Will The Sky Still Be Blue Poem by Allen Steble The Philosophical Poet

Wow. A wonderful poem on what I see unfortunately our future world to be in the not too distant future. Nicely written!

Flows smooth and the meanings are so transparent. Earth has gone through the depradations of humanity in umpteen ways. But life will survive, I suppose. Well done Allen.

Yes, Allen, speaking as a poet, a physicist, a romantic, and a man, the sky will still be blue, but the irony is that mankind will probably not be here to see it. So the question is a lot like, 'When a tree falls in the forest and there is no one to hear, is there any sound? ' Or my personal favorite, 'If a man is talking to himself, alone in a deep forest (and no woman is present) , is he still wrong? 'Sound' is a word created by man to describe an experience in what man thinks of as reality. If this life were just a dream, was not real in any way, would there be a 'sound' when a tree falls? Surely in this sense the answer to your question is 'No! ' because 'blueness' and 'sound', even 'time' are words invented by the mind of man, and without a human there to experience these events, they simply don't exist (unless God still remembers the names we gave these experiences and still cares) . But no need to worry about Mother Earth, She will no doubt survive this latest infestation of Her Largess by the apparently mindless parasite that humanity seems to be becoming. For like the dinosaurs, who likely would have perished of disease from swimming in their own fecal matter (had an asteroid not entered the picture) , humanity will perish too and be no more, not because of something external, but because we have eaten our own children, the last of us dying of either stomach cancer or perhaps just simple indigestion. The brain dead are almost always the last to perish simply because they never stop to think. Maybe intellect simply has no real survival value. 'Time' will tell! (For the brain dead out there, that is a joke!)

In my opinion the sky will always be blue or at list we will always see it as blue no matter what happens in our lives. It's almost ironic if I see it from this point of view! Liked it! :)

a vivid description of nature losing its importance in this present century. a good write.

A lovely poem where you expressed your genuine concern about the existence of this earth had the pollution is allowed to progress in this way....... very nice