The Apples in My Orchard

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Poetry Friday: Oceans of Trash

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A Bottle Cap

Plastic Bags

Straws

A Cup with Iced Coffee

Air Fillers for Packing Boxes

Forks, Knives, Spoons, Plates

Take out containers

Saran Wrap

All Plastic.

Discarded, Floating, Moving with the tide out to Sea and back again to distant shores

A river of trash forming a plastic river in the wider ocean

Moving, Growing, Expanding, Killing…..

Our turtles,

Our fish,

Our Dolphins,

Us.

Debris from over consumption

Filling the  world’s watery bowl with the scraps of our existence

We’ve done this.

Us.

Humans.

We must stop.

Is it already too late?

Ask yourself.

 

7 responses to “Poetry Friday: Oceans of Trash”

  1. Tabatha Avatar
    Tabatha

    A river of trash … awful to picture, isn’t it? Thanks for talking about this important subject.

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  2. carwilc Avatar
    carwilc

    Phew! Some sad truth here. My sixth graders are going to love/hate this poem. I will look forward to sharing it with them next week.

    As for your question about what’s acceptable to post- Poetry Friday is for all things poetry- you can post anything you want, poems you have written, poems other people have written, book reviews, other poetry resources, e.g. games related to poetry, etc.

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    1. theapplesinmyorchard Avatar
      theapplesinmyorchard

      Thanks! I am glad you will share it with students. Admittedly, I do not thing it is a great piece of writing but if students can learn from it, by all means share! I used to run a 3rd grade writer’s circle with students that ran all year, for six years in a row! I miss having students with whom to share pieces of writing – we often did so in our poetry unit, as I wrote right along with them. Thanks, for the information, too!

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  3. lindabaie Avatar
    lindabaie

    It’s terrible to imagine that there is so much in our “world’s watery bowl”.

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    1. theapplesinmyorchard Avatar
      theapplesinmyorchard

      Thanks! I like that line too but not the picture it conjures up!

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  4. maryleehahn Avatar
    maryleehahn

    Welcome to Poetry Friday! I see Carol answered your question about the “rules” of Poetry Friday (none). There is more information in the links in this post:
    http://readingyear.blogspot.com/2018/11/poetry-friday-call-for-roundup-hosts.html

    and you can always find the blog that’s hosting the roundup here:
    http://kidlitosphere.org/poetry-friday/

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    1. theapplesinmyorchard Avatar
      theapplesinmyorchard

      Thanks so much!

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