[Critique Group 1] Leonard's submission for June

[tuchyner5 at aol.com]

30 line poem

 Plastic Kills

 

Plastic, often made of oily smut,

fashion-able into many forms

and myriads of dispositions,

useful in multitudinous ways.

Beware! once made, it is here to stay.

 

Over our world, this plastic reigns,

as did they, from whence this offspring came --

flora and fauna pressed to slime,

squeezed into coal and diamonds as sublime,

shining like stars hidden from sight

millions and millions of years ago.

 

Today it befouls our Earth

in every open space and crevasse,

all the land and sky, oceans and streams,

eaten by beasts, fish and fowl,

polluting their hormones and organs,

while passing through, but rarely destroyed.

 

Yesterday I spied two golden beads --

Once vibrant pollinating bumble bees,

who died in my greenhouse, meant to spur life,

sandwiched between two clear plastic panes.

where they drained their scant life energy

in frantic spasms of hope to fly free.

 

Why do they remind me of me?




 
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