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Abe
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since 2003-05-28

Posts 694
Looks like Vero Beach, FL until the end!

0 posted 2007-01-08 11:18 AM

From my book, "Moontides, and Other Changes"  with current update (every other verse).
No matter what your nationality, politics or religeous beliefs we should all be very concerned about Mother Earth and our own future.  We just can't go on pretending there isn't anything to worry about, no matter what big business and gov't tells us.  I, for one, believe Global Warming IS real!!

ENDANGERED SPECIES
Verses in (   ) are new and added

(I wrote this in the early 80s
And thought I’d add some more, today
As we still destroy our Planet
In the same, old, greedy, selfish way)

We talk about what we can do
To save what we don't kill
But I think we all know
That we never, ever will.

(Some inroads were slowly made
To save some endangered species
But all in all we all seem doomed
From the human being’s worst disease.)

We discuss all the things
That could and should be done
But it usually ends right there
Before they are begun.

(We talk and procrastinate
And I think it’s kinda strange
We know we should but never do
Those things we need to change.)

We won't waste our precious time
In our greedy haste
We will wait until it's gone
And cannot be replaced.

(We’re too busy with ourselves
And wait for someone else to lead
To change our ways of living
We’ll need to do to succeed.)

Then we'll complain about it
Let another take the blame
And the worst part about it --
Next time we'll do the same.

(Some say we still have the time
To stop our self-destruction
And the release of greenhouse gas
Or at the least, some reduction.)

Some day we will realize
Though it will be too late
We're the endangered species
And have sealed our own fate.

(There are still some people
Some we may think are smart
Who say there is no problem
Can they believe that, in their heart?)

The world will be better off
Without the human being 'round
Without our intelligence(?)
Maybe sanity will abound.

(We seem keep ourselves at War
To control the flow of carbon fuel
And will never know righteous Peace
As long as the corporations rule.)

Maybe peace and tranquility
Will spread around the earth
Once we realize how little
We are really worth.

(Maybe when we go extinct
Nature will find a better way
To evolve a smarter, caring being
Who won’t be hell-bent on its doomsday.)

Let us hope we leave enough
To start some life anew --
That, we don't kill it all
'Fore we bid this world adieu.

Began in the early Eighties
Updated after some twenty pass
Will there be a time to write of changes
I doubt it, the way it looks, alas.

1980s and 01.08.07

Del "Abe" Jones
Mankind's greatest accomplishment is not the revolution of technology, it is the evolution of creativity.

Enchantress
Member Empyrean

since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

1 posted 2007-01-08 03:08 PM

Well done Del.
As I said to you via email,
if you get the chance
be sure to watch the movie
An Inconvenient Truth. (Al Gore)

In the midst of winter,
I found there lives within me..
An invincible summer.

EagleScorpion
Senior Member

since 2000-03-08

Posts 1644
Here, Now, Forever

2 posted 2007-01-08 03:14 PM

not only is global warming a reality, but we deserve the consequences.

let our grandchildren worry about it, maybe they will be smarter than us, if it isnt already too late

Abe
Senior Member

since 2003-05-28

Posts 694
Looks like Vero Beach, FL until the end!

3 posted 2007-01-09 06:18 AM

I bought "An Inconveniet Truth" but haven't watched it yet. What I have seen so far on TV about it looks like it is something everyone should see. Sadly there are people who won't watch it just because they don't like Gore or Democrats. How petty and stupid. I think Gore is doing so much more good as a citizen that he ever could or would have as a politician. Kudos to him for that.

Del "Abe" Jones
Mankind's greatest accomplishment is not the revolution of technology, it is the evolution of creativity.

Roniece Dawson-Bruce
Member Ascendant

since 2000-01-29

Posts 5689
Sydney, Australia

4 posted 2007-01-09 06:19 AM

well done indeed, loved your new verses Del

RDB

LeeJ
Member Patricius

since 2003-06-19

Posts 13296

5 posted 2007-01-09 06:22 AM

Del, a thought provoking write, thank you

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
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6 posted 2007-01-09 07:44 AM

always love your wisdom Del

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