Can some one give a poem on environment?

Question

Can some one give a poem on environment?

Answer 1

The Menace of Lead

By Bunyan Bryant

Of the living dead poisoned by lead.

From paint chips and soldered water pipe,

Making parents in older homes real uptight.

Lead from father's clothes,

Just home from work oppressed with woes.

Who is the blame,

For this shame.

Of poisoning our children,

Causing all this confusion.

Making them welfare bound,

To be treated like hounds.

Eyes glazed over and lost for ever,

Functioning to mental capacity never.

Inner city kids exposed to lead,

Millions have much to dread.

Lead poisoning creating anger and despair,

Maybe resulting in court proceeding because cheating,

Stealing, and beating.

Ending in prison term,

For failure to compete and learn.

Black African souls 80% of prison country,

We cannot write you off because of bigotry.

Prison systems are new forms of apartheid,

Environmental racism amplified.

Jailed are more black males on a per capita basis,

Than in South Africa with all their racists.

If we cared and had a heart,

We would fund head start.

Rather than $80,000.00 per year for one in Jackson Prison,

More expensive than the University of Michigan.

The effects of lead is insidious,

But I don't want you to pity us,

Or to get rid of us by poisoning us.

But to use your might to do what's right,

Equal protection of the law is a civil right,

Redistribution of resources will change our plight.

Answer 2

There are many, many poems on the environment; do you mean on environmentalism (few poems) or nature (millions)?

Answer 3

My passion is forests and trees.  Here's some links for tree quotes:

http://www.thenatureinus.com/2008/02/tre...

http://www.thenatureinus.com/2008/05/mor...

which do include poems like this one:

I think that I shall never see

A poem lovely as a tree.

A tree whose hungry mouth is prest

Against the earth's sweet flowing breast;

A tree that looks at God all day

And lifts her leafy arms to pray;

A tree that may in Summer wear

A nest of robins in her hair;

Upon whose bosom snow has lain;

Who intimately lives with rain.

Poems are made by fools like me,

But only God can make a tree.

~ Joyce Kilmer, "Trees," 1914

Here's also links for nature quotes:

http://www.thenatureinus.com/2008/03/8-n...

http://www.thenatureinus.com/2008/04/10-...

Henry David Thoreau had some great quotes on the environment:

http://www.thenatureinus.com/2008/01/hen...