There once was a planet named Earth
Quite beautiful, always, since birth
Then came acid rain
Now it’s viewed with disdain
These toxins have ruined its worth.
This phenomenon’s not very basic
When anions, often sulfuric
Wash away calcium
Also magnesium
Buffers gone—soil’s acidic!
SO2 formed by the burning of coal
And nitrogen oxides—they both play a role
To form acid rain
Which is just such a pain
Ecologically they take their toll.
Human lungs suck in some SO2
And also absorb the NO2
Bronchitis appears
And asthma, we fear
Is caused by the acid rain too
Fixing means buffers are replaced,
But if we continue at this pace,
We will never be done,
The solution will be none,
Because the money is being erased.
Acids kill biodiversity,
As proven in the university
Animals lose sons and
Fishes are poisoned
By smog and exhaust from the city
Humans put sulfur up in the air
Much, much more than ought to be there
Moisture + SO3
= acidity
Damaging our statues fair
Acid in soil is hard for green things
The fish will agree that acid rain stings
The death of the grass
And the fish in mass
Damage to forests the future brings
Lower PH than they could take
It left us with an empty lake
Less crustaceans and fish
Fewer plants than we wish
Acid rain oh our hearts you did break
Acidified statues stand broken
The future they seem to betoken
Is our world cursed?
Or can this be reversed?
Oh what horrible monsters we’ve woken!
First draft looked pretty good. Things I changed:
ReplyDeleteI changed a lot of the punctuation to make it more consistent from poem to poem.
I rephrased the 6th one because some of the words didn’t exactly rhyme.
On the 7th one I changed the last line to say repair instead of fair – I think it made more sense that way. And there were too many syllables in the first two lines so I took out a few words to make it the same phrasing as the rest of the limericks.
I got rid of what used to be the 8th one- but I posted it here in case someone thinks we should modify it and stick it back in there. I thought it was unnecessary and the last three lines are really confusing.
Acid in soil is hard for green things.
The fish agree that acid rain stings.
The death of the grass
and the fish in mass
damage to forests the future brings.
I also switched a few around towards the end, because that way all of them that have to do with the same topic are together.
Other than this stuff, it looks good!
Jackie