Featured Shared StoryGood message. And to think there are some who are planning to inhabit other planets. Haven't we done enough damage to this one?
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4. Our Mother Earth
This Mother Earth,
Who gives us life;
This Mother Earth,
Heart filled with strife,
We love her not,
Though love we should;
Her death we plot,
For life's "own good;"
She gave us air, and food, and home.
That's not enough we humans scream;
With greedy lust, our mouths do foam,
With evil hopes, our eyes do gleam;
Her air we fill
With smoke and death;
Ourselves we kill,
For lack of breath;
The sea once clean,
Now choked with waste;
To drink, we fear,
Will death make haste;
The soil once pure
And full of life,
Now barren sand
Of farmers' strife;
No longer she
Can stand our "love;"
Now we must flee
Like scattered dove;
She gave us all,
Unto the end;
Now we appalled,
Our lives defend.Featured Shared StoryThis is really a very heart touching poem. After reading this poem we realize that what the Mother Earth has given us is the best and we should preserve it full-heartedly. This poem gives a...
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5. Nature's Law
The waves are rolling toward the shore.
A silent world - an empty core.
Lifeless land with nothing more.
The waves are crashing on the shore.
The fabled beast - a mighty roar,
Extinction men choose to ignore,
And the waves are breaking at the shore.
A new beginning, our fathers - fore,
Human nature set to explore.
The waves are lapping at the shore.
Seven seas sailed, in the skies we soar.
Kingdoms conquered, blood they pour.
Crimson waves rest on the shore.
A fractured earth, relations sore.
A greed that breaks our natural core,
And the waves are turning on the shore.
Gluttonous rage,
We lust for more,
And the waves are monsters on the shore.
The tides are turning.
The land is raw.
Time to face our nature's law.
And the waves are rolling toward the shore,
And the waves are rolling toward the shore,
And the waves are rolling toward the shore...
Forever more.Featured Shared StoryThis is a poem that opens our eyes to the negative impact of pollution. A reminder to the world to preserve the Earth's natural endowment.
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6. Can Earth Be Earth?
in Earth Poems
Analysis of Form and Technique
Can earth be Earth when all its trees are gone,
And sudsy waters have become unfit,
And poisoned life no longer greets the dawn
With raucous sounds that death has caused to quit?
Will trees no longer wave, with limbs unfurled,
On hapless earth, that ever in orbit roams?
Will human ego sacrifice the world
To satiate its lust for pompous homes?
Will distant space look down on orb that's bald.
I now can hear the mother say,
"I was once called Earth.
But now, bereft of mirth, I weep.
That treeless orb's no longer Earth."Featured Shared StoryThis poem made me feel like I can once more cry for our poor Earth. Why do we have to do what we do? And to our surprise, tigers, wolves, mountain lions, and many other predators are blamed...
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7. Mother Earth
Our Earth is beautiful as viewed from the sky.
But wait! Is Mother about to cry?
This blue planet shakes and trembles and sheds its tears
As it feels the wars and the pain of its tenants' fears.
It's the human ones causing the destruction.
Of all that Mother put into production,
Millions of eons shifting lands to and fro,
Forming mountains and valleys and waters that flow,
Habitats grown to nurture all her children
Are destroyed by the greed of human evolution.
Has the Mother taken all that she can?
Is she objecting to the iniquities of man?
How many cuts and incisions can she take?
As species land and forests disappear in man's wake,
She gives her warnings as the elements explode,
Showing how vulnerable humans are in their humble abodes.
Catastrophes are spreading across the globe.
How much worse will they become? No one knows.
The Mother is angry, and she has just begun
To vent her fury as she converses with her sun,
So beware, human ones, and heed Mother's actions.
Let not complacency and avarice become your distractions.
Has the Mother not provided all that you need?
Yet you repay her with ignorance and contempt as you feed,
So open your eyes, human ones, and respect Mother's love,
For this is Mother Earth given to us from above.
Featured Shared StoryNo Stories yet, You can be the first!
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8. Make It Green
in Earth Poems
Lives are crying because it's not clean.
Earth is dying because it's not green...
Earth is our dear Mother; don't pollute it.
She gives us food and shelter; just salute it...
With Global Warming, it's in danger.
Let's save it by becoming a strong ranger...
With dying trees and animals, it's in sorrow.
Make green today and green tomorrow...
With melting snow, one day it will sink.
How can we save it? Just think...
Trees are precious, preserve them.
Water is a treasure, reserve it...
Grow more trees; make Mother Earth green.
Reduce pollution and make her a Queen...Featured Shared StoryI just loved this poem so much that when I was reading it I got inspired to start writing poems. I will tell you I just hated poems, so you probably wonder why I would read a poem. Actually,...
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9. Mother Nature
Our world is always changing,
Constantly rearranging.
From ocean depths to mountain peaks,
Mother Nature moves and speaks.
While telling stories of our past,
She tries to teach us how to last.
Mankind, so smart, sometimes blind,
Leaves common sense far behind.
We're moving fast and living large,
Forgetting Mother Nature's in charge.
Amazed when she rings our bell,
Sending us through living hell.
She can twist our steel, shake any city.
If her wrath you feel, we shall pity.
Yet some who speak on her behalf,
I fear just seek the golden calf.
It's true, we must treat her right.
Or we will incur a deadly plight.
Treat her with distinction
Or surely face extinction!
Featured Shared StoryA stern warning by the poet that we all need to respond to and act accordingly.
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10. Look Outside
Look outside, see the trees.
Watch the flowers in the breeze.
Things won't be like this in a year or two
If polluting is all we do.
Seize the night,
Seize the day.
