the comfort of rainbows
You can only spend so many hours in labs, study groups and classrooms - under relentless, fluorescent lighting - before you start feeling life withdrawal.
When I hit that stresshold, I need to rebalance myself.
I could go to the New Haven harbor - I find the ocean endlessly relaxing - or for a quick fix, I
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Categories:
packaging, humor, joy, rainbow, school,
Form: Free verse
Packaging
‘Taties and carrots and onions
All have their own natural skin
So why do most of the suppliers
Use plastic bags to pack them in,
Either the fragile brittle type
That bursts all over the floor
Or the stretchy greasy oily sort
That resist for evermore,
Evading each attempt until
They grudgingly finally split
Just before the onset of
A near
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Categories:
packaging, environment,
Form: Rhyme
Brexit, Brexit, Mon Amour
Shall I compare thee unto a crate of beer,
or, if not that, then unto washing powder?
Today I shun all things that are austere;
soft tones must yield to songs that are far louder.
May's shandy was for working men too sweet.
Newcastle Brown for them is much more dandy.
Reese-Mogg appealed but to the high elite.
It's Boris now
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Categories:
packaging, allusion, england, political,
Form: Sonnet
Categories:
packaging, business, corruption, environment, nonsense,
Form: Haiku
Garbage - Wasteful Packaging
Our packaging simply is wrong
To hold things in place, safe and strong
The plastic hugs tight
The cardboard you fight
To open the product takes long!
And when you are done you will see
The thing you had purchased, might be
As small as your thumb
While you face huge sum
Of valueless outer debris!
Though this is just one type of waste
We could
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Categories:
packaging, change, future, pollution,
Form: Limerick