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Forever Plastics - #Poem #PoemADay
by Ronald Carson
We were the dream of convenience, the permanent press.
We were the yogurt cup you spooned empty at dawn,
the blister-pack popped for a single white pill,
the slick, sterile innards of the IV that saved you.
…
We are …

Forever Plastics
We were the dream of convenience, the permanent press. / We were the yogurt cup you spooned empty at dawn,

Chartreuse abundance
A radiant gradient
Vivacious spring grass.
#dailyhaikuprompt - spring grass
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Vernal equinox
Daylight balances darkness
For one night only.
#dailyhaikuprompt - equinox
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Freezing then melting
Our consistent condition
Is a state of slush.
#dailyhaikuprompt - melting
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First out of the gate
Opportunistic horse tail
Rampant on the field.
#dailyhaikuprompt - horse tail
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That's it for this year
We say each time there's late snow
Hoping it's the last.
#dailyhaikuprompt - late snow
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A tadpole grows legs
And transmutes tail into frog
Eventually.
#dailyhaikuprompt - tadpole
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What now, Ulysses?
We shall revere and rejoice
Our Leopold Bloom.
#dailyhaikuprompt - bloom
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A German rabbit
Came to visit this morning
Guten tag mein hare.
#dailyhaikuprompt - hare
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Shoreline at low tide
I take my mood from seeing
The wreckage revealed.
#dailyhaikuprompt - low tide
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If you don't like it
The spring sky offers a choice
Wait a few minutes.
#dailyhaikuprompt - spring sky
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It is too muddy
To plow any fields today
Ready and waiting.
#dailyhaikuprompt - plow
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Masses of frog eggs
Like biblical angels' eyes
Watching from the pond.
#dailyhaikuprompt - frog
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The little dog laughed
About the cow and the moon
Hey diddle diddle.
#dailyhaikuprompt - moon
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Fiddlehead unfurls
Stored green energy spirals
To soak up Spring sun.
#dailyhaikuprompt - fiddlehead
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My brother in Christ
All this talk of Nirvana
Is making me Cross.
#dailyhaikuprompt - nirvana
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Well, well, Miss Wintour
All I'll say is: you gotta
Lotta Nirvana.
#dailyhaikuprompt - nirvana
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These militant geese
Staking out the gravel path
As their nesting pad.
#dailyhaikuprompt - geese
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Each sunny morning
Another catkin stretches
And sheds its fur coat.
#dailyhaikuprompt - catkin
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Having been eclipsed
New moon that once waxed above
Now waning away.
#dailyhaikuprompt - new moon
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Light in the evening
After sun throughout the day
Brings Spring's happiness.
#dailyhaikuprompt - evening
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See the wild rose bloom
Delicate fragrance with thorns
Perfectly balanced.
#dailyhaikuprompt - wild rose
#haiku
#poem