To the polar bears
You are big, tough, strong, and ferocious
They say the ice caps you live on will melt
They say you will lose your home
They say you will run out of food and starve
To the polar bears,
No one’s going to let you lose your home
No one’s going to let you starve
No one’s going to let you suffer and drown
To the polar bears
We are working to stop burning fossil fuels
We are going to stop driving cars that run on gasoline
We are going to do whatever we can to cut down our carbon emissions
To the polar bears
Just relax
Live your life
In your home
On the ice caps
And soon you will have nothing to worry about
By:Rumi Fitz-Rahmani
In this assignment, we were asked to write about a poem about climate change in the style of Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner. For my poem, I wrote about polar bears and how they’re losing their homes due to climate change and how we need to stop climate change. When other people read this poem, I hope they think about climate change and how it has to come to an end.
Rumi, I really enjoyed reading this poem. I like how you started off listing positive traits about the polar bear’s and then transitioned into the negatives that they are dealing with. You did a good job of painting the picture that the innocent bears are dealing with some huge struggles because of humans. However you did end on a positive note, which I thought was good. You said all of the things that people are going to stop doing like burning fossil fuels, cutting carbon emissions, etc. My question is, do you really think people are going to do this?