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Happy Earth Day!

 

     Dear litterbugs, please
     aim your trash at waste baskets,
     not thorny bushes!

 

Earth Day was pretty quiet this year. My husband and I did our usual trash pickup in a nearby park and later attended a small rally downtown. Trash pickup was part of that program, too.

 

I hope sometime soon we'll be celebrating Earth instead of trying to save it!

 

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Could You?

Milwaukee River from Lincoln Park Golf Course. After I posted this, I spotted the can in the bushes. 

 

Could You? 

 

Walked the golf course trail today.

Picked up trash along the way.

Golfers are a messy bunch.

Toss the bags from snacks they munch.

Slug their sodas, chug their beer,

fling the empties far and near.


Maybe someday, we will see

nothing but lush greenery.

But for now, we walk the land,

bag of garbage in each hand,

doing what we always do.

Someone ought to help.


Could you?

 

© 2025 JoAnn Early Macken

 

Rose Capelli has today's Poetry Friday Roundup at Imagine the Possibilities. Enjoy!

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