ANNOUNCEMENT - WITH A CLUSTER OF CLIMERICKS : 3 - As Of Old a Prophetic Voice

Within the next couple of weeks, we will be offering CLIMERICK CARDS for sale. These cards are intended to provoke Climate concern discussions, provide an impactful vehicle for conveying messages to MPs, Senators and others in power: and to alert your friends and acquaintances of your interest in, or passion for, this critical issue.  

Ahead of the launch, we will be publishing three CLUSTERS of three CLIMERICKS to prepare the way for the opening of our ETSY shop

Here’s the third of the first cluster

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 As of old, a Prophetic Voice

goes unheeded by many, through choice;

now with prophets arrested

 

our leaders attested

their shocking pro-fossil-fuel ploys.

This CLIMERICK looks back to Mid-October 2023 when Greta Thunberg was arrested for joining a Climate change protest in London.

 

ANNOUNCEMENT with a CLUSTER OF CLIMERICKS: 2 How Can Someone Think on Their Feet?

 Within the couple of weeks, we will be offering CLIMERICK CARDS for sale. These cards are intended to provoke Climate concern discussions, provide an impactful vehicle for conveying messages to MPs, Senators and others in power: and to alert your friends and acquaintances of your interest in, or passion for, this critical issue.  

Ahead of the launch, we will be publishing three CLUSTERS of three CLIMERICKS to prepare the way for the opening of our ETSY shop

Here’s the second of the first cluster

                                            Hot cobbles: Adapted Pixabay free image

How can someone think on their feet,

when pavements store hideous heat

of some fifty* degrees:

they must long for a freeze.

but it seems torrid heats will repeat.

(During 2025, pavement temperatures of 130ºF *(54ºC) have been experienced in India and in the USA)

Island Return (Lindisfarne)

WE are back on the beautiful Island of Lindisfarne in Northumbia, UK. Here, at times when the island is cut off from the mainland is a deep peacefulness which could very reasonably be described as ‘balm for the soul’. We have been coming to Lindisfarne since 2013 when we visited in November and gained personal experience of why Lindisfarne is also known as The Isle of Winds! But that did not deter us. This  ‘thin space’, inhabited by saints and evincing a beauty which can be breathtaking, has called us back again, and again, and we are always delighted to make it safely across the causeway and be welcomed by the deep-throated song of the seals.  This poem emerged within a day of arriving.

Seals on the northern tip of a sandbank

 at low tide on a previous visit to the island.

 

ISLAND RETURN

With an hour of safe-crossing still to go,

we coast across the causeway

in our newly acquired, zero emissions car.

 

We are heading for our oft-visited

Lindisfarne retreat.

 

To our delight, the seals

are once again waiting

to slither off the sandbags

as the wavelets, inexorably wash over them.

 

Is it too fanciful

to imagine,

that the last heads

to bob above the ripples,

might be deniers

of the inevitability

of rising water?

 

September 2025 

ANNOUNCEMENT - WITH A CLUSTER OF CLIMERICKS : 1 - If You Take a Regular Shower

 Within the next couple of weeks, we will be offering CLIMERICK CARDS for sale. These cards are intended to provoke Climate concern discussions, provide an impactful vehicle for conveying messages to MPs, Senators and others in power: and to alert your friends and acquaintances of your interest in, or passion for, this critical issue.  

Ahead of the launch, we will be publishing three CLUSTERS of three CLIMERICKS to prepare the way for the opening of our ETSY shop

Here’s the first of the first cluster

Image credit Public Domain on Pixabay

If you take a regular shower,

please don’t take one sixth of an hour:

turn it off while you soap,

keep it short to build hope:

you’ll be saving both water and power

CLIMERICK (of HOPE): We All Need To Take A NewView,

New Scientist of 5th September 2025 carried three articles which I interpreted as pointing to the inevitable demise of the fossil fuel industries (Hurrah!) - but when?. To believe in the possibility that it will be sooner rather than later, needs huge numbers of investors realising how many ordinary people want this change brought about. So here's - a CLIMERICK of HOPE. Let’s reinforce this idea and do all we can to accelerate progress towards it. (EV or Solar panels anyone?).

We all need to take a new view,

that clean air technology’s tru-

ly a better investment,

by any sane judgement,

than fossil fuels’ oft fatal spews.

Find more about the thinking behind the growing collection of CLIMERICKS HERE  

CLIMERICK: So Reform Wants to Push Foolish Fracking,

Image: Fracking N Dakota - Wikipedia

After the discovery of a gas field in Lincolnshire, Reform’s Greater Lancashire Mayor is demanding we “drill, baby, drill”and with Reform’s big party conference just days away, they’re trying to turn fracking into a rallying cry.

Here’s my response to that folly:

So Reform wants to push foolish fracking,

with little idea of the whacking

risks there might be

from tremors deadly,

and foul fumes spewed out from the cracking.

Find more about the thinking behind the growing collection of CLIMERICKS HERE