plastic

plastic

Poem by: christinamcphee

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a poem on environmental awareness

Plastic

There is an ocean, drowning, dying

Im caught in it, pulling out the refuse

with all the futility of bailing water off the Titanic

with the child’s plastic bucket I used to play with

Not knowing it would become

the disaster we are trying to escape.

Submitted: April 09, 2019

© Copyright 2023 christinamcphee. All rights reserved.

Non-Fiction environment poetry pollution recycling climate-change

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