By My Tides – 12th August 2025

~ shaun tenzenmen

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I am a poison sink,
– a salty stink;
All the garbage dumped on me,
deep inside, where you never see;

Here I lie, absorbing this,
– your smelly piss;
I’m warming up for bigger blows
and thunderous electric shows;

The spilling of your sticky glues
mixes in my lethal stews;
My life may soon abandon me
to strike your shores randomly;

Monsters roaming adrift,
– a seismic shift
wreaking havoc in your community,
a slip that comes deservedly;

Fed from the mountains high,
then forever multiply;
Your moonlit veins of cyanide
will bury your dead, petrified;

Pushing through a narrow strait,
– winds whipped to create
the rising of a hurricane,
gathering your toxic rain;

I will be the antidote,
– your footnote;
A wave to overcome the pests,
complete destruction manifests.

Charlie Zero The Poet Music picks & Reviews #23 and my quick thoughts:

Villaelvin – This was pretty cool to listen to while I was doing other things. Some nice glitchy electronics.

Stine Janvin – This is too art gallery for my liking. Fine in the appropriate location, and I can think of many in Sydney back in the day, but not for me in my room.

Macula Dog – I’m familiar with MD already but hadn’t heard this one before. Gonna check it out some more.

Wreck and Reference – What an interesting record. At times it’s like a black metal album but with the drums and guitars removed, screamo vocals over keyboards. Nothing much catches for me but I love the idea.

Venetian Snares – The difficulty that I have with VS is that while skipping through the tracks it all became just the one song. It felt like it would be very easy to clip out bits, mix them up and call it a new album.

19 thoughts on “By My Tides – 12th August 2025”

  1. The message I understood within the poem. We as humans have done so much harm to our water, dirt, environment, animals and earth herself. Eventually earths tears as the oceans, she will roar with rage and drown us all. I love this one and one of my favorites. 🙂

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  3. This is a great rhyming poem to be chanted at protests, sung and shared with everyone, Shaun. The ocean is precious, deep and mysterious, and the human race has turned it into a ‘poison sink’.

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  7. I have dedicated my professional life to eliminating the use of toxic chemicals but I have to say I have the least amount of hope now that anything will be done in time. There are so many barriers, there are 85,000 chemicals on the market that we have insufficient safety data for and others like 6PPD that create legacies of harm by combining with things in the environment. It keeps me up at night, great poem, incredibly important subject!

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