Little Poems
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Comment from Joan E.
Writing a rhymed sonnet is a challenge and creating an acrostic is not easy--combining the two forms is magical! I appreciate your provoking thoughts about climate change in poetry and startling us with the photograph of your driveway last year! Here's to a milder winter- Joan
reply by the author on 16-Dec-2015
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Writing a rhymed sonnet is a challenge and creating an acrostic is not easy--combining the two forms is magical! I appreciate your provoking thoughts about climate change in poetry and startling us with the photograph of your driveway last year! Here's to a milder winter- Joan
Comment Written 15-Dec-2015
reply by the author on 16-Dec-2015
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Thank you Joan. Good thing I have a big snowblower.
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A really big snowblower! I haven't seen that much snow since the blizzard of '47 in New York (I think that was the year, when I was 4). We actually got a little rain yesterday and snow in the mountains, which is good to counteract four years of drought. We are still looking forward to El Nino's heavy rains after January. Climate change driven or not, the impacts are and will be dramatic. Warily- Joan
Comment from Pantygynt
As one who is currently involved in the team of sonneteers attempting to create a wreath of sonnets on the subject of "Climate Change" I found your sonnet here really interesting. This was the somewhat skeptical view I held until recently. They don't seem to call it global warming any more because for many it seemed to be getting colder.
I have been persuaded to change my views given the concentration on the figures, - two degrees, no 11/2. Even these targets seem doubtful of achievement. I have in fact written a complete wreath on the subject (which you will skeptically disagree with) but I have promised not to post it, other than the magistrate, until after the communal effort has gone down. One of the points I make is that "weather" and "climate" are not synonymous. The weather will, as you succinctly put it, will continue to boom and bust but the climate? Ah, that is something else again.
This is an interesting variation on the sonnet form and states your point of view quite clearly. The volcanic ash thing has even affected us but I think that is very definitely a "weather" rather than a "climate" thing.
I don't suppose either of us will be around to be proven right or wrong whenever the proof is established.
reply by the author on 15-Dec-2015
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As one who is currently involved in the team of sonneteers attempting to create a wreath of sonnets on the subject of "Climate Change" I found your sonnet here really interesting. This was the somewhat skeptical view I held until recently. They don't seem to call it global warming any more because for many it seemed to be getting colder.
I have been persuaded to change my views given the concentration on the figures, - two degrees, no 11/2. Even these targets seem doubtful of achievement. I have in fact written a complete wreath on the subject (which you will skeptically disagree with) but I have promised not to post it, other than the magistrate, until after the communal effort has gone down. One of the points I make is that "weather" and "climate" are not synonymous. The weather will, as you succinctly put it, will continue to boom and bust but the climate? Ah, that is something else again.
This is an interesting variation on the sonnet form and states your point of view quite clearly. The volcanic ash thing has even affected us but I think that is very definitely a "weather" rather than a "climate" thing.
I don't suppose either of us will be around to be proven right or wrong whenever the proof is established.
Comment Written 15-Dec-2015
reply by the author on 15-Dec-2015
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You are certainly right about the final proof. I see your point too about Climate vs Weather. I admire the efforts of the Wreath of Sonnets, a fabulous collaboration, and look forward to seeing yours, once it's released, as I know you'll do a magnificent job. I plan to write a Wreath of my own, but haven't settled on a subject yet.
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I remember your crown of heroic sonnets as one of the first things I read here on FS, and you released that as a single post. I did the same with mine about the lifeboatman a little later. This was shortlisted cfor poem of the month where it attracted very little attention, possibly because of its length. When the time comes to post my wreath, of 14 sonnets 15 if you include my magistrate already posted Iam won dering whether to post it as a single post or break it up in more digestible, shorter mouthfuls. I would really value your opinion on this.
Comment from I am Cat
Tom,
A very nicely done acrostic... though the logic is skewed, with all due respect. If you've ever sat in Alaska, in front of the glaciers... and watched every 30-60 seconds the huge hunks of glacier ripping into the sea... you'd believe it.
