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A Robin in a Tree, a poem

A Robin in a Tree
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2021
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A small thing with a quickly beating

Heart. Good to look at, at times, even

Fascinating. She, like all her kind, eats

Shiny little seeds and tiny pebbles.
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Until the time comes, when it must,

She’ll build a small nest out of the

Wind, and take wing to search for

Small morsels, and flutter as she

Chews and reaches down for her

Own hungry, cheeping mouths.
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What she does, in her season, is a

Beautiful affirmation of care and

Love. But, I digress. The lessons

Of care and love that go into the

Raising up of the next generation,

Have been copied, some say, by

Instinct’s unknowing animation;
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Generations upon the uncountable,

And that’s probably true, but it takes

Nothing away from the lessons of

Care and love that animate them.

You who have young know of what

I speak, I’m sure you do.
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And now we’ve come to a reality

That’s hard to face, even harder

To deal with and try to mitigate.

Scientists call it the 6th great death,

Or to be less prosaic: extinction.
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Robins will be gone from trees, in

A little while. And sterility, well,

We all know what that means.

The weight of the plastic waste in

Our seas, even now, it almost out-

Weighs the fishes in all our waters.
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What to do, you ask? Very difficult,

But not yet impossible: STOP all

Life and business as usual, as though

Our very futures depend upon it!!!
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Stop extracting and burning all forms

Of carbon for energy!!! Commit to an

Earth-wide change to renewable forms

Of energy, without any exceptions, for

Any peoples or nations. The rich north

Must aid the poor south in their change

To renewable forms of energy. NOW!!!
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Millions upon millions of good,, well-

Paying jobs will be created, planet-wide!

And soon after we’ve made the change

To non-carbon energy, we can do the

Same for non-nuclear energy sources.
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Ask yourselves these questions: would

You rather put all you’ve got into life-

Saving forms of clean energy production,

Or would you rather join, as it impacts

Your generations to come, a forever

Extinction of life on Earth, our only

Home?
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