S.O.S
Debris that’s caught up by the wind swells and rips and surges,
then falls to blanket ponds and fields and fill up roadside verges.
We trace its patterns in the woods, caught up along the trail.
We try to overlook it in the passing, but we fail.
It rolls down meadow pathways formerly pristine.
We trace its ugly progress through every canyon scene—
in a plastic bag’s graffiti plastered to a cavern wall.
Who will come to rescue our world before its fall?
Is any wiser culture listening for the call
from out there in the Universe, far from this spinning ball
that we are all trapped on, choking in the air
created by our progress, as we strip it bare?
The Sunday Whirl Wordle 618 prompts today are: call, trace, rescue, debris, wind, swell, rip, surge, pass, rolls, trail, woods
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
Unfortunately, I don’t see anyone coming to our rescue. We will have to do it ourselves. So well written Judy.
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Thanks, Sadje. I’m reading at a One Hundred Thousand Poets for Change reading (100TPC) on September 30 and this is one of the poems I’ll read. Look for an event near you on that date.
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Thanks Judy, I will. Congratulations my friend
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Add plastic drinking water bottles to that…. I get a tightness in my throat every time I see another person carrying those damn things. If they must carry water, a reusable bottle would work, it would be cheaper and not as destructive to our environment..There is no guarantee that the water in that bottle is any more pure than what you get in your faucet.
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=plastic+water+bottle+island+in+the+pacific
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If you take it in, you should (no — must!) take it out!
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I carry mine in my aluminum thermal glass and the water stays so cold as the ice doesn’t melt. I can refill it from my Huge refillable garrafone of drinking water I have delivered to the house.
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n CA, there’s a refundable surcharge for any plastic or aluminum bottles — Icarry mine in and out and then give it to a friend for her organization’s fund-raiser.
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Mine, of course, is rainwater and it is passed through so many filters and UV purifiers that it tests above any City water possible. I fuss at my grandsons every time they arrive with cokes and water in plastic bottles and tell them about my feelings… Sometimes they look at me like I am crazy. Somehow the word just does not get around, the school gives them water in those plastic things, Maybe the school is disposing of them properly, but a good learning experience would be not to use them at all, and tell them why.
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Re: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, If they can make it to the Moon and to Mars, why can’t they get a fleet and nets to round up all that plastic and dispose of it? Then stop putting more in?
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Some volunteer people are working at it, but I do not believe that there is any international organization working on it, and the jerks are throwing it overboard faster than they can take it out. This is a terrible killer of our sea creatures.
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We have the technology to make “plastic” out of 100% safe and biodegradable substances now, but corporations don’t want to cut into their profits. What is the use of governments if not to force the monsters to act in ways that save our Mother Earth (aka the only home humans have)?
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Absolutely. I am so sick of money buying everything!!!
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Did you see what’s happening at Burning Man? Flooding that has trapped everyone there. Also saw a video where a group barricaded the road in in protest of how the types of participants has shifted over the years. It used to be a counter-culture hippie artist event, but now the mega-wealthy are flying in with their private jets and setting up air-conditioned domes so they can can slum with the low-lives for a spell.
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Oh no. I always meant to go but never did… I’ll check it out.
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It was not long ago that we paid a deposit on any glass bottles we used, and believe me, we as kids collected them to get the money. I think that many street people still get a little help with their income by being our tumble bugs. They collect things in shopping carts and then leave the shopping carts lying around all over the place, far from the store they “borrowed them from”~!
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Very important statement. The winds also sweep plastic trash into the ocean, endangering fish and marine animals.
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Nice
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