AR6 IPCC Climate Report: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability Poetry
Round-Up Of Poems Helping Me Through the Latest Climate Report
Hello,
Here are pieces of a couple poems I’ve put in one place that help me process the latest IPCC Climate Report on Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. Please click through for the poems in-full.
Terese Mason Pierre, ‘Harmonious Light’
Where is the living moment saturated in color?
At the end of revolution and arms, we expect color
to spring from the sidewalks, a whole new-colored
era. When the imagination fails, it removes color
from each essential issue, colonial animals coloring
need with greed, unity with division, robbing color
to dilute to sameness, under one flag’s colors.
Now, we witness the earth exhale an eager truth, give it color
where there is none, share a fresh capital greener in color
than money: trees and flowers instead—their colors
adorning hearts, without property or struggle.
Patricia Smith, Poems from ‘Blood Dazzler’
Patricia Smith, ‘Katrina’
Scraping toward the first of you, hungering for wood, walls,
unturned skin. With shifting and frantic mouth, I loudly loved
the slow bones
of elders, fools, and willows.
Maya Angelou, ‘Alone’
Now if you listen closely
I'll tell you what I know
Storm clouds are gathering
The wind is gonna blow
The race of man is suffering
And I can hear the moan,
'Cause nobody,
But nobody
Can make it out here alone.Alone, all alone
Nobody, but nobody
Can make it out here alone.
James Baldwin’s Poetry: Playing by Ear, Praying for Rain
Lord,
when you send the rain,
think about it, please,
a little?
Do
not get carried away
by the sound of falling water,
the marvelous light
on the falling water.
I
am beneath that water.
It falls with great force
and the light
Blinds
me to the light.
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