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Rated: E · Poetry · Nature · #1889481
[The main cause of global warming is excessive burning of fossil fuels.]
GLOBAL WARMING: An Octet


What causes the global warming?
Mother Earth’s bowels are dug.
Out come fossil fuels,
Burnt in cars and hearths.
Gas emission;
Green house forms.
Heat trapped;
Warms.




*Awarded Honourable mention prize in the “FormWork” contest, "Invalid Item" Open in new Window., hosted by whippoorwill, on the theme—“Nature”, for which it was written.

*An octet is an 8-line poem with decreasing syllable counts per line, leading to a syllabic count of 8/7/6/5/4/3/2/1.

M C Gupta
4 September 2012


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