22 April 2013

On Earth Day 2013






Picked up trash
blowing in the wind
through my yard.

Recycled two cardboard
boxes of lecture notes
used twenty years ago.

Separated the garbage to
remove empty yogurt and
water containers, to fold
cereal boxes, to stack the
news, to mulch coffee
grounds and tea leaves. 

Remembered farm landfills 
burying cans and bottles, 
garden mounds mulching peelings
and steel drums reducing
paper to cinder and ash
(fertilizer and snow melt).

Worried about teaching notes:
Are they more flammable 
than refuse of daily chores?




Posted for Open Link Monday at Imaginary Garden with Real Toads and for NaPoWriMo  Day 22.

Copyright © 2013 S.L.Chast




4 comments:

  1. It takes a certain amount of commitment to think and behave 'green'. I applaud the efforts described here, and enjoyed the witticism of the final question.

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  2. Thank you for the prompt, Kerry.

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  3. I am enjoying reading your poetry, here and in Tuck Magazine. I saw Hal again, he did a reading in Newton last Friday. They, he and his wife are doing a workshop at Big Blue Marble May 1st. I am going to attend. I have written two poems about him and my father having Parkinson's, one is being published in Wordgather in June.

    Peace

    E Stelling
    http://elizabethakinstelling.com/

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  4. every little bit helps...i think we give very weak attention to the planet and the environment regularly...earth day even seemed rather anti climatic....we had one earth day activity last saturday...other than that it is a blip on the radar...hey great job on those notes too...smiles...

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