Things won't always be this way.
Thousands of people are dying.
In the night, you hear children crying.
Let's stop the war.
Our people are sore.
The world can't help itself.
Who cares about your wealth?
Help me to help you.
Show the world what you can do.Featured Shared StoryI'm a college student who found your poem almost 10 years later. I am using it for my literacy analysis paper for an Intro to Literature class! If you ever come back here, just know your poem...
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11. Why, Mankind, Why?
in Earth Poems
Mankind! Long before your birth,
alluring was the beauty of Mother Earth.
She bore living things of all kinds...plants and insects, animals and birds.
All, an exotic reflection of her biodiversity,
A diversity you have chosen to destroy!
Why...Mankind...Why?
Mankind! Onto the face of the earth you strolled in,
bringing up the rear in all her children.
You were meant to be the pride of all creation,
but you chose to be the bane of life by bringing destruction.
Why...Mankind...why?
Mankind! To all life, Mother Earth has been so kind!
Like the mother hen she nurtured her little chicks with affection,
as she toiled to provide food season after season with dedication.
Even to you Mankind, she gave the best in proportion
Only to be sentenced by your actions in damnation!
Why...Mankind...Why?
Mankind! You were created to walk but you chose to walk and fly!
If only you flew like a bird, it might just have been perfect.
But No! You fly in all sorts exuding all sorts.
Now Mother Earth is filled with all sorts because you choose to ride in all sorts.
Why...Mankind...why?
Mankind! You have an insatiable desire to acquire.
You plunder the earth with impunity,
Oil, coal and iron you chase in disunity,
fighting even your own kind for control and quantity
just to live a life of environmental insanity!
Why...Mankind...why?
Mankind! Perhaps you have forgotten so soon!
The La Nina drought of 2000, the heat wave in Europe in 2003,
the tragedy of the cyclone in Myanmar in 2008, the constant melting of polar ice caps,
all a consequence of your actions and inactions!
You leave the problems for tomorrow's generation
running away for your present tribulation.
Why...Mankind...Why?
Mankind! When will you repent of your evil ways?
When will you stop biting the hands that have fed you?
When will you love mother earth like she loves you...?
And stop writing her dirge with your actions?
Mother earth looks upon you with her painful eyes
Sobbing and asking you why...
Why...Mankind...why?Featured Shared StoryYou are totally right why do we do this. Life's greatest mystery. I love your poem. Sincerely me
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12. The Changing Earth
Earth is a beautiful place,
a place we live every day.
We should have the grace
to make sure it doesn't go away.
Climate change is a problem we face,
and it's something we should not forget.
Our world is changing in a fast pace,
and a solution to this we have to get.
Endangered species are becoming extinct.
Temperatures are rising every day.
Rivers are becoming desert valleys,
but this shouldn't lead us into dismay.
The ice caps are melting down,
causing sea levels to get higher.
Precipitation patterns are changing,
and it's making the deserts drier.
God gave us this sacred place,
and we cannot take it for granted.
One day we will run out of space,
and the Earth we know will cease to exist.Featured Shared StoryNo Stories yet, You can be the first!
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13. Nature Speaks
Nature paints the waters blue and the mountains green,
As the music of swaying trees and roaming beasts reign.
Touching human hearts in breathtakingly amazing scenes.
Under the blue sky, God's unconditional love is evidently seen.
Rivers of teeming fish, lands of abundant fruits and grains,
Engulfed by a pair of Mother Earth's caring hands, our haven.
Storms, quakes, climate change and other ecological villains,
Pilfered and plundered the nature's wealth and magnificence.
Envious hearts and ambitious minds have also brought change,
Afflicting Mother Earth in every technological advancement.
Keep an eye; take heed that something is wrong with our planet,
Start with a promise to care for Mother Earth before it's too late!Featured Shared StoryNo Stories yet, You can be the first!
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14. In The Whirlwind Of Destruction
The temperature is fluctuating,
She could feel.
The scars are intensifying
and so is Her incapability to heal.
To rejuvenate feels tiresome
as they exploit Her to the maximum
While they prosper
And leave Her struggling
With bare minimum.
The wide, abundant ocean,
Which hides an assortment of things exotic,
Is now trashed with wastes, causing commotion
Among those aquatic.
The smog clings to Her,
Leading to her ineludible destruction.
Despite this, She strains
For the survival of every human.
The chemicals cut through Her core
Like knives.
How is life supposed to carry on
When they rage war against
What keeps them alive
And helps them thrive?
Seeing Her own people demolish
And disfigure her features
Saddens Her with a grief enormous
But a flame courses through her,
Wanting recompense from these ungrateful creatures.
She lets the fire fuel Her
And unfurls it from within Her.
Settlements are razed to the ground
While they are compelled to flee their compound.
She thrashes Her arms around
Letting the sea out of its confines
And submerge the cities renown;
Death tolls and devastation make the headlines.
Dried up ground under their feet,
Blazing sun taunting with its heat.
Their eyes stare ahead
At the stumps that they once behead.
"Global warming," one says
"Sea level's rising," another follows
"So what's the solution?" others query.
Opinions put forth, agreements are signed,
Responsibilities for change are assigned.
But as the race for dominance arise
Responsibilities to environment are set aside
Resources are used to its fullest
Technology is upgraded to its best.
And so is pollution, as it prevails
More persistently
And environment derails
More consistently.
War against nature is a battle
Already lost.
The nature fights back with ire,
The cost
Of which would be dire.
Let's own up to our mistakes
And join hands 'cause higher are the stakes
When it involves precious lives in line.Featured Shared StoryNo Stories yet, You can be the first!
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