Lauren M. Hancock Poetry and Prose

Tag: climate change

  • Poem: Our Broken World – 21/09/19

    Poem: Our Broken World – 21/09/19

     She came from afar,
     many generations ahead, 
     many light years away.
      
     Her eyes saddened beyond belief,
     because of what she was sent to witness,
     but couldn’t, didn’t have the ability to save.
      
     She was a wandering explorer of the galaxy,
     sent to worlds of dystopian views,
      
     Burning balls of gas,
     reigning down with future fire,
     as the worlds exploded with their blooming ire.
      
     And it had come time for her to visit our world,
     we were raping the land and pillaging it,
     taking advantage and control, 
      
     Without a sense of worldly adherence,
     to the generous earth that had had enough,
     Of our selfish methods to use its resources,
     without a sense of future responsibility to be known.  
      
     This solemn being inspected the result of 
     our greedy hands,
     Observed the damage we’d permitted to occur on our giving land,
     our method of spreading our uncaring concern;
     a human-specific disease.
     
     She shook with dismay at the town raining down with black snowflakes,
     at the Amazon forests being burnt like witches at the stake.
      
     At our water, droughts coming and remaining rather than going,
     soon a lack of fresh drinking water, 
     A sin for our survival, 
     a definite detriment to our health ongoing.
      
     This saddened explorer couldn’t take anymore,
     couldn’t view for much longer,
     She felt the heat rising on the worldly barometer.
      
     How could it have to come to this?
     she wondered helplessly to herself.
      
     This world, this turning planet, 
     could have survived for many more decades,
     Had the humans taken care, 
     not just thought for and about themselves. 
      
     Yet now they are presented, 
     with the real possibility of decimation,
     a ball of burning gaseous mass of obliteration,
      
     Becoming inundated with despair and dismay,
     they’ll have to work mighty hard to make their land last. 
      
     And with that she flitted away many lifetimes, 
     to report on the health of the world,
     Unfortunately for some, 
     the bleak vision may not be able to be overcome.   

    © 2019 Alice Well Art, Lauren M. Hancock also known as Alice Well. All rights reserved.


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  • Story example: Edward the Displaced Penguin – 13/07/19

    Story example: Edward the Displaced Penguin – 13/07/19

    Edward wasn’t certain exactly where he was meant to be…

    (c) by Alice Well (LMH)

    Edward was a sleepy penguin, he liked to snooze all day. Hours passed and hours lapsed, he’d nap to while away his days. One day he selected a new favourite glacier, to curl upon and rest his weary eyes, and wouldn’t you know it, by the arrival of sunset, he was deep in his REM cycle, his dreams already beginning to fly. 

    He dreamed he was in motion, in the deep freezing ocean, floundering to and fro, but not a struggle, no, of course not, no, no, for Edward wasn’t a terrible swimmer at all! 

    Then a sudden jolt, in fright Edward opened his eyes, taken aback by the glaring sun, why, he was beneath a shading tree, in the middle of what appeared December’s sticky breeze, from a glacier he had unknowingly travelled to Australia!!!

    He tried to acclimatise, but all Edward could do was feverishly sweat, a penguin such as himself of this country was never meant, to be in such a warm, sweltering stink, how to get home, he tried to ponder, then heavily think, how could he return safely to his glacier with its calming icy drink? 

    But that glacier had ceased to exist, it was called climate change, of the Earth it was like its disease, and the best Edward could do, would be to become comfortable on the land, at least he was the only penguin he would set his foot upon sand. 

    And that is what occurs, when the world is uncared for, animals become displaced, and most humans avoid action and simply spout lies and conjecture. 

    We could all learn from George, and his saddening tale, take care of the world or risk unwanted consequences, our lives and planet are at risk, and of saving the globe and ourselves we cannot fail.

    © 2019 Alice Well Art, Lauren M. Hancock, also known as Alice Well. All rights reserved.

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