How HSBC Clean Air Achievers can ENGAGE students!

The following poem was 'acted out' by three students from Collingwood Collegiate this week at the Celebration of their HSBC Clean Air Achievers program. Written by Grant S, it was a real highlight! Again - Many thanks to CCI teacher Shawn Gibson for his vision!

The Story of the Three Trees – Morgan, Mo and Fraser

The air is filled
Filled with CO2
Which trees absorb
As they always do
The gas is stored
Inside it’s trunk.
And in the ground
Where roots are sunk



The Trees were dancing,
In the forest so green,
When all of a sudden,
A car got mean.
The tree named Morgan
Collapsed in a heap
And left all the others
To sadly weep

Out of Mo’s body
Carbon was released
Into the atmosphere
And away from the deceased
But Down to the trees
The carbon came back
Into the forest
And Into Zack

Then along came a man
Of a very large build
Who sent a small shiver
And left the trees chilled
The logger approached
A tree named Fraser
He swung his axe
It cut like a razor

The tree was dragged
To a place of fire
Poor Fraser was burned
On this industrial pyre
But just like poor Morgan
Carbon was emitted
and to the environment
A crime was committed



This cycle continues
Absorbed and gone
Until it is meddled with
Like what’s going on
We are poisoning our air
With our cars on the road
Increasing carbon levels
Until earth explodes!
BOOM!



That is the story
Of three little trees
Who because of humans
Were brought to their knees