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15 October 2009

Climate Change Tanka

(Reposted from Tanka on Tuesday, for Blog Action Day)

From the low vantage
above the storm-damaged beach
the sea, my old love,
lately appears unfriendly
surging in rougher, closer.

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And two from my side of a debate in verse with a friend who says global warming is false, the earth's been cooling since 1998, and it's a ploy to raise global taxes for the New World Order:

Here in my country
recent years have exceeded
1998
with greater extremes of heat –
but I don't know what this proves.


Warming or cooling,
new world order or new tax,
on this we agree:
our politicians' motives
are seldom to be trusted.

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