Plastic Plastic
Plastic plastic I love you
Drifting near and far
Plastic, plastic I love you
You are my caviar
Plastic, plastic you do look
So pretty floating past
Multicoloured, red, white, blue
Must eat you while you last
Plastic, plastic I feel weak
I feel so weak? But why?
I'm eating food that's passing by
Why aren't I stronger? Why?
Plastic, plastic, why you praying
Round me as I die
You offered me a food source
And now you do this? Why?
Don Matthews September 2019
Thankyou for your comments and likes.
Thankyou Do.RoThY. Yes, I am blessed with a creative mind. And thankyou for your comment which opened the gate for me to talk further on it.
They say there's a link between bipolar and creativity - Stephen Fry, Robin Williams, Virginia Woolf, Van Gogh etc. My 'problem', no, 'gift', is mania. I have to watch it carefully as it is a two-edged sword. Can create or destroy. I am grateful to WOL for allowing the positive creative side to be fostered.....
Really good, topical and provoking.
Do.Ro.ThY
Your comment interests me
"wish could read the poets mind"
A poet does not usually discuss his own work, but in this case I'd like to make an exception.
When I create I let my mind go free and see what it brings back, Sometimes comic, sometimes serious, sometimes shocking, many times surprises.. Rhyme can deliver any of these messages. You know what I mean.
I follow Jessica Masterson's "When your mind next wanders follow it round for a while"
'Plastic Plastic' fell out in 30 minutes. The fish made a perfect storyteller. Thought a new food had come it's way. Why were plastics praying at it's death? Was I unconsciously personifying them as us? Don't know. The mind is complex and mysterious.
Both poem and illustration are excellent. I do like Jason´s comment, "we really are as thick as pigshit aren´t we". We damage the environment with impunity, but would scream blue murder if someone came along and damaged our house..
Thanks for this Don
Keith
I was listening to a chap on BBC R4 the other day proudly boasting how many satellites are now up in low orbit around the Earth. Seems we’ve already started screwing up Space too with our junk.
For, "The most intelligent animal on earth," we really are as thick as pigshit aren't we, the amount of crap we've dumped all over our planet, not just in the sea, but the sea's bad enough. So when anyone takes the opportunity to point it out, I think that's great, thanks Don.
J. x
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Sat 21st Sep 2019 08:54
Plastic? Oh no. Banned!
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Mae Foreman
Mon 23rd Sep 2019 09:56
Now this is excellent! Kudos Don?
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