It's the end of the month and time for the challenge by the #PoetrySisters, hashtag #poetrypals: "If you’d like to write with us next month, we’re writing monotetras (never heard of ’em). You can post yours on your blog on July 28, or on social media using #PoetryPals, or in the comments on one of the Poetry Sisters’ blogs. All are welcome!"
Well, I've been watching the weather news all week. The high nineties here in Denver is usual for us in July but what isn't usual are the records being broken in Florida, Arizona, parts of Texas, and more. It's especially hard to read that the ocean water temp reached 100 and a bit over. Some say that's how they set their hot tubs! Eureka!
Thus, I'm worried and attempted a poem about Climate Change and the need for other change, not next year, but now! You can read this article from CNN or this one from the University of South Florida to discover what is being done now to help save ocean reefs and the creatures who live in them!
pay attention,
a monotetra
anemones are now distraught
they know the water’s all too hot
our weather is a boiling pot
we were not taught, we were not taught
‘twas years ago, climes told us more
to look for hurt, things to restore
but Exxon and others before
portrayed as lore, portrayed as lore
now we have disasters to meet
a dome o’er all we must defeat
be resolved to lessen the heat
corals entreat, corals entreat
Linda Baie ©