The book of poetry I read yesterday was a welcome relief. Winning Words: Inspiring Poems for Everyday Life this book really does live up to its blurb. Reading/researching climate change can be extremely depressing/debilitating. There’s a lot of hard work to be done … & it really does feel like a near impossible task. But reading so many of these poems made me feel excited & alive & tingled with hope & optimism & what not. So I wanted to try capturing that in my poem. 

I tied it in with a wonderful Joel Pett cartoon which became a meme in its own right. A disgruntled man right up the back of the auditorium of a Climate summit asks fellow conference goer a frustrated question. Only the first verse is shared.

The Poetic Factoid is a perfect example of the form. Me being silly.

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vision
What if it’s a big hoax & we create a better world for nothing?

What if we : take better care : of our home : of the natural world
. : value it : appreciate it for what it is : rather than what it can give us
What if we : redress : past inequalities : lift people out of poverty :
. : end the immorality : of billionaires
What if we : make the world : fairer : for every human 
. : regardless : of which country : they call home
. : remove the reasons : people flee their homelands

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Day 18 – TIL about OH&S for your vision 

20-20-20 vision 

when working at our screens
apparently we should 
be employing
the 20-20-20 rule

look at something twenty 
feet away every twenty 
minutes for twenty 
seconds

turns out i’ve been doing this for years
but bosses got made at me
called it — daydreaming!