Earth’s Wrath! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCDC EFEG CHCH IJIJ CKCK LMNM CFCO PNPN CQCQ RSFS TUVW XYZA2 XCXC XB2XB2 C2D2C2E2 CF2CG2 CB2CH2 C2B2I2B2 CJ2CJ2 CK2CK2 L2XL2M2 XN2XO2 CXCX K2XK2X XB2XB2 CQCQ XCXC P2QQ2Q R2S2T2S2 CB2CC XC2XC2 U2XU2X XCXC A2V2A2V2 C2EK2C C2XC2X K2CK2C XCXC QW2QW2 X2XX2X U2KU2K X2XX2X XC2XC2 X2XX2X XC2XC2 XB2XB2 B2C2B2C2 CC2CC2 CXCX CC2CC2 XCXC A2Y2S2Z2 C2C2C2 CB2CB2 A3O2C2 CB3CX2 CX2CX2 CC2CC2 C2O2C2N2 CQCQ CCCC CCCC CQCQ QCQC CCCC

Earth complainsA
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Go on people just carry onB
Destroy nature wantonlyC
What do I care to be forlornD
Fight each other too revengefullyC
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You ve done it many times beforeE
I remember all through the agesF
Unforgettable and painfully soreE
Fills me with anger and sadnessG
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All the things I gave you so freelyC
Are now much ruined and chaoticH
Flora and fauna land and seaC
Plundered raped and now toxicH
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Vulnerable and defenceless am II
I break down and am very sadJ
To flood the lowlands as I cryI
My mind flashing like madJ
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Breaking down sometimes violentlyC
I shake and become torn aboutK
Wrinkles on my face get unsightlyC
Deaf to many a microscopic shoutK
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It s painful but what can I do thenL
You harmed me so and I retaliateM
To protect myself and all evenN
To be healthy to live and to createM
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Humans have made a mess of meC
I tried cleaning them up for agesF
In the ways I know how you seeC
To reinstate order amid the chaosO
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Being quite as old as the universeP
Born to nurture creations withinN
I have now become quite averseP
Focused on my being not on dinN
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Yes I may seem cruel yet I feel for allC
I am everywhere all at once for youQ
My breath is there for your survivalC
Yet I am suffocatingly polluted blueQ
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I blow hot and cold at all timesR
But that is natural for my wellbeingS
Yet I am hotter at some placesF
Subjected to all forms of burningS
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Disappearance of various beingsT
Not of my doing but by accidentsU
Don t the least prick my conscienceV
These had lived on me as parasitesW
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Buried in me are untold historiesX
Still to be discovered and studiedY
One can learn much rich lessonsZ
Past mistakes can be avoidedA2
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Great minds through the centuriesX
Had advised Man to respect meC
Live in harmony in my omniscienceX
Use me right and be problem freeC
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Reduce reuse and recycle my partsX
Cease your destructive ways nowB2
Together we can all live in peaceX
Look at me but as your sacred cowB2
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Voyage my waters border to borderC2
Hike my heights and depths aroundD2
Use me as you deem fit and properC2
Enjoy your time with me in any landE2
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I was born with others big and smallC
My breath came about by designF2
Weathering made me into a ballC
To float and spin around the sunG2
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I am older than everything in meC
Yet scant is the respect I get nowB2
I had given birth to each entityC
Mostly let them be as they growH2
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I have witnessed so much tortureC2
Global warming and desertificationB2
Wars and pollution to also endureI2
I barely bear the stress and tensionB2
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Man has altered me much alreadyC
My face changed very much in timeJ2
Digging levelling and cutting frenzyC
Wantonly done even in my primeJ2
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When dinosaurs ran riot over meC
I saw their innocence without fearK2
Then they disappeared eventuallyC
I really miss their roaring cheerK2
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Decayed and transformed they areL2
Now within my body oil and bonesX
Extracted to be used for fuel and tarL2
And burn my vital life breath awayM2
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I had no issues with those creaturesX
Now Man has made me what I amN2
Quite wasted dirty and uselessX
I have become a universal scumO2
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Getting old has no meaning to meC
Having lived for millions of yearsX
I feel young always and quite freeC
Non judgemental in my own waysX
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Living things appear and disappearK2
Ephemeral and fleeting in essenceX
Transient memories I never fearK2
Not sad nor worry without pretenceX
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Floating and revolving so in spaceX
Maintaining my speed and directionB2
I am well aware of my eternal placeX
Not Man though who s my creationB2
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Humans are swayed quite easilyC
Whatever they fancy they then doQ
Only to regret quite disingenuouslyC
To justify what they think to be trueQ
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Busy building bridges and buildingsX
Occupying and operating openlyC
Roads resorts and residencesX
Man mismanages most miserablyC
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I don t start wars or stand accusedP2
I don t pollute anything wilfully tooQ
Involuntary actions to be blamedQ2
Actions I do not ever on purpose doQ
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I do not start forest fires by myselfR2
Someone or my reflex actions didS2
I cry my heart out at times to delveT2
Intensely lighting the clouding lidS2
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Blazing away my sorrows aplentyC
Due to atrocities committed by ManB2
Evil unleashed everywhere cruellyC
I burn break rot and become dirtyC
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My once sanguine natural habitatsX
All much tattered and torn foreverC2
I am bloodied very much in essenceX
I bear witness to this over and overC2
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Men have travelled me everywhereU2
Exploring my depths and heightsX
To and fro in and out here and thereU2
All through since historical timesX
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I appreciated his ventures alwaysX
