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 CCCCEarth complains | A |
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Go on people just carry on | B |
Destroy nature wantonly | C |
What do I care to be forlorn | D |
Fight each other too revengefully | C |
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You ve done it many times before | E |
I remember all through the ages | F |
Unforgettable and painfully sore | E |
Fills me with anger and sadness | G |
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All the things I gave you so freely | C |
Are now much ruined and chaotic | H |
Flora and fauna land and sea | C |
Plundered raped and now toxic | H |
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Vulnerable and defenceless am I | I |
I break down and am very sad | J |
To flood the lowlands as I cry | I |
My mind flashing like mad | J |
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Breaking down sometimes violently | C |
I shake and become torn about | K |
Wrinkles on my face get unsightly | C |
Deaf to many a microscopic shout | K |
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It s painful but what can I do then | L |
You harmed me so and I retaliate | M |
To protect myself and all even | N |
To be healthy to live and to create | M |
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Humans have made a mess of me | C |
I tried cleaning them up for ages | F |
In the ways I know how you see | C |
To reinstate order amid the chaos | O |
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Being quite as old as the universe | P |
Born to nurture creations within | N |
I have now become quite averse | P |
Focused on my being not on din | N |
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Yes I may seem cruel yet I feel for all | C |
I am everywhere all at once for you | Q |
My breath is there for your survival | C |
Yet I am suffocatingly polluted blue | Q |
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I blow hot and cold at all times | R |
But that is natural for my wellbeing | S |
Yet I am hotter at some places | F |
Subjected to all forms of burning | S |
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Disappearance of various beings | T |
Not of my doing but by accidents | U |
Don t the least prick my conscience | V |
These had lived on me as parasites | W |
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Buried in me are untold histories | X |
Still to be discovered and studied | Y |
One can learn much rich lessons | Z |
Past mistakes can be avoided | A2 |
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Great minds through the centuries | X |
Had advised Man to respect me | C |
Live in harmony in my omniscience | X |
Use me right and be problem free | C |
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Reduce reuse and recycle my parts | X |
Cease your destructive ways now | B2 |
Together we can all live in peace | X |
Look at me but as your sacred cow | B2 |
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Voyage my waters border to border | C2 |
Hike my heights and depths around | D2 |
Use me as you deem fit and proper | C2 |
Enjoy your time with me in any land | E2 |
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I was born with others big and small | C |
My breath came about by design | F2 |
Weathering made me into a ball | C |
To float and spin around the sun | G2 |
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I am older than everything in me | C |
Yet scant is the respect I get now | B2 |
I had given birth to each entity | C |
Mostly let them be as they grow | H2 |
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I have witnessed so much torture | C2 |
Global warming and desertification | B2 |
Wars and pollution to also endure | I2 |
I barely bear the stress and tension | B2 |
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Man has altered me much already | C |
My face changed very much in time | J2 |
Digging levelling and cutting frenzy | C |
Wantonly done even in my prime | J2 |
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When dinosaurs ran riot over me | C |
I saw their innocence without fear | K2 |
Then they disappeared eventually | C |
I really miss their roaring cheer | K2 |
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Decayed and transformed they are | L2 |
Now within my body oil and bones | X |
Extracted to be used for fuel and tar | L2 |
And burn my vital life breath away | M2 |
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I had no issues with those creatures | X |
Now Man has made me what I am | N2 |
Quite wasted dirty and useless | X |
I have become a universal scum | O2 |
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Getting old has no meaning to me | C |
Having lived for millions of years | X |
I feel young always and quite free | C |
Non judgemental in my own ways | X |
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Living things appear and disappear | K2 |
Ephemeral and fleeting in essence | X |
Transient memories I never fear | K2 |
Not sad nor worry without pretence | X |
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Floating and revolving so in space | X |
Maintaining my speed and direction | B2 |
I am well aware of my eternal place | X |
Not Man though who s my creation | B2 |
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Humans are swayed quite easily | C |
Whatever they fancy they then do | Q |
Only to regret quite disingenuously | C |
To justify what they think to be true | Q |
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Busy building bridges and buildings | X |
Occupying and operating openly | C |
Roads resorts and residences | X |
Man mismanages most miserably | C |
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I don t start wars or stand accused | P2 |
I don t pollute anything wilfully too | Q |
Involuntary actions to be blamed | Q2 |
Actions I do not ever on purpose do | Q |
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I do not start forest fires by myself | R2 |
Someone or my reflex actions did | S2 |
I cry my heart out at times to delve | T2 |
Intensely lighting the clouding lid | S2 |
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Blazing away my sorrows aplenty | C |
Due to atrocities committed by Man | B2 |
Evil unleashed everywhere cruelly | C |
I burn break rot and become dirty | C |
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My once sanguine natural habitats | X |
All much tattered and torn forever | C2 |
I am bloodied very much in essence | X |
I bear witness to this over and over | C2 |
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Men have travelled me everywhere | U2 |
Exploring my depths and heights | X |
To and fro in and out here and there | U2 |
All through since historical times | X |
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I appreciated his ventures always | X |
Marvelled at his scientific ingenuity | C |
That quite provided him a licence | X |