The difficulty with the term "Global Warming" is the word 'warming'. They should have called it "Global de-stabilization"... and it's true, our planet has undergone major changes... is that what we want? Another Ice age? Another flood? Another instance where humans cannot walk the earth due to raging temperatures at both extremes?
Oh believe me, it's going to blow... It's just a matter of which generation will be alive to see it. It won't be ours. But will it be our children? Our children's children? If they are smart (and some of them are) they won't even consider having children.
Sad... but oh so true.
If I were a young person today... I don't know that I would. It would be a HUGE decision with all the things going on in the world.
Global de-stabilization is just ONE worry... HUMAN de-stabilization... well, that's a whole 'nuther' as they say in my neck of the woods. :(
A very well written acrostic.
I hope you have a very large snow blower, because that looks like a hell of a berm you have there. ;)
Cat
reply by the author on 14-Dec-2015
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Tom,
A very nicely done acrostic... though the logic is skewed, with all due respect. If you've ever sat in Alaska, in front of the glaciers... and watched every 30-60 seconds the huge hunks of glacier ripping into the sea... you'd believe it.
The difficulty with the term "Global Warming" is the word 'warming'. They should have called it "Global de-stabilization"... and it's true, our planet has undergone major changes... is that what we want? Another Ice age? Another flood? Another instance where humans cannot walk the earth due to raging temperatures at both extremes?
Oh believe me, it's going to blow... It's just a matter of which generation will be alive to see it. It won't be ours. But will it be our children? Our children's children? If they are smart (and some of them are) they won't even consider having children.
Sad... but oh so true.
If I were a young person today... I don't know that I would. It would be a HUGE decision with all the things going on in the world.
Global de-stabilization is just ONE worry... HUMAN de-stabilization... well, that's a whole 'nuther' as they say in my neck of the woods. :(
A very well written acrostic.
I hope you have a very large snow blower, because that looks like a hell of a berm you have there. ;)
Cat
Comment Written 14-Dec-2015
reply by the author on 14-Dec-2015
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Hi Cat, thanks for the review. I have been to Akaska at Glacier bay, and to Mendenhall Glacier. But I haven't changed my mind. I also know that the Glaciers covered half of North America about 10,000 years ago, down past where I live now. I'm just saying it is a natural phenomena, and we can't stop it. But, like I said, I still think we need to do everything possible to preserve what we can and take care of this planet as much as possible.
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Agreed.
Comment from nancy_e_davis
Yes Tom, it is hard to believe all this stuff about Global Warming when you home is buried beneath layers of snow.
Today we have a below zero north wind blowing hard and it cuts right through you. LOL The fact remains we are not being kind to Mother earth and when Mothers not happy no one is! LOL Good poem. Nancy
reply by the author on 14-Dec-2015
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Yes Tom, it is hard to believe all this stuff about Global Warming when you home is buried beneath layers of snow.
Today we have a below zero north wind blowing hard and it cuts right through you. LOL The fact remains we are not being kind to Mother earth and when Mothers not happy no one is! LOL Good poem. Nancy
Comment Written 14-Dec-2015
reply by the author on 14-Dec-2015
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Thank you Nancy. Yes, we could definitely treat her better.
Comment from alvina224224
Well said, and well written, Treischel. I suppose this is the first time in the world's existence that changes like Global Warming have been recorded, discussed, become another fear for humans. You're right, Mother Nature is by far the biggest terrorist! Good Acrostic.
reply by the author on 14-Dec-2015
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Well said, and well written, Treischel. I suppose this is the first time in the world's existence that changes like Global Warming have been recorded, discussed, become another fear for humans. You're right, Mother Nature is by far the biggest terrorist! Good Acrostic.
Comment Written 14-Dec-2015
reply by the author on 14-Dec-2015
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Thank you alvina for your time and comments.
Comment from Domino 2
I've never seen a sonnet with the couplet in the MIDDLE, but assume it's intentional.
