Quantcast
Channel: Poetry | The Guardian
Viewing all articles
Browse latest Browse all 4232

A climate change poem for today: Zoological Positivism Blues by Paul Muldoon

$
0
0

UK poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy curates a series of 20 original poems by various authors on the theme of climate change


Come with me to the petting zoo
Its waist high turnstile gate
Come with me to the petting zoo
We’ll prove it’s not too late
For them to corner something new
They can humiliate
You know the zoo in Phoenix Park
Began with one wild boar
It’s in the zoo in Phoenix Park
We heard the lion roar
And disappointment made its mark
On the thorn forest floor

Continue reading...

Viewing all articles
Browse latest Browse all 4232

Latest Images

Trending Articles





Latest Images