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Ecopoems and Animated Ecopoems
Ecopoems express thoughts, feelings and emotions
on the interrelations of living organisms with their environments. Ecopoems connect us through language, sound and sight to how our precious natural heritage is respected, which defines love of the earth.
My Legacy
laboured
for progress
I
am the first with
pesticides in my fat radioactive
strontium and cesium
in my bones nitrous
oxide and asbestos
in my lungs mirex
in my muscles dioxin
in my wine
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censored
I hung a word on an old pine tree
they cut down the tree
I strung my word on a pine sapling
they pushed down the sapling
I placed the word by a pine seedling
they plowed down the seedling
I traced my word on the sun-baked soil
it blew away
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Long Live the King a new road pierces the wilderness a young bull moose mounts the invader a truck horn blares the moose bugles the truck charges the moose charges a King is born ______
a coal miner's test
an over-heated "No-stick Treated" pot
emits hot fumes that she assumes will not
be harmful till the vapours kill her lot
of caged canaries
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Lakehood
a lake
needs a loon
to laugh with the moon
to be a lake
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unfathomable
a political cartoon of a noble whale in a concrete jail prodded to perform to lunge from the water as the audience cheers a whale trainer prancing dancing on the whale's nose a bruised nose my brother's nose
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Signs
wild animals in the stars wild animals in the clouds
what will we see in them when the wild ones are gone
______ A Matter of Taste a partridge in a pine tree exquisite to see a budworm in a pine tree repugnant to me a budworm in a partridge a delicacy
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Untitled Couplets
the large fierce animals are dead the meek inherit earth instead --- we say in an arrogant way that we are much smarter than they --- sly nature plays a trick each time one dreams of love as love sublime for love is nature's prank we face, her ruse to reproduce each race --- a snapping turtle snaps at me "dioxin saps virility" --- follow the trail of the fox to tell the tale of the fox --- Animated Poems
The text for these computer-generated ecopoems was digitized, rotated, coloured and flipped using animation software. These animated poems can be viewed in your browser if you have Shockwave Flash installed on your system. BUTTERFLY BEAUTIFLY BEAUTIFUL, the first animated poem in this series, was created in 1987 and animated in 2000. Click on the titles below to bring these poems to life. Afterwards, press the "back" button of your browser to return to this page.
The "ABC Book of Extinctions" shown here has also been published by Coach House Books --see www.chbooks.com/archives/online_books/abc_book_of_extinctions/
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