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Great Lakes ?

Being EnlightenedBeing Enlightened Posts: 5,746
edited July 2004 in Poetry, Prose, Music & Art
ONCE,
Land-locked
Lovelies.

NOW,
Nowhere to swim,
Nowhere to dive. :(

Receding.
Bleeding,
Blood we can't see.
You're choking!
Not joking,
About how we just take,
And it's our mistakes,
That polluted these Great Lakes,
For goodness sakes!
For goodness sakes!





Sometimes I'm ashamed to be a part of the human race! :( I live by a Great Lake and it is polluted. That makes me very sad. So, what our parents and grandparents and their grandparents destroyed, we can only try to revive. And we must try to preserve what's left! So, please don't litter and try to reduce, reuse and recycle! :) We only have one planet and it gives us so much, let's try to think twice about how we treat it in return! Thanks! :)
Forget your perfect offering, there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen
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  • even flow?even flow? Posts: 8,066
    HOMES
    You've changed your place in this world!
  • suedesuede Posts: 247
    lol :D...HOMES...

    Huron
    Ontario
    Michigan
    Erie
    Superior

    yeah, I'm a good Michigan boy. I've grown up here with the Lakes, and although I've never been a water person, I feel terrible that the largest source of fresh water in the world is so polluted. I can vote for all the clean water acts in the world, but somehow it doesn't seem like it mean too much.
  • PJfaninmainePJfaninmaine Posts: 216
    Hey girlie! That was awesome! I absolutely love your idea, I totally agree. Makes people think twice when reading the advice in a poem. You captured it so beautifully. Thank you for getting peoples attention!
    You Rock girlfriend!
    If being sane is thinking there's something wrong with being different....I'd rather be completely fucking mental.
    (Angelina Jolie)
  • anOmisanOmis Posts: 223
    Originally posted by Being Enlightened
    ONCE,
    Land-locked
    Lovelies.

    NOW,
    Nowhere to swim,
    Nowhere to dive. :(

    Receding.
    Bleeding,
    Blood we can't see.
    You're choking!
    Not joking,
    About how we just take,
    And it's our mistakes,
    That polluted these Great Lakes,
    For goodness sakes!
    For goodness sakes!





    Sometimes I'm ashamed to be a part of the human race! :( I live by a Great Lake and it is polluted. That makes me very sad. So, what our parents and grandparents and their grandparents destroyed, we can only try to revive. And we must try to preserve what's left! So, please don't litter and try to reduce, reuse and recycle! :) We only have one planet and it gives us so much, let's try to think twice about how we treat it in return! Thanks! :)


    *S*

    i love meeting people w/universal souls..

    great writting ..bright thinking
    ~~dont mind yer make up, just make up yer mind~~

    ~~its better to be hated for who you are than be loved for who you are not~~

    F.ZAPPA
  • nailz100nailz100 Posts: 1,176
    So right you are B.E. Where as I don't live by the Great Lakes....I am a HUGE finatic about the ocean and its wildlife. The problem is with these huge industrial factories that are pumping all this "crap" into the atmosphere, and its not so much the factories today, but the ones from 100 years ago where they didn't have to monitor their emissions. A whole lot of limestone would fix the problem.
    Only with our eyes closed can we truly see
  • Being EnlightenedBeing Enlightened Posts: 5,746
    Thanks to all! :)

    Smell a flower
    Hug a tree
    Love a lake

    I think as long as we all try to make an effort to cut down on litter and pollution that it will help! And it's really not hard to put that candy wrapper in your pocket until you get home and can throw it out. It's not hard to toss a glass bottle into a blue box instead of chucking it in the trash, you know? The little things do amount to big things if we all pitch in. :)

    Makes me think of my favorite creatures: frogs. They are so dependent on a healthy and clean environment that if it turns to shit, they disappear.

    Hmmm, if we were frogs...
    Forget your perfect offering, there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen
  • nailz100nailz100 Posts: 1,176
    I would be a horny toad
    Only with our eyes closed can we truly see
  • Being EnlightenedBeing Enlightened Posts: 5,746
    Originally posted by nailz100
    I would be a horny toad

    :D

    LOL! Ribbit, ribbit! You so slick and slippery, Mr. Hoppity Hippity! :p
    Forget your perfect offering, there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen
  • PJfaninmainePJfaninmaine Posts: 216
    Reminds me of something,
    hummina hammina humina
    blaabba blabbe dee doobedo
    haha
    Eventually maybe we can get the blues brothers right!
    I miss you girlfriend!
    If being sane is thinking there's something wrong with being different....I'd rather be completely fucking mental.
    (Angelina Jolie)
  • even flow?even flow? Posts: 8,066
    So I look at the water
    From the beach, I can still stand on
    Skipping stones
    And playing explorer
    When did they deem this unsafe
    Don't fish still have to live in there
    I watch:
    Dogs swim
    Kids wade
    Wind surfers
    Boats sail
    I also see:
    Floating tires
    Dead gulls
    Motor boats
    Moss that stinks to high heaven
    One day my children might be able....
    To once again enjoy fresh land locked water
    You've changed your place in this world!
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