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
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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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