Gaia’s Retribution? poem

/ Robert

Fluffy whites drift in soft blue calm
Exuberant hues flit, dart, dissolve
Hark-humdrum breeze-borne scratches

Scree-each

Thud-um mote-wrenching avian bolt
Scramble, skitter-stampeding tetrapods flee

Twinkling hubbub of city dwellers
Almost deafening-mezzo-staccato of ‘see-hearing’
Warnings flick past-too fast to catch

Cacophony of cataclysmic crashes
Searing scorching flashes frazzle
Man’s monumental marvels toppling
Towering engineering tributes tumble

Wake of whipped wild waves
Global whirling-denial, anger, sorrow
Useless bastion vestiges wither

Stunned-echoing, silent darkness freezes
Eons answer: indiscriminate hell to heal

9 thoughts on “Gaia’s Retribution? poem”

    • Dear Robert,

      I certainly concur with Paul. I naturally notice and gravitate to such features in your poems and those of Paul’s. Hence, I have many good reasons to like your poems, not just this latest one.

      Thank you once again for entertaining us with your poetic flair, imaginative flight and clever alliterations. Perhaps my having established ample opportunities for and sustained endeavours in composing mainly rhyming poems, often with end rhymes, internal rhymes, alliterations, assonances, consonances, sibilances as well as rhythmic devices, syllabic schemes, musical patterns, and other subtle or overt features (even including my own musical compositions, illustrations and animations), has thankfully returned some worthwhile results, including those that satisfy your discerning taste and intellect.

      I shall be composing and publishing a very unusual poem in a day or two, or three if something intervenes. And I shall explain in detail how it is constructed. The poem is also going to be simultaneously illustrated and animated.

      Happy May to both you and Paul! Well, it seems that we are all in a very poetic mood in May.

      Yours sincerely,
      SoundEagle🦅

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      • Dear Sound Eagle, I appreciate your feedback and being part of the virtual world we share. I was a special moment for me when you let me know you are also in Brisbane. R x

      • Dear Robert,

        Perhaps fate or serendipity might determine whether we shall ever meet in person in the future.

        It is hard to maintain my British accent (long informed by my knowledge of international phonetics) amidst a sea of Australian accent, never mind the twang and double diphthong in how certain Aussie phrases are usually delivered.

        In any case, you can see that I still retain British spellings in my writings.

        I have read your poem again, and can sense that you have had a lot of fun and experimentation in composing this one rhetorically entitled “Gaia’s Retribution?”.

        When shall I be able to savour your partner’s poem(s)?

        Yours sincerely,
        SoundEagle🦅

      • Dear Robert,

        Perhaps your partner could start with a limerick. In his 1846 Book of Nonsense, Edward Lear is responsible for the rising popularity of the limerick with the rhyming scheme of AABBA. Here is one to entertain those who are facially hirsute:

        There was an old man with a beard,
        Who said, “It is just as I feared!
        Two owls and a hen,
        Four larks and a wren,
        Have all built their nests in my beard!”

        Yours sincerely,
        SoundEagle🦅

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