Can poetry change the climate for frogs?

      Poems affect our spirits as well as our minds. And Split This Rock is looking for poems that protest and witness, world-changing poems.  Go here for information about their Eighth Annual Poetry Contest (with submission deadline November 1, 2014).
     Here in this blog, as I present connections between poetry and mathematics, I provide some poems of protest and advocacy.  I advocate attention to problems of climate change -- to keep our world habitable; I advocate full recognition of women in the sciences -- for a not dissimilar reason.  We must not waste our resources.
     One translation of a famous frog-pond Haiku by Basho was offered on 21 June 2010.  Dozens of different translations of that same Haiku are supplied here.  It offers a simple picture:

          old pond
          a frog jumps into
          the sound of water        translated by Jane Reichhold

From this, it is a small step to a Save the Frogs website where we find information concerning the threats of climate change along with advocacy for endangered frogs.  And, keeping in mind Basho's Haiku, we find a startling counterpart in the following:

          Ancient pond
          Frog jumps
          No sound of water          by Carolanne Reynolds

     At TreeHugger.com  we find a poem by former British Poet Laureate Sir Andrew Motion that highlights consequences of climate change. Here (with a nod to Robert Frost) is its final stanza:

     Our woods were lovely, dark and deep.
     A landscape we’d made promises to keep.
     Until we deemed the price too steep.
     Until we deemed the price too steep.