Ekphrastics: Midnight Garden
Monarch butterflies are going extinct:
the careless destruction of habitat
and overuse of pesticides is linked
to the death of butterflies and moths that
pollinate our crops and feed bats and birds
we need regulations, and rules, and laws
that protect the bugs: we need more than words,
we need to keep butterflies from the jaws
of extinction. Imagine how the world
would be without bugs to eat the garbage
that humans produce, the garbage unfurled
all across the landscape: a hopeless age
where insects no longer live beside us,
we need legislation that will guide us.
Ekphrastics: Paper Wings
A white bed sheet sprawled across a sofa,
the scent of body odor and sweat hangs
in the air, a person in a coma
once laid here, this is the place where he bangs
a multitude of women, the moist sheets
contain messages written in semen
he does it once, twice, three times, then repeats
the ritual again like a demon.
How on earth does he get loads of women
to go along banging with him, it's a
mystery, he smells just like a lemon
that's why women give him the time of day.
If I had mysterious skills like him
I'd bang a million women on a whim.
Ekphrastics: Vacation Apocalypse
A jet plane on its way to Australia
carries passengers of every color,
race, and creed. Along the plains Thalia
inspires the shepherds to write another
poem about goats and sheep, that they do.
Little do they know that the planes above
spew great clouds of carbon dioxide through
the atmosphere and a multitude of
other gasses that cause global warming.
One area suffers from massive floods,
another suffers a drought, bugs swarming
fields eating everything they can. Blue bloods
and titans of industry hardly care
about all the pollution in the air.
"Three Poems" by Kenneth Larot Yamat
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