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People Against Plastic Poem

By Josie Whitehead

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PEOPLE AGAINST PLASTIC

By Josie Whitehead

LESSON PLANS etc:  HERE
People Against Plastic

Those plastic straws and carrier bags,
     Used once and thrown away,
And other plastic throw-aways 
       Don’t go but quietly stay.

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These and all other plastic things
       Pollute our land and sea,

And yet with thought this can be stopped,
      And yes, by you and me.

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The creatures of our natural world
       Don’t want our human waste.
Their world, that’s shared with all of us,
       Has sadly been defaced.

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We lived our lives in years gone by
     Without this dreadful scourge
And only, in quite recent times,
      We’ve seen this mess emerge.

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It’s like a nightmare, but much worse,
      From which  we cannot wake,
And have we left it far too long
      To put right our mistake?

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Before more of our world is killed,
      And birds and beasts are dead,
Reject plastic in all its forms.
     Use natural stuff instead.

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We'll fight the war on plastic things,
      And, yes, for sure it’s war,
For if we don’t, the time will come
     When our world will  be no more.

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