The iambic pentameter is good, though I struggled to emphasise just a couple of words to retain the beat - lines 3 and 7.
I'm also not 100% sure humans are responsible for ALL the global warming, though I still think our input should be cut - not only to avoid catastrophe, but for a cleaner and more pleasant environment, and I also agree Planet Earth will survive long after we humans have destroyed ourselves one way or another.
Best wishes, Ray
reply by the author on 14-Dec-2015
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I've never seen a sonnet with the couplet in the MIDDLE, but assume it's intentional.
The iambic pentameter is good, though I struggled to emphasise just a couple of words to retain the beat - lines 3 and 7.
I'm also not 100% sure humans are responsible for ALL the global warming, though I still think our input should be cut - not only to avoid catastrophe, but for a cleaner and more pleasant environment, and I also agree Planet Earth will survive long after we humans have destroyed ourselves one way or another.
Best wishes, Ray
Comment Written 14-Dec-2015
reply by the author on 14-Dec-2015
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Thank you Ray, well said.
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Thanks for both your gracious replies, my friend.
Cheers, Ray
Comment from robyn corum
Tom,
I thought this was a bright and smart treatise on global warming. I agree with you that humans often think of themselves as wielding far greater importance and power than may be true. You've said it well, without making statements that might 'offend' these folks. Great job!
Favorite lines:
I think we give our impact overplay,
Since Nature trumps our efforts any day.
Forever Earth has undergone such change.
Unlikely is our chance to rearrange.
So worry 'bout the weather, if you must.
Still, Earth will keep recurring boom and bust.
reply by the author on 14-Dec-2015
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Tom,
I thought this was a bright and smart treatise on global warming. I agree with you that humans often think of themselves as wielding far greater importance and power than may be true. You've said it well, without making statements that might 'offend' these folks. Great job!
Favorite lines:
I think we give our impact overplay,
Since Nature trumps our efforts any day.
Forever Earth has undergone such change.
Unlikely is our chance to rearrange.
So worry 'bout the weather, if you must.
Still, Earth will keep recurring boom and bust.
Comment Written 14-Dec-2015
reply by the author on 14-Dec-2015
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Thank you Robyn. Very good points expressed.
Comment from cj lutton
Once again your writings has stirred within me a desire to shout from the rooftops..."hooray! At last a voice of reason!"
I can't believe the arrogance of mankind in its belief that we can, not only control weather or nature, but that we can alter the past as well.
reply by the author on 14-Dec-2015
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Once again your writings has stirred within me a desire to shout from the rooftops..."hooray! At last a voice of reason!"
I can't believe the arrogance of mankind in its belief that we can, not only control weather or nature, but that we can alter the past as well.
Comment Written 14-Dec-2015
reply by the author on 14-Dec-2015
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Thank you cj, indeed we are arrogant. I'm sure God smiles at our antics, when He's in a good mood, as we do with our own naive children.
Comment from Sandra du Plessis
The earth can probably restore herself but we need to take care to do so much harm. For one thing the swerage water that is pumped into the ocean. We eat the fish that swims in there.
reply by the author on 14-Dec-2015
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The earth can probably restore herself but we need to take care to do so much harm. For one thing the swerage water that is pumped into the ocean. We eat the fish that swims in there.
Comment Written 14-Dec-2015
reply by the author on 14-Dec-2015
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Thank you Sandra. Indeed, we need to take better care of our home.
Comment from Liberty Justice
Awesome! Verses sound tone of assurance and personify earth as always dealing with its woes. Authors sentiments are climate change is no reason to panic.Well done dear poet.liberty justice
reply by the author on 14-Dec-2015
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Awesome! Verses sound tone of assurance and personify earth as always dealing with its woes. Authors sentiments are climate change is no reason to panic.Well done dear poet.liberty justice
Comment Written 14-Dec-2015
reply by the author on 14-Dec-2015
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Thank you Liberty.
