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Red Sahara sand covers the littering, it's -- smoothening the world.
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Dec 11, 2025
Dec 11, 2025 at 4:09 AM UTC
[ Red Sahara sand]
We post to find a better life A purchase with no payment A silver crystal shell of hope, Golden red letter sealant Our folded wings to lug the chain Shine glitter on the pavement... Our broken home to elevate The fragrant cheapest moments Delivery is paramount... For delight undeserved It’s worth it to perch it - To be rich in earth’s **** The bitterer, the better... Gut wrench hope through this twister Till we blether one last measure, To post into the litter.
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Aug 20, 2025
Aug 20, 2025 at 7:04 PM UTC
Post it
urination stench                 leaf decay and mans litter yet  ... spears of green life
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Apr 7, 2025
Apr 7, 2025 at 7:32 PM UTC
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But do you not realize how   Littered You are, with so much   Time–                              Still,   You choose to waste it Yet time will always lick Our wounds Given the time, for us to heal                We are            _Time's litter._
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Feb 4, 2025
Feb 4, 2025 at 2:52 AM UTC
Time's litter
It was windy today I did not walk alone on the beach or hear its many creaks and groans the watery moans of margin land where sea becomes sand, and tide becomes sky I sat in the car to keep myself dry and watch the squawking seabirds fly battling the wind for scraps thrown and trapped in a playful breeze which dropped and then continued to tease litter turned to crisp packet sails that danced and skipped in the stinging air with a grace and freedom I could not share all the same I’m glad I was there
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Mar 3, 2024
Mar 3, 2024 at 12:24 PM UTC
Crisp Packet Sails
I'm picking litter To clear out the litter in my head To clear out what was said With a robot arm I mean you no harm It's a mental need To sow new seed The needs of the planet Are called out by the Goddess Tanit Let's gather more litter And afray from being bitter
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Jan 29, 2021
Jan 29, 2021 at 6:16 AM UTC
Picking litter in my head
My destiny is becoming quicker I'll bound to be a middle aged litter picker I see the cans and mackie dee's wrap I see the hedges full of crap I walk around the block 'n shake my head I come across discarded plastic 'n shake with dread The old woman waddles with her ID badge I'm on a mission, watch out Madge I envisage buying the remote grabber You know the one that'll make me madder All I need next is a bag To pick up the sea of discarded *** I see an old guy bending over Perhaps he's checking that there is some clover Perhaps he's comes to get rid of blue No, no, no, no he's a middle aged picker too
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Jan 18, 2021
Jan 18, 2021 at 9:18 AM UTC
To be a middle aged litter picker
a short ways from town and our species ceases nature has the lay the landscape is not our charge relief i recover an empty beer bottle amongst some frosty sedge
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Nov 11, 2020
Nov 11, 2020 at 5:37 PM UTC
litter
concrete castles, brick battlements, chimneys billowing black smoke. sky, leaden and forever dull; this is the city of the guls. perched upon red brick walls and slated rooftops they unleash their cries of battle and dive, strafing as they fly; gutting wheelie-bins, squabbling over human trash and muck. this is treasure to the guls, their feathers diseased and their necks sporting plastic trophies. they ****** from grubby human hands and swallow all they can; their gullets hold no guilt or shame for the human filth called 'man.' the guls know their city: every cranny and every nook. they have always ruled from their royal perches: ruthless, ***** and proud. they look upon human men with beady eyes as they leave humble offerings, and they cackle chorusing with their high-pitched squawks. for humans are mere pests among those mighty guls.
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Mar 27, 2020
Mar 27, 2020 at 6:54 AM UTC
city of the guls
Momma always reminded me to “Keep the forest clean” when we went up to our cabin. “Keep the streets clean” when we went into the city. “Find the source of the problem,” she said. “find the litter. Once you’ve found it, clean it up and the world will be a little prettier.” Eventually, even though I tried hard, the beaches were still too ***** for momma. She took her own instruction and found the source of the problem. She found the litter. Once she’d found that, she cleaned it up and the world was prietter again.
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Nov 4, 2019
Nov 4, 2019 at 11:06 PM UTC
Clean Beaches
A parent in a supermarket aisle slaps her toddler hard and the child screams in pain and shock. A teenager walking along a busy street drops the wrapper of his chocolate-bar on the footpath. A woman in a cinema-theatre in the middle of the movie calls on her mobile-phone her son to tell him about the movie, disturbing the other movie-watchers. A man walking his dog along a street takes his dog off the leash and the dog barks aggressively and lunges at frightened pedestrians.
