The Poles


By Dennis L. Siluk
Feb. 24, 2005

I am human because

Of ice

On both sides

Of the Earth…

Currents make us

Warm or cold…

Water flows

The way the Gulf Stream

Goes…

Should Greenland disappear

So would the thick ice

And cold air…

Solar energy warms

The atmosphere

The ice starts to melt

Shiny ice reflects

We’re cold again

(my friend, I’d guess)…

Salty-evaporation

Flies into the air…

The wind takes the heat

From the west to the east

Thus, it sinks

And so we start over

Again…

Water sinks

It stops flowing

Now where does it go…

—To the North or South Poles?

There is more to this poem

Than meets the eye

Or mind

An ice-free world

Is a possibility…

Climate change

Could mean many things

It is all about balance and heat

I think….

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