Short Landfills Poems

Recycle
Everything
Cans
Yams
Crates
Letters
Everything

Because every time you recycle
Life starts another cycle
The flowers will spring up
The landfills will disappear
And Earth can remain beautiful...

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Inhale the earth
the world’s a dessert -
just give a burp

Tip: Use seran wrap only for food. Don’t use it as clothing ;P
Real tip: Use ceramic dishes instead of paper plates for meals to decrease landfills and pollution....

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Trailing off the desperate landfills of narrow fascination
Into my very own lesser known hallowed affirmation—

I wind mine through the wind in the air of my own air—
Should you happen to blow by; I’ll sail upon your prayer....

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"What are toxic time bombs?"
I wonder, with no aplomb,
Old garbage and refuse tips,
Legacy landfills, full of blip,
Damaging environmentally,
So much for sustainability,
All the overflow of society,
How do we correct such wrongs?
All those toxic time bombs...........

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All ski hills split on the same night.
Landfills beneath were a terrible sight.
Stench-like gasses were such a blight.
Large rats exploded out like dynamite.

Ridiculous ugly unseemly sight.
Gave school children an awful fright.
Screaming bloody murder big and bright.
As rats carried them off into the night....

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the crawling
trash-eating growlers
empty the jettison
of 7 days

strong limbs and gloved hands
heave and haul
tip-over the unwanted tangle
of unmindful chaos

the machine chews loudly

time to go
drag the empty black bins
back into their secluded caves

time to make eggs and bacon
to drop once more
rinds and shells
into plastic landfills


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On dogs phony antlers are tied
So unhappy Blossom will hide
     When she sees them coming
     She’d rather go slumming
At landfills she spends the Yuletide

And she’s not alone in her fear
Surrounded by many a peer
     Midst trash each dog cowers
     On ice in snow showers      
Refusing to dress like reindeer



*Written December 8, 2018
For Tania's "Funny Reindeer" contest...

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When the world runs out of tears
When every lie has been told
When all the bullets have been fired
And there’s no more homeless in the cold

When all the landfills have been emptied
When all the species again thrive
When all the starving have had supper
And in no more pain we writhe

When all our children have loving parents
When all racism has been hanged
When we finally pull together
We will reach our promised land...

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Plastic hearts, plastic smiles
plastic cars driving plastic miles
plastic forks, plastic knives
filling landfills, clogging lives
chemicals seeping
apathy deepening
while were sleeping
God is weeping
the smothered earth cries
under heavy, gray skies
time for every industrialized nation
to change for future generations
rid the world of a devastating cancer
when asked this question, 
find the right answer
paper or plastic?

For Paper or Plastic contest (Susan Burch)
Third place...

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Stop and think for a moment
about how it has creeped up.
Its a world of throw away.
Just trash you think; disposible.

Everything just junked
athough it has a use still.
Piles and piles of things
filling up the landfills.

And when it comes down to it
so are we disposible like trash.
The promotion promised gone
the excuse flimsy and week.

Because at the end of the day
we live in a disposible world!
With no or little value attached
to anything its all simply disposible!...

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