A Tree Hugger's Passion

• Artist: Cheech Of Tears
• Description: This is a poem I wrote for my senior year poetry class, protesting deforestation.
• Date: 07/21/2009
• Tags: tree huggers passion

A Tree Hugger’s Passion

Could you care a little less
About the planet we call home?

Our Mother Nature keeps us safe
Held close within her warm embrace
That shields us from the sunshine rays
And nothingness of outer space.

And yet, you disrespect her.
Torture and neglect her.
You strip her of her beauty
Hectare after hectare.

They say that ignorance is bliss,
But blissful days have not been brought
By the ignorance that lead to this:
The Earth, our home, is left to rot.

You’ve cut the throat of Gaia.
Her blood’s been spewed across the land
In the form of tiny woodchips
Buried ‘neath the sand
And the concrete foundation
Of buildings and streets.
So please, before you act,
Think of the Earth beneath your feet.


- Cheech Of Tears

Comments

[saiyan2k1]

environmentalist poem. nice change of pace ;p

[Black Ookami Wolf]

I like it...its tue about us not caring for the earth anymore its a good poem it should be on a thing for envorment poster don't let this poem go to waste

[Flaming Tsunami]

Good. I felt that in the third stanza "hectare after hectare" through off the flow of the stanza. The last stanza could have been split into two. Over the entire poem there seemed to be a lack of flow, which is what poetry is all about. Without flow, it might as well be a prose. I give you 3.4 out of 5, which rounds down to three. Good job.

[Resident Skulky]

Too many filler words. "Neglect her" seems out of place, because in terms of people (because you're personifying) , negligence usually implies a lack of contact. In fact, wouldn't neglecting the forest be better? That way, it could grow back on its own and get its nature on.