Climate change is a very serious issue in the world today. This poem brings attention to the way humans are treating the Earth.

Warned

By Sylvia Stults

The sands of time have rendered fear

Blue skies on high no longer clear

Stars were bright whence they came

Now dimmed, obscured, pollution’s haze

Crystal clear our waters gleamed

Fish abundant, rivers streamed

Ocean floors sandy white

Now littered, brown, pollution’s plight

Trees towered high above

Trunks baring professed love

Birds chirping from sites unseen

Gone, paper joined pollution’s team

One can’t blame pollution alone

As they say, you reap what you’ve sown

So let us plant a better seed

Tear out old roots, cultivate, weed

Protect what has been given for free

Our waters, skies, wildlife and trees

For once they’re gone, don’t you say

Consider yourself warned of that fatal day

Tears

By Meh Bashir

Tears are always painful

A mixture of water and salt

Apparently

But underneath

Have lots of stories

Of pain and miseries.

But those are more painful

Which cannot be shed

In the form of salt and water

And then...

They keep on melting the whole

Being.

Dilemma

By Fareeha Manzoor

There are many languages

I don’t know which one to use.

One is my mother tongue.

And second, my national one.

There are other regional ones my friends speak.

Then there is English

Now which one to use, I am so confused.

English is gaining strength.

Which means all others will rot.

Winter winds

By EK

The beauty of winter,

Says it all

As the wind blows,

The snow flows,

It starts raining

When everyone is shivering,

Cold nights

Smoky days,

All because of winter winds

Compiled by SK