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# What Happens to Poetry After Two Decades of Climate Change
- URL: https://www.andyposner.org/poetry-after-climate-change/
- Published: 2021-07-10T20:43:21.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-15T05:03:04.000Z
- Description: My early poems aspired to Keats and Blake; were about magic, dreams, and heartbreak. Most rhymed, were trite, and told more than showed; rolled off the tongue, no taste of the acid down below.
- Author: Andy
- Tags: Be The Change, poetry, climate change, #Migrated-1784090317409, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-07-15 04:39

My early poems aspired to Keats and Blake;  
were about magic, dreams, and heartbreak.

Most rhymed, were trite, and told more than showed;  
rolled off the tongue, no taste of the acid down below.

Verse should consist of spit and bile;  
extract vomit from an easy smile.

I don’t know who reads poetry now, or why;  
whether they do it in the open, or on the sly.

See, between heat waves I mop up my sweat;  
put out fires as if the world were a cigarette.

I do not smoke, alas, nor have time for metaphor;  
and the ashes keep falling—too weighty to ignore.