Selected Poems – Sophia Stylianos
By Sophia Stylianos, Sidwell Friends School
“Planets of Yesterday”The intertwined vibrant corals of yesterdayOranges and blues and reds all turning to white gray lifeless lumps at the bottom of the seaAn ocean that is becoming a sea of plasticWater that used to be blue will be gray black with oilAll of this was alive before humans started the destructionFrom the mammoth to the galapagos tortoise there is always somethingAnother species to destroy another land to discover more oil to drillBut soon there will be none leftThere is only one earthwhen are we going to start taking care of it
“Tiger Clouds”I can ride a cloudWalk on waterRun to the tigersWith the tigersCatch the tigers raise the tigers become a tigerAll things are living breathing a soul is within themSo when all of us are ...