WHAT ARE WE DOING?
George Ellis QAVS.LRPS. 1948 (Luton)
What are we doing you and me?
Why are we killing the creatures of the sea?
Our oceans are dying because of our waste
Plastics of all kinds we have discarded in haste
Being swallowed by fish and mammals alike
It's a terrible thing we're doing to the creatures we like
Dying as their stomachs fill with indigestible plastic
We must act now as the situation's drastic
Stop we must, this terrible crime
We must stop it now before we run out of time
All the creatures of the seas deserve better than this
Our future generation's will hate us for our remiss
About this poem
A poem about plastic waste.
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Written on 2023
Submitted by george.ellis.lrps on February 19, 2024
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Scheme | AABB CCDD EEFF |
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Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 554 |
Words | 107 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
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