Enlisted...

poets do not write

poems downwind,

they draft words

into the cause...

cultured lynchpins

strike Hope at the feet

and writers refuse

to let It burn

alone...

newsprint

crumpled

makes quick

kindling

unlike books

we know

but...

poets do not

write poetry

isolated

in tomes...

they transcribe

longhand...

between the lines

the euphemisms

and dysphemisms

of society's Immolation

within our Universe

the smoldering

suicide

of life

and art

of conscious

and conscience

of mind

and thought

of fossil fuel

and light

of cause

and purpose

of death...

and that which never dies.

08.06.2024

The world around us is on fire and here I am just writing this poem.

Challenge @treasuredjules