Man doth use the petro flame, but
Sun and wind are not the same!
They power honest, fair, and true;
(Though kilojoules produced are few),
Our evil fuels we must eschew
It’s been foretold that all will die,
And oceans rise, because the sky
is filled by fruits of our endeavor;
From our lives we have to sever
Carbon, or doom earth forever.
Do not question!! “Yes we can!”;
Carbon we will forthwith ban,
Science has outlived its span; for
Climate change was made by Mann
– Erik Larsen
Brilliant, Erik.
Nice . Fetch the man some carbon credits .
Bravo, Erik! And you don’t expect a Nobel Prize!
Speaking of things that rhyme, here’s an hilarious video called Climategate Christmas.
CNN finally covers Climategate — a debate. Nice Erik!
I applaud standing up.
Good work.
Hey, thanks! Not to be modest, but to actually be honest, there were a lot of entries finer than mine, and I had better not name which ones so I don’t offend those I forgot to mention.
(I’ll stop writing before Kanye West comes and grabs the keyboard from me.)
Are the microphones off? Good. Kanye West is a jackass.
Very funny! “Mann made climate change”! Dangerous indeed. How simple, obvious and hilarious. Wish I’d thought of it!
Roses are dead
Violets are soar
Al Gore is an As—le
Not just a Climate Wh–e!!
Bravo, Erik Larsen!
After reading most of the posts on the poetry thread I had intended to cite yours as my personal favourite, but was interrupted by non-productive work for my regulatory masters.
Yours stuck me as the most naturally poetic (in the pre-post-modern sense).
The only flaw I could detect was that I could actually understand — and enjoy it — on first read.
I smell a Nobel in Literature.
Excellent.
Last friday when I attempted to plow out my drive. I moved 50 feet on my small lawn tractor with my snow blade, only to bog down and stick in the 14 inches of powder. I went to the shed to get my snow thrower. Which was out of fuel. As I proceeded to fill the machine, then clear my 100 meter drive way. I let the darn tractor run.
I feel no guilt.
Great poem Eric, maybe we should send that to our M.P.’s
Well-deserved, Erik.
Al Gore will be speaking on CNN this hour. This should be interesting.
Good one Erik.And I agree, we are among real poets here!
anne…it will only be interesting if the CNN team are not grovelling at his feet, and if they dare to throw him some tough questions.
Take one for the team..and get back to us please.
Me no dhimmi – a friend of mine dissed me for not giving the nod to John McCrae – ie – stealing the “carryover lines” style from him – true that!!
And although undeserving, I think I was given the award (kind of like the Nobel committee does) to encourage future endeavours
Way to go Erik. As far as the Nobel is concerned, you deserve the one that should be pulled off Gore’s neck.
Good for you.
Well met, Erik.
i guess the concept of finding the goreacle’s hole with flour disqualified me…..damn
Thanks for bringing that up kingston lad – another sleepless night for me! 😉
Ghost of Ed – some of the stuff you wrote yesterday was not only clever, but made me laugh out loud, an infrequent occurrence!
Here’s a video of the Goracle spewing his ‘poetry’ to a CNN reporter. What the man lacks in talent he makes up for in chutzpah.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2009/12/09/al_gore_reads_his_global_warming_poem_to_cnn_reporter.html
warning – video may cause vomiting
Erik
I have to tell you that I carefully read through the poems and comments more than once, three times actually and I too was laughing out loud and without lying I had tears in my eyes. The variety of styles and emulation of other poets was quite imaginative.
It was a hoot.
rubbish(gnash gnash)to erik’s derivative effort..(altho a few sweet conceits reside within it )
erik’s effort was Popean(or was it Miltonian) because MY contribution was quintessential Pope….when i masterfully subbed “Gorian’ for ‘Pirian” i knew there would be a wretched excess of imitators….
res ipsa etcetera
Erik. Mission accomplished, and I hope it had the same effect on bleet, T and the rest of the leftoid trolls.
john begley – doode – I prePoped you by two posts yesterday, nyuck nyuck
Is Erik Larsen now SDAs Poet Laureate?
SDA’s.
Bravo, Erik Larsen! Very well wrote, easy to understand. Had a hoot reading all entries.
Ha! Well deserved.