Hello dverse poets this is one of my first poems written after listerning to “big yellow taxi by Joni Mitchell one evening a number of years ago. I am having a thin out of some of my least popular poems this evening and realised i had not promoted this at all so thought open link night might be the right place for it.

#dverse, #globalwarming

https://dversepoets.com/2021/09/02/openlinknight-299/

Alone I stand my feet in the earth,

Head held high, even inn the fog of man,

Metal beasts wanting to tear at my core,

their breath burning man’s lungs, the lungs I could help.

My lifelong friends long since felled,

Replaced by more asphalt beds,

For your oil eating, carbon decanting beasts of burden, 

Built as salves, to the dark destroyers,

Here at last is our ending,

Here comes the ripper of friends,

To tear me branch from trunk,

Till you have no more of my kind.

To many vapour trails look down,

from the dirty grey,

 that was once the clear blue,

that my friends kept blue,

As I lay here to die torn apart,

Leaf from twig, twig from branch,

 Branch from trunk, trunk from root

GOODBYE.