dVerse Poets Pub

It’s Time to Divorce the Car…

humanist55

It’s time to divorce the car!
The car is killing the planet

Cars and ships and planes too
Busses and  bikes are healthier alternatives

The health of the planet needs us to be healthier
You can’t walk away from this but you should walk more

Walk, cycle, car-share if you must, help yourself to help the planet
The time for tinkering with changing lightbulbs is in the rear-view mirror

A rear-view mirror magnifies the causes of global warming
but now is the time to look forward and act decisively

It is not just governments that need to act but you!
Changing your relationship with your car will be hard

The solutions are multifaceted but
For you, it’s simply time to divorce the car!

Generated in Midjourney

© Andrew Wilson, 2023
Responding to Björn Rudberg (brudberg) in Meeting the Bar: over at dVerse Poets Pub…

Driving Between Lives…

humanist55

For two-point-five days
I still live in the world of work

Driving in the mornings to
morning radio news and views

Listening not for bon mots
to repeat and seem wise

I am ready to engage with the world
of money, power and office politics

I do though, love a good debate
armed with the latest  news prompts

Driving home I am immersed
in music snatched from the TV by an app

Songs of life and love and death
wash away work except for the human bits

Softened by music I anticipate
my partner’s day, hoping for the best…

© Andrew Wilson, 2023
Responding to merrildsmith in Poetics over at the dVerse Poets Pub prompting on the theme of transitions.

Rain! My love…

humanist55
Gustav Klimt. Golden Rain, Danaë (1907)

Zeus raped, as rain so golden
A maiden
Climactic floods ravish the plain
In Spain
Whilst others crave rain from above
Like love

Rain will not send forth a white dove
Become like a fickle mistress
Leaving her lover in distress
A maiden in Spain likes love…

Written for Laura Bloomsbury’s prompt in dVerse Poets Pub:-

So today being the 10th day our poetry is to be crafted in the style of the Spanish Ovillejo which comprises 10 lines broken into two sub stanzas thus:

  • first stanza is composed of six lines
  • three rhyming couplets
  • the rhyme scheme is aabbcc
  • 8/3 syllables per couplet
  • each couplet is a question/answer or echo
  • –
  • second stanza is composed of four lines
  • rhyme scheme cddc
  • 6-8 syllables for the three lines* (I’ve seen a range of syllables used).
  • the final line combines lines 2, 4, and 6 together.

© Andrew Wilson, 2023