ENVIRONMENTAL POETRY

Not only are 2 10's students poets, but they are also very much aware of all environmental issues. They've put a lot of energy and imagination in writing the following poems.

~The boy and the polar bear~

It’s the story of a little boy,

Who eats candies,  

It’s the story of a polar bear,

Who picks the papers of these candies,

One day,

The bear meets the boy on the quay,

And says “Why throw your papers into the water? Do you know the impact?”

The boy answers “Sorry, I didn't know! It’s a grave act?”

The bear surprised, thinks:

“If no one tells the people,

Nobody will think to protect the planet!”

But, why don't we do the first step?

                                                                                  Philippine

See and change

When  I  see  the  world,

I  ask  myself  if  my  children  will  be  happy,

If  they  will  need  to   worry  for  their  health  at  every  step  outside.

I  want  us to save the Earth  for  them!

When  I  see  the  ocean,

I  take  fright  for  submarine  life.

Will   this   world   be  as  fabulous  in  thirty  years?

I  want  us to  save  the Earth  for this!

When  I  see  humans,

I  ask  myself  on  their  capacity  to  react,

And  I  only  see  pretexts  and  lies  but  no  action.

So  first,  I  want  us to change  this  for  save  Earth!

                                                                                                     Eva

              Today

There wasn’t snow this winter,

Today hurricanes, earthquakes, flood sreplace it.

The atmosphere gets warm, silently, slowly.

In the far north, ice is rare,

Penguins and polar bears play hide and seek with the ice cap.

Lower, the sky rumbles.

Drops fall like a threat on earth.

Earth is threatened by  our carbon footprint, by men.

Our planet is in pain

But today,  who will hear its tears?

                                                                                             Anaïs

The environmental warning

Humans are destroying the planet !

They exhaust natural resources without fear.

They pollute the atmosphere.

They deforest without care.

The pollution products a lot of greenhouse gas,

And global warming is caused by the greenhouse effect.

It brings the extinction of some species.

Humans… Is that your project ?

You have to react !

You could consider ecology,

And use renewable energies !

If you did that your future would be happy !

                                                                                                                 Gabyn

The human beings' story

For decades, human beings polluted the planet.

They built factories, and nuclear plants,

The animals started to become extinct;

The ice-cap was melting and ecological issues were abundant.

But, one day, some of them woke-up,

And realized that they had to do something.

They had to reduce their carbon footprint, and their green house effect.

They installed solar panels, wind turbines and other things.

They started to treat their planet  with respect.

That story was easy to relate

Is it really hard to make it ours?

                                                                                        Juliette