BLUE PLANET BECOMES GREENHOUSE

Blue planet
Becomes greenhouse
Too little room
For blossoming big mushroom
Acid rain
Too many old thoughts undecomposed
Poisoning today’s poison

Wait to exhale
The greenhouse is sweating
Hold that thought
Oxygen rapes carbon dioxide
CO2 shits O2; O3 too
Thermometer measures rising frenzy
Barometer cooling love.

– che chidi chukwumerije.

POLAR BEAR

The ice
Spice of my life
Has thawed
Underneath my paw.

As I claw myself back to life
All I need from you
Is a splice
Of sacrifice.

– che chidi chukwumerije.