This Kyrielle poem is about the crime of ignoring rising sea levels:
Criminal Denial
Fractured ice sheets grow by the day,
Become icebergs washed with sea spray,
Melting glaciers follow in time,
Rising sea levels are a crime.
Ninety-seven percent agree,
That this is a catastrophe,
Those in power won’t care in time,
Rising sea levels are a crime.
While battle lines are being drawn,
Places and ways of life are gone,
As water swallows all in time,
Rising sea levels are a crime.
The innocents will suffer most,
Rising sea levels are a crime.
I have visited Antarctica and seen massive ice sheets and glaciers. The scale was breathtaking. I then have to remind myself that I only saw a tiny part of the Antarctic Peninsula. The time for debate is over. Temperatures are warming there more than anywhere else on the planet. Ice sheets are breaking off. Once the ice sheets are gone, the impending catastrophe from the melting glaciers is only a matter of time. Meanwhile, those who feel obliged to serve only themselves or the uninformed, hold power in the US, keeping us all prisoners to this lowest common denominator. This denial of reality is a crime on humanity, and has to change.
A kyrielle is made of quatrains (stanzas) that rhyme. Each stanza has a line that repeats, so a line from a previous stanza. That line usually (but does not necessarily have to) be the last line in the stanza. Each line in the poem has eight syllables. There is no limit to the number of stanzas. Any type of rhyme scheme can be used