Guest poem by Mark Stewart

Mark is a short story writer focusing on nature, conservation, history and speculative fiction. His poem was partly inspired by the wonderful work Greta Thunberg has done to help raise awareness of climate change issues.

The Berg

Undone by the sun

By warmth I should never know

My very essence leaking away

Like mist before the dawn

Cold vapours sliding into the sea

Fading like a distant star

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Glimmering in my core

Reflections of ages past

Echoing the terminal impact

That ended the saurian kings

Jewelled arteries, polar blue  

Glinting with the light of ancient days  

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Snow softy sifting

In a timeless rain

Never diminishing, layer upon layer

Like the pearled valves of a conch

A slow avalanche, as in a dream of falling

Descending the sky’s empty ocean

The end of being

Looming like a spectral galleon

A brigantine born upon the night tide

Dissevered from a yet greater mass

Adrift now on wayward tides

The world’s axis all-a-kilter  

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A voluptuous hollow filled with ice

Undulating in eternal stillness

More immense than any mountain peak

The sinker of titanic ships

Slipping into nothingness

As if I had never been

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