Global Warming: Ninette

By Vandana Sharma

Ice

Melting

Sea rising

Polar bears on

Brim of extinction

Global warming

Raising fangs

Thawing

Ice

The Ninette is a form that uses nine lines. Each line increases by one syllable until the middle line, (five syllables) after which the syllable count in the lines following goes back down from four to one. The first and last words of this poem can be 1) the same 2) antonyms or 3) synonyms.

About poet

Vandana Sharma earned her PhD from AIIMS, New Delhi. Poetry writing is her hobby. Her poems (general and science) have been published in various national/international poetry and peer reviewed medical journals. Some of them are Harvests of New Millennium, Sky Island Journal, Rewrite Sunlight Anthology, Ashvamegh Magazine, VerbalArt, Borderless Journal, Consilience (peer reviewed science poetry journal), International Journal of Epidemiology.

Her poems can be read at: https://doctorvandanasharma.blogspot.com/