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Everything has a destination.
Concoctions meander
from sink
to sewer, septic bed,
groundwater seeping,
rivers flowing,
ocean bound.
.
Accidental spills,
trucks, trains,
ships at sea–
debris travels far,
spins in silver spray,
Flotsam lands
on remote beaches.
.
Plastic bags fly,
flap in treetops,
huddle in long grasses,
meander,
out to sea.
.
Weather-worn,
micro-bits
hang suspended
in placid ocean pools,
Currents swirl
soups of plastic.
.
Molten sand,
blown to glass,
filled with wine,
tossed from cruise liners,
washed up on beaches
or buried ocean deep.
.
We all forget,
Life in a human world,
an ethereal fantasy,
plastic, glass, metal, chemicals
used and discarded,
to disappear,
But,
Everything has a destination.
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My thoughts emerged as I contemplated the photo prompt for Jane Dougherty Poetry Challenge #31: Message in a Bottle. The prompt photo shows a bottle with a message scroll inside, lying on an ocean shore. Optional prompt words are: Ethereal, Placid, Meander, Forget, Silver.
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An important message, and you put it across beautifully 🙂
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Thank you Jane.
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What an eye-opening visual, Janice. I saw a documentary over a year ago describing such debris on the coast of British Columbia from the tsunami in Japan. It was shocking.
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Yes the visual is eye opening. I can well imagine that tsunamis reveal our ocean trash and send it even further inland as well.
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We are like the infant learning that just because we cannot see it, does not mean it is not there.
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I like your analogy 🙂
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An important message–well done!
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Thanks Merril
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ouf!
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A significant poem Janice and certainly strengthens this image and any other similar depiction of human ignorance
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Thank you Denis. That shoreline is a disturbing sight.
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Its not much below the post Japanese Tsunami coastlines
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A powerful poem, Janice highlighting the scourge of waste and flotsam in our oceans, on our beaches. Well done. 😀
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Thank you Annika.
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Wonderful awareness post – Should be used to interrupt all regularly scheduled programs.
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you have amazing pearls of words that are jeweled together….
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Thanks you 🙂
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Excellent! (K)
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Glad you enjoyed it:)
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