two tire swings
strange glass bong
a Mexican Pepsi can
recycled,
styrofoam saved from ocean gyre
sludge-filled baby bottle
a gnome
re-gardened.
(My 3 teen boys participated in an annual community cleanup day, with the Boy Scout troop and the rest of the town. This swing-set was still here, 4 years after our first cleanup day! A bit of found poetry and found humanity.)
This is a flash non-fiction prose poem, written in exactly 160 characters, spaces included. To meet the challenge hosted by Monkey Man, post on Sunday and let him know HERE
http://slo.surfrider.org/?p=231
ReplyDeletenice. i have yet to even think about a 160...
ReplyDeletethat is awesome that they did that....so much junk out there...but you redeemed it a bit with your words...smiles.
It's always heartbreaking how things just get tossed out anywhere and everywhere. It's an awesome thing to do the community clean-up, but I always wish we didn't have to have them.
ReplyDeleteGood for your boys for taking part in the clean up. It's awful how careless people are with rubbish,
ReplyDeleteAt least there was one place on the planet that got a bit cleaner, there may yet be hope.
ReplyDeleteYou recycled the lot in your poem anyway - well done! Would be nice if people (myself included) would think before making the purchase, about what they're going to do with the swing-sets, etc, when they no longer want them...
ReplyDeleteThat's a lot of junk. Congrats to your boys for doing their part. Thanks for being a part of the Sunday 160.
ReplyDeleteThese type of clean up day --should be organise in every community....really good work.
ReplyDeleteBest wishes.
Hemant
Haven't these people heard of the dump? How awful that they just dump trash anywhere, and how nice that you and the Boy Scouts cleaned up a bit of it.
ReplyDeleteA sludge filled baby bottle leaves such a strong impression.
ReplyDeleteThis is so beautifully expressed. I live a block from the Truckee river and sadly, all too often we find similar things when we take the dogs along the river walk...and we have community clean ups, too. Why do people have to litter?
ReplyDeleteLovely poem & a worthy project and now a Gaia retreat ---- send your three amigos (sons) over to my house, I have lots of projects.
ReplyDeleteCheers,
Joanny
thank you for the lovely comment-- lol - I have been called quirky,imaginative, romantic, sensual,passionate and eccentric , but yours is a new one, " funny twisted side." I love it -my favorite...Sweet.
Recycling waste..
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