University of Miami Special Report: Climate Change

University of Miami Special Report: Climate Change

  • The Complex Climate
    • Solving the Climate Puzzle
    • — Hurricanes on Demand
    • — Corals Struggle to Survive
    • — Eyes on the Arctic
    • — Predicting the Future Through the Past
    • — Hovering Over Environmental Research
    • — Crunching Data at CCS
    • — Climate’s Impact Through the Ages
    • — At the 26.5 Parallel
    • — Flooding Events Increase on Beaches
    • — Remote Sensing the World’s Oceans
  • Built Environment
    • A Resilient and Innovative Future
    • — Building a Sustainable U
    • — Mapping Forgotten Places
    • — Zoning in on Evacuation Plans
    • — Miami Beach Reimagined
    • — The ‘Brush’ to Save Water
    • — ‘Living In Different Times’
    • — Sustainable Development in the Brazilian Amazon
    • — Anatomy of a Smart City
  • Renewable Energy
    • The Power Struggle
    • — UM Student Launches USolar Project
    • — Beyond the Battery
    • — Methane as a Fuel Source
    • — Taking Electrons for a Spin
  • Impact on Health
    • Planet and People in Peril
    • — Battling Vector-Borne Diseases
    • — Climate Change’s Unexpected Impact
    • — Healthy Buildings Help People
    • — Every Breath We Take
    • — Turning Down the Heat
    • — Nurses at the Ready
    • — Dangerous Migration
    • — One Water
  • Politics of (Climate) Change
    • The Spin Cycle of Climate Change Policy
    • — DiCaprio Visits Rosenstiel
    • — IPCC: Global Perspective Through a Local Lens
    • — The City Beautiful Confronts Climate Change
    • — The Art of Climate Change
    • — Visualizing Sea-Level Rise
    • — Communicating the Climate
    • — Inside the Abess Center
    • — Investigating Glacier Health
    • — Collaborating with Teachers
    • — Exploring the Invisible
    • — Sea Secrets Tell All

Your Haiku to the Environment

Your Haiku to the Environment

The Entries

A haiku is a form of poetry, started in Japan, which uses 17 syllables arranged in three lines in specific order.

First line, 5 syllables; second line, 7 syllables; third line, 5 syllables.

Remember: 5 – 7 – 5


YouthBuild
Together we build
A future for our planet
Loving space for all.
— YouthBuild USA

People
The earth is dying
Preserve our water sources
There is not much left…
— Lizzie

oh, sweet Mother Earth, teach me…
so empty inside;
oh, sweet Mother Earth, teach me…
the dance of the wind
— Ernesto P. Santiago

Monochrome
Hear desperate lungs
asphyxiate with burnt soot
Hail Mary! Earth dies grey.
— Divya M.

Miami Sea
Miami sea brings
its sound, beauty and riches
love it, keep it.
— Cristi

The Yellow Flowers
The Yellow Flowers
Dress the field in harmony
Thou gloried in spring.
— Cristi Berger

Progress in science
Progress in science
relies on thorough study,
clear thought and teamwork.
— —

Inside
Go outside to play
Waters rise to come and stay
So I go inside
— Julian

‘Bergs been meltin’—so where’ the flood?
Research bucks at stake!
The sky is falling, again!
Sunspots; not my fault.
— —

Haiku Miami
Haiku Miami
Heed the call, earthly presence
The rising seas come
— AB

Climate Change for Someone Old
Grow old in my home
Till out in a box but now
Till I float away
— —

Paradise
Iridescent skies
Clear blue waves crashing on shores
Protect paradise
— Laura

Intoxicating Vanity
Anthropogenic
Delusion of one who is
Anthropocentric
— —

Intoxicating Vanity
Anthropogenic
Delusion of one who is
Anthropocentric
— —

Love
it’s the air we breathe
pure, clean, fresh, pollution free
let’s keep it that way
— S.R.E.

3-Ways to Help
Use less fresh water.
Conserve electricity.
Burn less fossil fuels.
— K.V.W.

Carbonic Acid and Coccolithophores
Carbonic acid
Coccolithophores sink down
Sediment lost
— B.P.

Carbonic Acid
CO2 to sea
Surface high acidity
Inhibit plankton
— B.P.

Sun Power
Photosynthesis
Costs nothing, clothes and feeds us
What are we missing?
— J.H.

Emilianiya huxleii
Calcite secreting
Carbon dioxide enters
huxleii dissolves
— B.P.

Earth Day 2016
Earth day climate now,
Was it the same as last year?
No…climate change…see!
— K.V.W.

Working as One
Revive our planet
We owe it to our children
Do it together
— A.S.

Goodbye
You were always there
I loved it when you would thrive
But now it’s hopeless
— —

Save the Planet
Rising sea levels
Destruction to planet Earth
This is climate change
— L.M.G.

Immersed
Fragrant flowers bloom,
and the cigarette smoke looms –
I smell both the same.
— B.N.B.

Our Survival
Our planet can’t live
If we stay our present course
Humans must decide
— D.K.

Water-Energy-Food Nexus
Climate change affects
Water-energy-food tie.
Uncouple nexus.
— K.V.W.

Water-Energy-Food Nexus
Climate change affects
Water-energy-food tie.
Uncouple nexus.
— K.V.W.

Carbon
Solid carbon good.
Gas, liquid carbon not good.
Fix carbon solid.
— K.V.W.

Mother Earth
Hear our mother Earth,
Heed her when she begs us to
Care for her wellness
— —

Help!
Water property,
Savings spent, but could be lost.
Help from science and all!
— K.V.W.

Transformation
Metamorphosis
Seas will force Adaptation
Embrace, Reconceive
— J.A.

Treasure Earth
Earth is in our care –
Vulnerable, beautiful;
Treasure our planet.
— J.R.M.

Sea Level Rising
Paddle to the sea,
but the sea came up to me!
Let’s float in the flood.
— M.K.

Climate Hope and Deeds
Reverse climate change?
Sustainability now!
More deeds and less talk.
— K.V.W.

No Environment
No environment
No reason to be alive
No more sunny skies
— M.G.

Renew
In all her beauty
Mother Earth asks for nothing
more than renewed life.
— Megan

Climate Policy
Care environment.
No funds, but research still good;
Keep good professor.
— K.V.W.

Anthropocene Age
Anthropocene Age
Sea rise underway, they say
Blind and remorseless
— L.M.B.

Prediction
What will happen when
Blues and greens turn black and grey
The Earth stops singing
— C.L.M.

Do we rise?
A rise in our seas
we do nothing but wonder
we act or ponder
— L.R.

The Environment’s Savior
The enviroment
Needs humanities saving
Animals need help
— D.K.

—
The fact is true that
Science is never settled;
We must keep learning
— —

Beauty
Seeing earth’s wonder
Focused on the now and then
where is the future
— —

Changing Earth
Diverse planet Earth
Changed fast by same force that will
Ingenue new paths
— J.M.C.

Sun
Sunset magical
Over turquoise waters now
Feel the sparkling
— P.E.H.


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