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Jul 21, 2019
Jul 21, 2019 at 5:27 AM UTC
Misguided
You know you are wrong when you bed me in our own litter and The Feaster raises its head to feed our relations with its attention We persist and you're having none of my boring objections This bed has become a field of mammal ply and spell craft We sign out glyphs in energies and positionings In The Feasters eyes we have meaning we are positive we glow for it Feathers from air we tap out with a shared vocal hark ..in crash the mind ; plan flown on an excercise of oblivion Criminal tide rising to feel upon the doggy moon When The Love has only known The Night Time with little illumination the revealed is a frightful thing ; a Medicine and a Leviathan
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Mar 23, 2019
Mar 23, 2019 at 7:57 PM UTC
Tax Medicine / Pax Leviathan
I sat outside today eating Sushi and miso soup in the sun Some squirrels came by And stared at me hopefully I put a bit of miso soup in the lid And set it out for them But they weren't interested Then a gust of cold wind blew the lid over And the soup was spilled One of the squirrels went for the crumbs In an old potato chip bag instead
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Feb 21, 2019
Feb 21, 2019 at 3:04 PM UTC
Soup for Squirrels
When I was but a child To litter seemed a scandelous crime As we were taking a walk one day I vowed That I’d bring My plastic grabby tool out And clean it all up ... We got home Milk and cookies Was all it to took For me to forget ... A couple of years later I saw a piece of plastic in our yard I picked it up Brought it home And disposed of it Feeling great about myself ... The year after my brother happened to have a park cleanup At his school I had time So I thought, Why not? I came along Used funky tools Counted each piece I picked up Feeling good about myself Then I went home To eat some cookies ... The next time I saw a piece of trash, I acknowledged there wasn’t anything much I would do about it ... After that I stopped noticing all together They instill the knowledge in kids That littering is bad But just words Are words Until we put in a team effort Rather than acknowledging others will do it for us Or that it’s too hopeless Nothing will ever get done
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Sep 16, 2018
Sep 16, 2018 at 1:23 PM UTC
Litter
✍️✍️✍️  नमन नागर ✍️✍️✍️                जब तक था दुनिया का मतलब l                            यूज किया  मुझे ll             होते ही मतलब पूरा  बोले l                 जा छोड़ दिया  तुझे ll
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Jul 25, 2018
Jul 25, 2018 at 6:48 AM UTC
Naman nagar ka istamal
Look out in the field when you drive by Look to the ditch that your cruising beside Look to the grass and you will see Look upon that constellation of trash That tells the story of how we treat This street This neighborhood This town This county This state This country This continent This place We call home
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Jun 18, 2018
Jun 18, 2018 at 11:05 AM UTC
Constellations of the Weeds
Impulse buys and crap meat pies, crispy snacks and cans Fast food bags, discarded **** all chucked from sweaty hands Into bushes, roadside drops or tossed from speeding cars Consume and lob, “it’s not my prob” junk stuffed from fist to gob   Foods that **** eat our streets, Mother nature’s ****** Disrespectful, scant regard, her beauty hid amidst   A correlation, may I address... littering to health Or on a controversial note, worst areas lack in wealth   Discarded dreams, stretched at the seams Life’s stitching’s come undone  Scratch paper hopers, ciggy smokers Our streets are overrun   Deadly habits, toxic foods, mainly line our streets Left for volunteers to pick, a never-ending feat   Healthy trash? Avocado smash? Imagine streets adorn   Kale and spinach everywhere We wade through piles of corn   “There’s ****** carrots are everywhere, why don’t they use the bin” “That courgette’s dropped right next to it, why not just put it in?”   Coastal towns with plastic seas, wildlife getting sick All tangled, trapped in Ghost nets like a phantom sailors’ trick   Above the ground to the depths below the litter never ends Poor old Mother Earth, being driven round the bend   So how do we control this?  Education is the answer? Let’s all work to turn it round for Generation Alpha   The new emerging vibrant minds, absorbing like a sponge The lessons passed on down to them, by loving Dads & Mums   A shift in thinking is afoot, I feel it in my bones Let’s join as one community, it starts within our homes.
