Hatagoya's Desk

Friday, December 23, 2022

Sonnet to Poseidon

 by Anne Gruner

How do we harm thee? Let me count the ways.
We choke you with our deadly greenhouse gases,
and change your water to deadly carbonic acid.
For shellfish and corals, it is the end of days,
as warming skies set seven seas ablaze. 
Into your great expanse we discharge masses 
of waste and plastics, killing all that passes 
and forming zones of algal death in bays.

Heads bowed, we pray you make us wise,
as no denial brings us absolution
for turning our backs as steaming seas still rise.
We seek your ecological affusion
to no longer ignore the ocean's cries,
as we sail close to the winds of aquatic extinction.

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