She was from Chernobyl
/…face was pale as a dusky moon
Sitting in a wheelchair silently with
Empty stares telling no aspiration and
Apathetic expression as if her spirit…
By Shih-Fang Wang
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The World Around
/…savage world, save me, is celebrating.
The gorgeous hills at their lush vegetation,
The graceful rhododendrons at their crimson attire,
The valiant lion at its power to…
By Bimal Kishore Shrivastwa
Read MoreBlack Gold
/In April 2010, the BP Oil Spill devastated the US Gulf Coast - an environmental disaster the region…
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…the waters all ‘cross the Gulf of Mexico
Lies buried a vast sea of oil that’s countless years old
There’s greedy men b’lieve with…
By Mike Turner
Read MoreA Quality Airing Out
/After an environmental disaster a leadership family due to land ownership prepare…
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…his youthful age Paulie still fulfilled the obligations to have all the harness leather in the right place when hooking up the Zebra to the family transportation carriage. After making sure everything was secure, he called out, “Momma, Poppa, ready and set to…
By Marc OBrien
Read MorePetri Dish Beneath a Sepia Sun
/Will we darken our skies so that only the simplest life forms survive?
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…million millennia can’t meet the demand
for us to re-equip and re-evolve as we had planned.
But time waits for no one; it moves on as…
By Ken Gosse
Read MorePrimordial
/A hidden wilderness.
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…in the heart of Parma, Ohio is a primordial wilderness. I don’t suppose I’m the only one who knows about it, but I’m certainly one of very few people who know about it. It’s surrounded by miles and miles of post WWII housing, and a population not much given to curiosity. I discovered it in the middle…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreUnfathomable Devastation
/Unfathomable Devastation is a poem about a ship near the Red Sea in Yemen…
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…waits in open sight,
a rusty oil tanker at sea
waiting for that inevitable…
By Brenda Arledge
Read MoreMy Image, My Surrounding
/…invigorating air of my serene village
emits the odor of industrial smoke now.
Pollution, if possesses a filthy image,
is reflected in the atmosphere…
By Bimal Kishore Shrivastwa
Read MoreToads on Lily Pads
/…used to be a green pond once next to our house. This house had a red tiled roof and picture windows. It was situated on a hill known as the Dev Pahar in Chittagong. Through those picture windows, I could see the pond down by the valley. The pond was not too far. From the hilltop, it looked mostly surrounded by heavy moss growing on tall trees and bamboo…
By Mehreen Ahmed
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