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Jun 13, 2018
Jun 13, 2018 at 1:52 PM UTC
Litter- A Perplexed Pickers Poem
Impulse buys and crap meat pies, crispy snacks and cans Fast food bags, discarded **** all chucked from sweaty hands Into bushes, roadside drops or tossed from speeding cars Consume and lob, “it’s not my prob” junk stuffed from fist to gob   Foods that **** eat our streets, Mother nature’s ****** Disrespectful, scant regard, her beauty hid amidst   A correlation, may I address... littering to health Or on a controversial note, worst areas lack in wealth   Discarded dreams, stretched at the seams Life’s stitching’s come undone  Scratch paper hopers, ciggy smokers Our streets are overrun   Deadly habits, toxic foods, mainly line our streets Left for volunteers to pick, a never-ending feat   Healthy trash? Avocado smash? Imagine streets adorn   Kale and spinach everywhere We wade through piles of corn   “There’s ****** carrots are everywhere, why don’t they use the bin” “That courgette’s dropped right next to it, why not just put it in?”   Coastal towns with plastic seas, wildlife getting sick All tangled, trapped in Ghost nets like a phantom sailors’ trick   Above the ground to the depths below the litter never ends Poor old Mother Earth, being driven round the bend   So how do we control this?  Education is the answer? Let’s all work to turn it round for Generation Alpha   The new emerging vibrant minds, absorbing like a sponge The lessons passed on down to them, by loving Dads & Mums   A shift in thinking is afoot, I feel it in my bones Let’s join as one community, it starts within our homes.
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Don't cry for me I am not worth your tears Do not mourn me I am not worth your sadness Don't comfort me I am not worth your time I am not worth your affection I am not worth your care I am not worth your worry I am not worth your efforts I am worth little more than the dirt on your shoes Which you cast away in disgust I am worth less than the trash you throw away Which you hurry to get rid of So it will not ***** your hands any longer Pay me no mind And I will try to give you no trouble But I am like litter Out of control With only few willing to clean me up I seem so inconsequential And at times I am But litter only spreads filth
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May 12, 2018
May 12, 2018 at 6:34 PM UTC
Worthless
we cannot condone those who trash a writing zone they waltz in and litter the abode as if it's theirs alone well excuse us for not liking the bad state of our cone before they turned up everything had a tidiness in tone *the ******* has no sense* of where it should hang out it just delights in strewing its self liberally about we're all wishing that it'll be on the way out cause none of us are fussed at its piling tout our environment is under a waste cloud may we soon see a lifting of its grotty shroud
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Oct 17, 2017
Oct 17, 2017 at 7:27 AM UTC
Grotty Shroud
Hey everyone from New York to California Please, no more littering our land and seas No more throwing out trash from your vehicles or depositing your leftovers under trees Help keep America beautiful Please!
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Oct 15, 2017
Oct 15, 2017 at 6:00 PM UTC
Keep America Beautiful, Please!
When days are drowning And wind is charming The laughing Sun, churns And the skin spots are alarming Bare the natures wrath As we are the ones responsible Dumping litter here and there Forgot about disposal Reasoning our irrelevant actions And scrambling with our rights Driving in polished cars While some adhere to plights Campaigners walk on streets To pick up others waste People just pass by to greet Hungering to delicacy taste Activists, I am not, No! But we all know that it's wrong To litter around is no show Coz clearing takes too long It's commonsense, alright Please use your educated brains Pollution is at a rising height Clogging everywhere when it rains Mother nature gets mad at some point And we see in news, the flooding and rain About anywhere in the world we are I think everyone has a working brain! ©sim
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Aug 31, 2017
Aug 31, 2017 at 12:04 PM UTC
Alert - Rising Plight
I found seashells and driftwood, Cans and bottles and much more Like diapers and picnic stuff While walking along the shore. I found cigarette butts and bags And those horrendous soda holders That catch on sea life and twist them In their middle or at their shoulder. I saw palm trees and jacaranda Waving in the balmy breeze And broken plastic lawn chairs Leaning against the lovely trees. I found six-packer carriers sitting With all the beer bottles inside. I saw pieces of bicycles and big batteries And I swear I almost sat and cried. But I had too much to do right then Gathering up all that random junk. I carried them to a ******* bin And I threw it all in, kerthunk! I wondered for the hundredth time The parents these creeps had That let them grow so ill behaved, And so embarrassingly bad. What kind of selfish brat can come And look out on this lovely scene And throw their ******* all around? How can they be so mean? It makes me hope for recompense; That what goes around come again And we can stash these human pigs Into an appropriate kind of pen.
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Jun 19, 2016
Jun 19, 2016 at 6:45 PM UTC
BEACH THRENODY