Marvelled at his scientific ingenuityC
That quite provided him a licenceX
Playing God to mess me up reallyC
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He always takes me for grantedA2
Thinks I can always provide for himV2
There for him always when neededA2
Exploiting me till I become dimV2
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However dim I get though brotherC2
I will redeem myself forever moreE
Making my waters clean and clearK2
I will always follow Nature s LawC
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Father Time and Mother NatureC2
Oversee all my travels and travailsX
Helping each and every creatureC2
Live through all of life s pressuresX
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My hiccups and refluxes create fearK2
Quakes and hot flushes bother meC
I erupt everywhere far and nearK2
All natural for my survival you seeC
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Volcanic ducts activate my faceX
Energising for my outward beautyC
Larval flows cream and fertiliseX
For flora to flourish in perpetuityC
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My deep seas and salty lakes tooQ
Hold so much water for all to drinkW2
That it gives life to all beings is trueQ
Even if it s polluted and does stinkW2
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My poles are always frozen stiffX2
However due to Man s activitiesX
They have started to melt in a jiffX2
I get feverish through the centuriesX
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Scientists say I shift here and thereU2
I don t know what s the fuss aboutK
It s only natural I move everywhereU2
The continents drift without doubtK
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Adjusting fitting and grading myselfX2
Geo statically aligned as alwaysX
I create or unmake to try and solveX2
Mysteries hidden in me for aeonsX
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Man has dug me countless timesX
Messing up my interior and exteriorC2
Searching and researching in minesX
To rob my precious innards foreverC2
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Disemboweling me he wants to liveX2
Rich with comfort and graciousnessX
Using and abusing my all to surviveX2
His sufferings not mine are his lossX
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Man has created expensive toysX
To toy with his and my life foreverC2
I am now a captive to his evil waysX
Still hasn t changed his behaviourC2
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Man s greed has made me restlessX
As he covets exploits and kills evenB2
Trying to outdo his friends and foesX
Power mad to make hell of heavenB2
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I was once a Garden of Eden evenB2
Adorned with lush greenery all overC2
Life forms found me a safe heavenB2
To roam to live in harmony togetherC2
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Gigantic creatures walked over meC
I did not the least flinch or shudderC2
When Man came into being you seeC
My life is now quite out of orderC2
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Is Man s intelligence to do evil onlyC
Polluting and creating much chaosX
Being rich and powerful spoilt manyC
Egotistical and self entitled beingsX
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I do not deny that there are peopleC
Trying their best to protect natureC2
It s too little done and not so simpleC
Can illiterates teach the teacherC2
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Conferences seminars workshopsX
Of what use then are these to meC
Few actions do not do me justiceX
My problems are unsolved you seeC
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Wars land grabs environs pollutedA2
Move me to tears and shivers a lotY2
Mankind is unkind and dementedS2
I revel to rebel in ways I know bestZ2
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Unless Man gets his acts togetherC2
I am doomed to suffer even more Just forgotten for anyone to botherC2
My existence is at stake in this eraC2
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When the giant lizards ruled meC
I had no qualms about them thenB2
They lived for millions of years freeC
Helping me to keep the peace evenB2
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When born and started to formA3
I was not perturbed or in disarray Sol my fiery dad made me blossomO2
With rays of hope to not go astrayC2
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I revolve around him in obeisanceC
Praying to the almighty with faithB3
Believing in him to help me henceC
To protect and keep me safeX2
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My child brilliantly shines brightlyC
Man is moved by her when in loveX2
She circles me too quite snuglyC
Man feels she s a treasure troveX2
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He has set foot on her alreadyC
Explored and dirtied parts of herC2
Leaving material there purposefullyC
And returns to dirty her even moreC2
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Man wants to travel even furtherC2
To far reaches of the solar systemO2
But then keeps me rather improperC2
He lives on me forgetting who I amN2
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I am not his slave to treat me soC
Nor am I his mindless machines tooQ
Programmed to do his bidding alsoC
He violates me black and blueQ
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Raping land sea and air of purityC
Man has become the ultimate evilC
His malevolence has no parityC
Godly in outlook he s the real DevilC
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Please don t misunderstand meC
I am saying this in general onlyC
People have planted many a treeC
And cleaned me up too actuallyC
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These people are angels in disguiseC
They not only help me but you tooQ
Protect me from premature demiseC
Provide me a bit of respite to renewQ
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God knows what I ve been throughQ
Man s advent gave me much painsC
It just takes a bit of effort to be trueQ
For Man and I to have mutual gainsC
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We can practically live in symbiosisC
Caring to share anything alwaysC
Mutually respecting our existenceC
Peacefully coexisting in our spaceC

Siva Mahendran
(C) All Rights Reserved. Poem Submitted on 06/29/2023

Poet's note: (21/2/23) Earth is personified as complaining about Man’s callous actions in destroying the flora and fauna as well as himself in wars and miseries wrought over aeons!




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