“ A whale just died after consuming
more than 80 plastic bags. A whale!”
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"Beat Plastic Pollution!"
I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth.
Pete Townshend
Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/topics/plastic
Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/topics/plastic
I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth.
Pete Townshend
Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/topics/plastic
Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/topics/plastic
“I'm not out there suggesting that we should ban every plastic product. But there are some whose environmental costs exceed their utility, and the [plastic] bag is one of them.”
― Plastic: A Toxic Love Story
“So many things seemed to come in plastic bags now that it was difficult
to keep track of them. The main thing was not to throw it away
carelessly, better still to put it away in a safe place, because there
was a note printed on it which read 'To avoid danger of suffocation keep
this wrapper away from babies and children'."
― Quartet in Autumn
― Quartet in Autumn
Midweek Motif ~ Plastic Bags
Everything passes, said the Buddha,
and I saw it myself on the river–
I was walking in a government warehouse
Where the daylight never goes.
I saw fifteen million plastic bags
Hanging in a thousand rows.
Five million bags were six feet long
Five million bags were five foot five
Five million were stamped with Mickey Mouse
And they came in a smaller size.
Were they for guns or uniforms
Or a kinky kind of party game?
. . . .
(Read the rest HERE.)
100 other goldfish twisty-tied
up and dreading a hot sunrise.
You’re in mourning together
for the old 20+ gallon tank.
For the familiarity of the green leaf
that released you from an orange egg sack.
How’d you find yourself
in one of these again?
. . . . (Read the rest HERE.)
Please share your new poem
using Mr. Linky below and visit others in the spirit of the community— (Next
week Sumana’s Midweek Motif will be ~ Bridge. )
So. I still use plastic bags quite often, mostly for food and for keeping books dry next to my water bottle. My friends use plastic bags to pick up what their dogs leave outside. What would life be like without plastic bags? I saw one dance in the film "American Beauty," I imagined them as separate beings in "Flights" by :
“Now I see them from the window of the bus, these airborne anemones, whole packs of them, roaming the desert. Individual specimens cling on tight to brittle little desert plants, fluttering noisily--perhaps this is the way they communicate. . . ."
Your Challenge: Consider the immanent death of the plastic bag and imagine it into a new poem. Maybe you are writing an ELEGY, maybe an ODE.
I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth.
Pete Townshend
Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/topics/plastic
Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/topics/plastic
By Richard Schiffman
Everything passes, said the Buddha,
and I saw it myself on the river–
tennis balls and condoms,
waterlogs and dead dogs,
styrofoam battleships,
the mastless schooner of a rubber sandal,
subaqueous plastic bags
rippling their ghoulish curtains,
a belly down, drowned waterfowl
legs splayed, plucked clean by the waves.
But what the Buddha didn’t say
is that everything returns
a few hours later, when the current flips direction,
shuttling eternally in the limbo of the tides.
. . . .
waterlogs and dead dogs,
styrofoam battleships,
the mastless schooner of a rubber sandal,
subaqueous plastic bags
rippling their ghoulish curtains,
a belly down, drowned waterfowl
legs splayed, plucked clean by the waves.
But what the Buddha didn’t say
is that everything returns
a few hours later, when the current flips direction,
shuttling eternally in the limbo of the tides.
. . . .
(Read the rest HERE.)
Fifteen Million Plastic Bags
Adrian Mitchell
Where the daylight never goes.
I saw fifteen million plastic bags
Hanging in a thousand rows.
Five million bags were six feet long
Five million bags were five foot five
Five million were stamped with Mickey Mouse
And they came in a smaller size.
Were they for guns or uniforms
Or a kinky kind of party game?
. . . .
(Read the rest HERE.)
Beneath Carnival Lights
Ben Kingsley
You can’t stop morning
from melting plastic bags.
from melting plastic bags.
100 other goldfish twisty-tied
up and dreading a hot sunrise.
You’re in mourning together
for the old 20+ gallon tank.
For the familiarity of the green leaf
that released you from an orange egg sack.
How’d you find yourself
in one of these again?
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