Here's one I hardly remember writing, even though it was only a little over a year ago (last January). It has a hymnal quality that was commented on at the time, and some incongruous language, perhaps, but I post it here unedited.
Awesomely, Awfully (tears of old oceans)
Awesomely, awfully, runs the sun over us
so ever-onwardly turns the green Earth
quite unforgettably, always oviparous,
carries the oceans, the place of our birth,
carries the mountains and skies tall and wondrous,
rolls ever under our mass at her girth.
Now we refer to the future: projecting it
carries a warning - illusions are dumb.
Earth can't survive 'less the species protecting it
sees her diseases both painful and numb.
Cannot revive if the testers inspecting it
stand unaware of how she may succumb.
Wake to the warning and hearten heroically:
carry the fight by the light of the flame.
See how she bears her mistreatment so stoically,
only occasionally fixing her aim...
Yet she is wounded and weeping - ironically
tears of old oceans from whence we all came.
Roy
Awesomely, Awfully (tears of old oceans)
Awesomely, awfully, runs the sun over us
so ever-onwardly turns the green Earth
quite unforgettably, always oviparous,
carries the oceans, the place of our birth,
carries the mountains and skies tall and wondrous,
rolls ever under our mass at her girth.
Now we refer to the future: projecting it
carries a warning - illusions are dumb.
Earth can't survive 'less the species protecting it
sees her diseases both painful and numb.
Cannot revive if the testers inspecting it
stand unaware of how she may succumb.
Wake to the warning and hearten heroically:
carry the fight by the light of the flame.
See how she bears her mistreatment so stoically,
only occasionally fixing her aim...
Yet she is wounded and weeping - ironically
tears of old oceans from whence we all came.
Roy

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