The Frog in Me
News Poetry Inspired by Events and News of the Day.
CNN compared me to a frog today
a frog in the hot water of climate change
to shift the trends of climate
so short compared to climate change time
my expectations and biases
make me a poor judge of temperature change they say
because like the boiling frog
I don’t feel the difference
I must do as others are starting
grow my awareness and concern
look for climate change in my own community
today tomorrow and the next day on
News Poetry Written in response to the article: Humans are frogs in hot water of climate change, research says.
Originally published at http://www.poetry24.co.uk on March 1, 2019.
If you ask a Bengali child in India what the frog says, she will not say “Ribbit” but rather “Ghangor-Ghang” If you ask a Korean child what does the frog say, he will say “Gae-Gool-Gae-Gool “ rather than “Croak-Croak.” On his journey around the world, Rodney Randall, an Olympic Peninsula Tree Frog learns many ways to say “Ribbit” or “Croak-Croak” including: Bellan, Bjala, Berp-Berp, Brekeke, Brekk, Kutykurutty, Kvákk, Brekeg, Vartyog,
