Azule, poetry to save our seas!
Oceans are a threatened world!
AZULE
Drench me in a world
where sunlight scatters
the motions of the tide.
Waves and currents celebrate
beasts of every kind.
Dissolving bones of calcium
enrich the mineral sea.
Swaying kelp dance endlessly
in the depths of liquid glee.
Mountains lay down
in this salty fluid world
under shades of blue and grey.
Roam all, from the smallest brine
to the giant whales
that migrate the seas today.
Schools of fish, red octopus
and armored turtles drift.
Light leaks from high up above
in timeless openess.
Calves nurse and multitudes swim
under the crossing ships.
Dolphins toss and humpbacks sing
engaged in only play.
Seamounts rise in a velvet world.
Life is underway!
Here I see an enormous destroyer
dressed in black and white.
He's grim and formidable,
with a powerful tail
and strikes with all his might.
A dolphin escapes narrowly.
A squid dispenses his ink.
The changing waves clear his cloud.
Quickly he must sink.
If I were the schoolmaster
of these tenacious fish,
who float the colorful seas,
would I aspire to champion
or melt in humility?
I wrote this poem to remind all of us that we are destroying our oceans. Over population is bringing about over fishing, especially in Asia. Our oceans are filling with trash and debris (such as clear plastic baggies that sealife mistake for jellyfish). Factory farms are pouring chemicals into streams and causung river pollution run off into our gulfs and bays. This is creating dead zones in our oceans. Global warming is melting the polar ice causing ice chunks the size of Texas to break free and melt into salt water. It is time we all take responsibility for our own actions and end our destructive materialism while we have still have a chance. Protecting our oceans should be a top priority for all of us. Three suggestions you can implement today: 1.) never buy plastic baggies or sandwich bags. Sealife eat them and die. 2.) Purchase only fresh caught American salmon and not factory sea farm produced fish 3.) Stop buying factory farm meat. (The run off is killing the oceans) Only buy meat from a local farm. Prices are comparable.
By Joanne Kathleen Farrell, author, political writer, and poet
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