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being human

"The current rate of extinction is 100 to 1000 times higher than the average, or background
rate, making our current period the 6th major mass extinction in the planet's history."

at the expense of being human
the world is burning....
the aftermath of Civilizations,
less than empathetic
and intelligent
..
species vanish
a picture speaks for what the passenger
pigeon carried to the light of day,

the Barbary Lion roars no more
in savannah grassland
and the Golden Toad laughs with the
Laughing Owl laughing

unrepentant, there will be blood
and oil, here is the world we
co-create

here lies man in his killing fields
the Parrot of Paradise,
mocking his memory.

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/extinct-animals-in-the-last-100-years.html

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The list of the Endangered Species if frighteningly & astonishingly long. http://www.buzzle.com/articles/list-of-all-endangered-species.html

Humans may soon be added to the list, depending on what we do or don't do.

~A

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The earth will self correct, it has done it before. It will get rid of the virus with its own anti-bodies. Good-by to man is all I can say.
Now this is clear and to the point!

Eddie

LIFE ISN'T ABOUT WAITING FOR THE STORM TO PASS
IT'S ABOUT LEARNING HOW TO DANCE IN THE RAIN.
VIVIAN GREENE

;-)

perhaps I should add they are extinct in the wild but perhaps genetically intact in a few zoos

http://www.petermaas.nl/extinct/speciesinfo/barbarylion.htm

~A

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Forgive this negative comment, it;s just me down in the depths again.

cheers,
Jess
A new workshop on the most important element of poetry-
'Rhythm and Meter in Poetry'
https://www.neopoet.com/workshop/rhythm-and-meter-poetry

Nothing to forgive Jess.

I more often than not am certain that *human beings* are not the epitome of creation, we're
pretty much hopeless unless love becomes our modern day religion.

Love for ourselves, love for one another and love for the planet and our place in history.

So far we've done everything as a species except wipe love off the face of the planet.

~A

btw, this is another version of the poem on critique at the shark pool

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He gives a sci-fi future that makes the human race worrthwhile.
.

cheers,
Jess
A new workshop on the most important element of poetry-
'Rhythm and Meter in Poetry'
https://www.neopoet.com/workshop/rhythm-and-meter-poetry

And won of the smatrest noveliststs I have ever read.

cheers,
Jess
A new workshop on the most important element of poetry-
'Rhythm and Meter in Poetry'
https://www.neopoet.com/workshop/rhythm-and-meter-poetry

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