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Earthday/Gulf of Mexico

Celebrate!! Oil for all!! Bring a cup Have your fill!! Black gold for all!! Pelicans are oil coated, Ready to fry! Black moon sand is Free for all!! The oil is still Lingering on Alaska's shore Twenty-one years later Clean up of the Exxon-Valdez spill, still not clean!! Dear politicians please help!!! The oil still flows like black death!

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John Trusty

Date: 5/10/2010 5:47:00 PM

Well said, done Doris. The second shoe to drop on the Gulf will be if they don't contain/clean this mess before hurricane season, I shudder to think of the additional havoc it will release if they get one in the Gulf. Having potable drinking water for the entire coast comes immediately to mind. JT

James Marshall Goff

Date: 5/8/2010 6:45:00 PM

the eagle on the dollar bill rules western civilization...this will change, but not in our lifetime...jimbo

Abe Lopez

Date: 5/7/2010 6:19:00 PM

Thank you for writing on this subject .... it is a very serious issue!!!

Charles Henderson

Date: 5/7/2010 12:17:00 AM

Yes, and above this, it's another excuse for the other oil companies to go up. Isn't that weird. One messes up and the the rest get rich. Funny world this US of A. Good write. Thank you for recent comments on my poetry Charles

David Byrne

Date: 5/6/2010 5:18:00 PM

very good!

Sara Kendrick

Date: 5/6/2010 5:41:00 AM

Great write that you have penned...Have they got the thing in place that is suspose to slow it down...Mom

Donald Waugh

Date: 5/5/2010 5:15:00 PM

they need to act faster. Thank you for your comment

Linda-Marie Sweetheart

Date: 5/5/2010 4:27:00 PM

The cry of so many Doris but who is fixing anything right now? feel very bad for the wildlife and the environment too.. a good concise poem my friend.. luv.. Linda-Marie

Jan Harvey

Date: 5/5/2010 6:42:00 AM

I can relate, and hope that today there will have a more successful response to this unfortunate happening. Also your words are echoed! Jan

Gert W. Knop

Date: 5/5/2010 6:38:00 AM

Oh, yes, a great disaster!!! Excellent poem, Doris! Help is NEEDED!!! Poor animals, poor fishermen, poor all who depend on the sea!!!...Thank you for your comments...Gert

Danny Nunn

Date: 5/5/2010 6:30:00 AM

When the greed for oil takes over, they don't care??? good write...thanks on Offender..I agree that they are all crooks....like telling a coyote not to eat sheep...they don't understand that...thanks Danny

Poet Destroyer A

Date: 5/5/2010 6:15:00 AM

this is a very well written poem Carolyn, i so hear you out, we need help not only on the clean up, but also on the spreading the word, enjoyed,..p..d

Derrick Burton

Date: 5/5/2010 6:04:00 AM

Lokks like there gonna be alot of volunteering, or a massive clean up the size of a small down. I hope they get it all cleaned up though. Enjoy your day.:)

Carolyn Devonshire

Date: 5/5/2010 5:40:00 AM

Clever and powerful message, Doris. It may be decades before the Gulf of Mexico is the pristine area it was before the oil spill. We appear to have learned little from the Exxon-Valdez incident. Now we just sit and wait for the oil to approach the shoreline. Excellent poem! Love, Carolyn