GLOBAL WARMING: An Octet--Winner

GLOBAL WARMING: An Octet

What causes the global warming?
Mother Earth’s bowels are dug.
Out come fossil fuels,
Burnt in cars and hearths.
Gas emission;
Green house forms.
Heat trapped;
Warms.

*Awarded Honourable mention prize in the “FormWork” contest, "Invalid Item" , hosted by whippoorwill, on the theme—“Nature”, for which it was written.

*An octet is an 8-line poem with decreasing syllable counts per line, leading to a syllabic count of 8/7/6/5/4/3/2/1.

M C Gupta
4 September 2012