A child standing atop a dolmen

Between the Fires: verses of earth and moon

poems by Zephyra

Climate crisis

  • Reservoir lament

    No rains came A drought Said the water company And we banished our hosepipes Emptied our bathwater onto flowerbeds And showered instead But summer sneaked away And Autumn bought us rainy days The rain relentless Waterlogged our gardens Filled our drains contaminated our rivers Our seas So much rain we all said That’s us set… Read more

  • Save our oceans

    Plastic islands float in the ocean Choking nature with a rhythmic motion Plastic tides wash up on our shore Plastic islands forming, more plastic galore In seabirds feathers, in fishes scales In turtles eggs and inside whales Lying on the seabed for years and years Toxic and deadly, our very worst fears Soon there will… Read more

  • Situation drastic

    Spain is covered in plastic Vegetables grown for 3 crops a year Drenched in pesticides Workers in fear Exploitation Devastation Read more

  • Never

    Worries flooding in like the rising seas The silence space of empty bees The muted joy of a warming sea A poisoned planet dying alone Hope ebbing like a memory gone She sits alone with all she has known As nature’s guests our time is bid Stolen by a world driven by greed We took… Read more

  • Jubilee reflections

    Spare a thought for the England of old When summers were warm and winters were cold When we looked after the land and the seas And nurtured the birds and the millions of bees Imagine a picture painted through time Watching the hedgerows slowly decline Urbanisation steeling the land Mass agriculture vented by man We… Read more

  • A man made Scottish wasteland

    No, those lambs aren’t cute Their families have grazed this land to within an inch of its destruction And sod the piles of peat sod Sliced from the land where ancient folk trod Legacy of the lairds Who cleared the crofts And let sheep ravage the land To feather their nests No birds left to… Read more

  • The root of evil is greed

    In blissful ignorance we hide Behind rising seas and burning skies Precious habitat rent asunder As into wilderness we plunder The glorious Earth and what has been A distant memory no longer seen Those rich and famous may live long enough to know what man has done And as they contemplate without us We whisper… Read more

  • The price of what I wear

    The ‘wear me once dress’ Never cost less But It’s costing our future The carbon, the water And yes, It’s not fair But what you wear Has a price of its own that will stifle the Earth But for what it’s worth We can get out of this mess All you need is LESS Be… Read more

  • Footprints

    Pause Reset Rest awhile Where will your footprints be remembered? Tread lightly where you can There is no other land Read more

  • Climate emergency

    Humans are destroying Earth For what it’s worth The Earth will survive But we won’t be there We have stripped her bare Covered her with concrete Piled her high with plastic Stifled her diversity Roasted and toasted She So Glaciers are melting Species are declining She is over heating This is our emergency Climate out… Read more