A thousand souls have suffered here today,
Expectant of the summer’s golden praise.
Instead we’re scorched in pangs of heated flame.
We have unleashed a beast we cannot tame.
And so we ride in vehicles of doom,
Not caring whether we should surely die.
Short term effects deceive what all do see;
All we care of is what the cost shall be.
While half the world lives in their happy state,
The others die in scorching worlds of hate.
It’s really staggered how we’ve come to be.
We’re crashing to the end, can you not see?
We’re blinded by the light that shades us still.
Its name is IGNORANCE, our binding ill.
Global warming...if you're not subtle enough to see what the topic of this one is.
ReplyDeletefrom now on, I'm not going to say if one's good unless it's extraordinary, k? too much writing, and you know each one is good. But, i get the first paragraph, but I can't get my thoughts straitened out right now, so what's the first paragraph about?
ReplyDeleteThanks Alice! This makes me feel as if I only write good stuff...! Thanks for the comments. O.K... poetic breakdown of the first stanza (a "paragraph" in poetry):
ReplyDeleteA thousand souls have suffered here today,
Expectant of the summer’s golden praise.
Instead we’re scorched in pangs of heated flame.
Refers to the our expectancy of constant temperatures, but instead we notice the world burning up and suffer, instead of having the temperature's we're used to.
We have unleashed a beast we cannot tame.
We've helped cause global warming, but we can't take it back or manipulate it easily now.
Alice! Get with your poetic analysis if you want to understand my poetry! haha...just kidding. You need to read poetry multiple times / read between the lines / look for comparisons when understanding difficult poetry. Thanks again for reading!
While half the world lives in their happy state,
ReplyDeleteThe others die in scorching worlds of hate.
These two lines also discuss the situation in Africa. Do you see how
we are "half the world lives in their happy state" while the developing countries in Africa and elsewhere on the other side of the world "die in scorching worlds of hate." The beginning discusses the literal "heat" of burning caused by our ignorance to burning, but the end uses heat to figuratively describe the "heat" of hate endured by developing countries such as Africa. Because most those countries are also hot, the "scorching" represents their very real hot climate as well as the "scorching of hate" caused by ignorance.
wow...some deep nice thoughts there. You're so good with words!
ReplyDeleteI try.
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