Fantasy is Going Green

One day I thought 'Hey, how would the elves and the dwarves and all those other fantastical creatures feel about global warming and what we've done to the environment?' I wrote down eleven words that rhymed with environment and wrote this.

 

I’m warning you all, the situation is dire,

All Faerie has risen in anger and ire,

They’ve come out of their retirement,

Humans are bad for the environment.

 

Every old dragon’s come out of his lair,

“Your bad greenhouse gases have poisoned the air!”

They are done letting their anger ferment,

‘Cause humans have wrecked the environment.

 

The elves are armed up against every nation,

It seems that they’ve heard of mass deforestation,

Since of their forest we’ve taken fifty percent,

They’ve come to protect the environment.

 

The brownies are small, this is their distinction;

But they’re still rankled over species’ extinction,

Natural habitats have taken a dent,

Humans are bad for the environment?

 

The dwarves are fed up with our strip mining habits,

Ripping up the earth like burrowing rabbits,

Since we haven’t given them even one cent,

They say that we’re bad for the environment.

 

The mermaids are angry beyond solution,

I’ll tell you; it’s ‘cause of oceanic pollution,

The sea’s resources are being spent,

Humans have soiled the environment.

 

Grab up your weapons! Protect the home soil!

Defend our refineries, save all our oil!

On our defeat all fantasy is bent,

‘Cause humans are bad for the environment.

Author's Note

Are there any problems with the rhyme scheme or the meter or anything? Thanks!
Oh, and you probably know this, but 'Faerie' is the mythical land of elves, giants and (duh) fairies in Medieval superstition.

Reviews

[Daniel]

"All Faerie has" -- I'm wondering if this should be "All Faerie's have".
"out of his lair" - out of their lair maybe?

Other than those two small things, I really enjoyed this. It took me a few minutes to hit the form of rhyming because I wasn't reading it correctly, but once I did it was really good. The parts that were difficult to read because of unknown rhyming were: "They've come out of their retirement,/Humans are bad for the environment." and "They are done letting their anger ferment,/'Cause humans have wrecked the environment".

Otherwise, great read. Keep up the good work! :)

[Mintwhiskers]

i loooove this poem the rhyme scheme is great it truely shows that u r a very imaganative person

[Emily B]

All the mythical worlds know that humans are bad for the environment. . . great write!

[Mr. Misanthrope]

Amazing use of imagination! I don't believe I would have ever considered the view of fantasy creatures on global warming. Very comical, friendly, yet still hinting at the large amount of importance we must give to an ultimately dangerous issue.

I don't see anything wrong anywhere in this poem. Keep up the good work.

Luke

[Shanna (Renae)]

Wow! I absolutely adore this poem! I have no criticisms.

This is most assuredly going in my favs.

[Céce]

lol, this is hilarious! You're so original, Scott. I have no idea how you thought this up. This is real selling humor, in my opinion! My favorite stanza is the elves one..."mass deforestation"...that just cracked me up! But okay, I'm on to reading some more!

[Mitji]

Oh my word! I loved this. I loved how you incorporated a bunch of mythical creatures not just like one or two but even the brownies! LOVED IT!!! Keep up the good writing

[angelina neves]

Lovely!
And I'm with the fairies and the dragons and the elves: "Cause humans have wrecked the environment.' - and the "weapons" used by nature against humans are all around: change of whether, virus, sickness, degeneration, disappear of many forms of life�

[Flame DM]

This is amazing! Creative and original this definately got me laughing. Sad to say i'm part of the problem, since i'm a lousy kid after all. The repetition of your last line using enviroment was a nice tie to it all. Two thumbs up dude!

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[Gregory Hill]

Nice job its pretty good nice idea and content the ryming is a bit akward in some parts but ovwerall a good poem.

[Hayame]

Your poem was well written and I loved it! As far as the dragon's lair goes, I think it sounds fine as "his" rather than "their" because you're talking about each old dragon respectively not them as a group... I think. :P