#bins - Hello Poetry

The bin-men and bin-women of Birmingham are on strike. Black bin bags barricade the streets, decaying vegetables rotting meat and putrid fish perfume the pavements: an odour brewed in the vat of spending cuts. In the park families picnic between discarded takeaway boxes: their children chase windblown paper towels round an assault course of half-empty cola bottles. Rats big as cats prowl the roads like tigers and eat car wires bringing the city to a stinking, gridlocked stop.

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Jun 5, 2025

Jun 5, 2025 at 12:53 PM UTC

gerry-sykes

Bin strike

The bin-men and bin-women of Birmingham are on strike. Black bin bags barricade the streets, decaying vegetables rotting meat and putrid fish perfume the pavements: an odour brewed in the vat of spending cuts. In the park families picnic between discarded takeaway boxes: their children chase windblown paper towels round an assault course of half-empty cola bottles. Rats big as cats prowl the roads like tigers and eat car wires bringing the city to a stinking, gridlocked stop.

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Love ties bows around garbage bins. Turns losses into wins. Brightens a sky, shortens a queue. Changes one into two.

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Feb 27, 2025

Feb 27, 2025 at 11:16 PM UTC

GaryH

Another poem about love

Love ties bows around garbage bins. Turns losses into wins. Brightens a sky, shortens a queue. Changes one into two.

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The earth is slowly dying To save it we have to try, We need a solution to Deal with polution But it's too big a problem We sigh, So if we all join together Everyone woman, child and man Recycle our tins In green wheelie bins And we'll save the world Yes we can.

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Mar 29, 2014

Mar 29, 2014 at 5:07 AM UTC

morrissey-smith

Yes We Can

The earth is slowly dying To save it we have to try, We need a solution to Deal with polution But it's too big a problem We sigh, So if we all join together Everyone woman, child and man Recycle our tins In green wheelie bins And we'll save the world Yes we can.

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