An A-Z of Ecstasies and An A-Z of Mourning by Carbon Town Cryer

An A-Z of ecstasies
 
Allotments
Being alive/breaking bread/blockading baddies/bass/breaking out/butternut squash
Capitalism collapsing/chiaroscuro/clouds a-scudding/chocolate
Drinking homebrew/dream/dark & light/delicious pudding/dark chocolate
Ecstaties right now/erotic delights
Freaks that we are/funereal material/ceremonies
Greasy spoons/gorgeous germinations/grieving/gospel(icious)
Hills to climb/here we go/heading into the unknown/heart over head
Inklings of light/inklings of love/inching forwards
Journeying/jumping off/jumping in
Kindness - random acts of
Love of it all/loudshirts
Massive social movements/make mine a rising sun
Never looking back/never regretting/nicer people
Ogling solutions/opening revolutionary doors/oceanic grandeur/oases of sanity/oases of species
Post-capitalism/permaculture/practising & preaching/profit warnings/pulling revolutionary rabbits from capitalist top hats
Quiet
Roast Jerusalem artichokes
Soup to lift a drooping spirit (pref. butternut squash)/seeds a-sprouting/sex despite everything/sea, (risen or not)
Traffic-free(dom)/treefulness/things sprouting/tilting for windmills
Unknown - heading into the
Voices raised in unison with a clarity of vision and an overflowing heart/vegan cake
Wind in our sails/work to be done
Xstasies right now
Yowsa yowsa yowsa/yelling sweet nothings to your sweet thing
Zoning in on love/zeremonies

An A-Z of Mourning
 
Adrift on a sea of doubt
Being blessed without brokenness or background noise
Crumbs of comfort hovered up by hangdogs/carbon offsetting/the coral, the coral
Drought/dourness/death/denial/disease
Everything (sometimes)
Functions dysfunctioning
Greenwash and go
Hoping against hope/hating everything/Hummer H2/head over heart
Inching backwards/inching doomwards
Jam o'traffic/jeremiads
Kerosene/kerosinners
Lying lawmakers/love deniers/lounge activists/luxury of pessimism/luxury of inaction
Monday morning/the madness, the sadness of it all/middle of the road
Nightmares by daylight
Offsetting/overhating
Parts per million/politicians' shenanigans/pontifications/propaganda
Quarterly profits
Rock star forests/racket
Species loss/speed of it all/slimily sophisticated propaganda
Turncoat environmentalists
Unctuous preacher-types
Violence of this system
Work (to be done)
Xenophobic maniacs
Young people's despair
Zzzz...the sleep of reason