Environment poems

As part of our topic 'It's Not Easy Being Green', Year 5 have been writing descriptive poems about the environment and the effect of our actions upon it.

 

Here is Harry's (5R) poem. What do you think?

Unearthly mountains of distress

Are piling up high

Above our neglected Mother Earth,

Holding her hostage

And slowly suffocating her to death.

Astounded rainforests burst up in smoke

As we stand and gleefully stare

At the lovely landscape, burnt with rage

And charred with destruction.

Cars’ exhausts clamour

As CO2 is released from their metallic mouths

And drivers angrily hit their steering wheels

While waiting in a prolonged traffic jam.

The sea is antagonized,

Congested with our carelessness,

Thronged with our debris,

Feeling overwhelmed.

Sorrowfully contemplating her future,

Mother Earth is weeping.

Will she be filled with crystalline oceans and green land

Or dirt-encrusted seas and noxious landfills for cities?