Playing God to mess me up really | C |
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He always takes me for granted | A2 |
Thinks I can always provide for him | V2 |
There for him always when needed | A2 |
Exploiting me till I become dim | V2 |
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However dim I get though brother | C2 |
I will redeem myself forever more | E |
Making my waters clean and clear | K2 |
I will always follow Nature s Law | C |
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Father Time and Mother Nature | C2 |
Oversee all my travels and travails | X |
Helping each and every creature | C2 |
Live through all of life s pressures | X |
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My hiccups and refluxes create fear | K2 |
Quakes and hot flushes bother me | C |
I erupt everywhere far and near | K2 |
All natural for my survival you see | C |
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Volcanic ducts activate my face | X |
Energising for my outward beauty | C |
Larval flows cream and fertilise | X |
For flora to flourish in perpetuity | C |
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My deep seas and salty lakes too | Q |
Hold so much water for all to drink | W2 |
That it gives life to all beings is true | Q |
Even if it s polluted and does stink | W2 |
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My poles are always frozen stiff | X2 |
However due to Man s activities | X |
They have started to melt in a jiff | X2 |
I get feverish through the centuries | X |
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Scientists say I shift here and there | U2 |
I don t know what s the fuss about | K |
It s only natural I move everywhere | U2 |
The continents drift without doubt | K |
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Adjusting fitting and grading myself | X2 |
Geo statically aligned as always | X |
I create or unmake to try and solve | X2 |
Mysteries hidden in me for aeons | X |
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Man has dug me countless times | X |
Messing up my interior and exterior | C2 |
Searching and researching in mines | X |
To rob my precious innards forever | C2 |
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Disemboweling me he wants to live | X2 |
Rich with comfort and graciousness | X |
Using and abusing my all to survive | X2 |
His sufferings not mine are his loss | X |
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Man has created expensive toys | X |
To toy with his and my life forever | C2 |
I am now a captive to his evil ways | X |
Still hasn t changed his behaviour | C2 |
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Man s greed has made me restless | X |
As he covets exploits and kills even | B2 |
Trying to outdo his friends and foes | X |
Power mad to make hell of heaven | B2 |
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I was once a Garden of Eden even | B2 |
Adorned with lush greenery all over | C2 |
Life forms found me a safe heaven | B2 |
To roam to live in harmony together | C2 |
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Gigantic creatures walked over me | C |
I did not the least flinch or shudder | C2 |
When Man came into being you see | C |
My life is now quite out of order | C2 |
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Is Man s intelligence to do evil only | C |
Polluting and creating much chaos | X |
Being rich and powerful spoilt many | C |
Egotistical and self entitled beings | X |
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I do not deny that there are people | C |
Trying their best to protect nature | C2 |
It s too little done and not so simple | C |
Can illiterates teach the teacher | C2 |
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Conferences seminars workshops | X |
Of what use then are these to me | C |
Few actions do not do me justice | X |
My problems are unsolved you see | C |
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Wars land grabs environs polluted | A2 |
Move me to tears and shivers a lot | Y2 |
Mankind is unkind and demented | S2 |
I revel to rebel in ways I know best | Z2 |
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Unless Man gets his acts together | C2 |
I am doomed to suffer even more Just forgotten for anyone to bother | C2 |
My existence is at stake in this era | C2 |
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When the giant lizards ruled me | C |
I had no qualms about them then | B2 |
They lived for millions of years free | C |
Helping me to keep the peace even | B2 |
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When born and started to form | A3 |
I was not perturbed or in disarray Sol my fiery dad made me blossom | O2 |
With rays of hope to not go astray | C2 |
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I revolve around him in obeisance | C |
Praying to the almighty with faith | B3 |
Believing in him to help me hence | C |
To protect and keep me safe | X2 |
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My child brilliantly shines brightly | C |
Man is moved by her when in love | X2 |
She circles me too quite snugly | C |
Man feels she s a treasure trove | X2 |
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He has set foot on her already | C |
Explored and dirtied parts of her | C2 |
Leaving material there purposefully | C |
And returns to dirty her even more | C2 |
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Man wants to travel even further | C2 |
To far reaches of the solar system | O2 |
But then keeps me rather improper | C2 |
He lives on me forgetting who I am | N2 |
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I am not his slave to treat me so | C |
Nor am I his mindless machines too | Q |
Programmed to do his bidding also | C |
He violates me black and blue | Q |
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Raping land sea and air of purity | C |
Man has become the ultimate evil | C |
His malevolence has no parity | C |
Godly in outlook he s the real Devil | C |
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Please don t misunderstand me | C |
I am saying this in general only | C |
People have planted many a tree | C |
And cleaned me up too actually | C |
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These people are angels in disguise | C |
They not only help me but you too | Q |
Protect me from premature demise | C |
Provide me a bit of respite to renew | Q |
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God knows what I ve been through | Q |
Man s advent gave me much pains | C |
It just takes a bit of effort to be true | Q |
For Man and I to have mutual gains | C |
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We can practically live in symbiosis | C |
Caring to share anything always | C |
Mutually respecting our existence | C |
Peacefully coexisting in our space | C |
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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