Post-Modern Culture-Nile Trial in Denial
Post-modern culture lessons few has learned
Years stretched to centuries times forty-eight
Raising structures daring Time's 'dew' date.
Alas tide heralds dust to dust returned,
Mocks mankind's self-pollution coda earned.
Ice cap melt-down Giza, called the Great,
Dares threaten now, its powers bow to Fate,
As boom to bust bricks blow away, wind churned,
Leaves man at sea, too many bridges burned.
Polar pressures crack tectonic plate.
Open options exercised too late
Will mourn lost time when one dawn meets flood stern
Extending over reads, reeds, fern stems drowned,
Returning fallen pride to sea-slush mound.
Post-modern culture, pushy, churns ahead,
Yet spurred by institutions that remain
Resistant to internal change, which train
Ambassadors who vested-interest dread.
Mutant paradox is progress, fed
In bursts which cause, effect, link in a chain,
Driving change at speeds which sorely strain
The habits of the West, life as now led.
Each step Man takes towards the fountainhead
Leaves stranded an environment whose reign
Experience through time seemed prime. Its rein
Seems checked if not checkmated as Fate’s thread
COvers global village through soft sell -
PErmeating all with netted spell...
Post-modern culture thinks itself ahead,
Yet drawn by paradigmns out-dated, vain,
Reminding one of ostrich grounded bane
Administrators innovations dread.
Musings paradoxical are fed
In bursts haphazard cursed by growing pain,
Disturbing eco-systems, sorely strain
Climatic context, for, consumer wed,
Our needs today - tomorrow’s fountainhead -
Leave land exhausted, growth against the grain,
Lead to fields exploited, yields which wane
As nutrients - monopolistic bre[a]d -
Prevent diversity to sound ground’s knell,
SEcond best accept, [l]and poison well.
Post-modern culture boasts empowered creed,
Yet sows its own destruction's seeds as greed
Rears hydra head to grasp Earth's gasp whose need
Aside is thrust as 'progress' must proceed.
Might at zenith, states say guaranteed
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poem by Jonathan Robin
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