I wrote my poem, The Plastic Bottle, for the d’Verse Haibun Monday, Earth Day, April 22nd 2024. Hosted by Frank J. Tassone.
The theme for Earth Day 2024 is Planet vs. Plastics and to mark that Earthday.org has called for a 60% global reduction in plastic production by 2040.
The Plastic Bottle
I watch it bob about. The discarded bottle undulates atop the translucent, gleaming city lake. The plastic bottle was empty. Its contents swallowed with a sandwich, perhaps. The transparency of its permanent indestructible skin shone in hideous mockery of the glassy water.
I wonder if there were any fish in the lake. A heron stands motionless at the edge. At least, that bird had hope.
The distorted windows of a city house reflect in the littered pond. Their windows shifting shape and swinging in the same gentle rhythm of the floating plastic bottle boat. Their rectangular frames undulate, changing shape in time with the bottle creating an urban backcloth to its litter dance.
A mallard duck flew,
Splash lands—disturbs the littered
artificial lake
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Lesley Scoble, April 22nd 2024
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Thank you, Frank J. Tassone, for your d’Verse Haibun Monday, Earth Day, April 22nd 2024 inspiring and important Earth Day prompt.
My thanks to Earthday.org for all the work that you do.
Mine feels such a small voice crying in our plastic polluted wilderness.
Lesley lives in the City of London Square Mile. An artist, actor and sculptor (her first ceramic sculpture won the V&A inspired by… Award). Scenic artist & book illustrator, playwright, (her musical play, Rapscallion performed in inner city schools and theatre school); TV dancer; Animator and illustrator for TV production. Set up Pinecone Studios Ltd and IIMSI Ltd drama and filmmaking workshops in London – producing award-winning films made by children.
LesleyScoble.com 
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