Roadside Signs
PUBLISHED wFOR OPENLINK NIGHT FOR
dVERSEPOETS THIS TUESDAY IN MAY
dVERSEPOETS THIS TUESDAY IN MAY
Nine hundred miles of open road
Kites flying in the air, sign posts
Signs of something important . . .
Another make-shift memorial marking a highway death?
Some type of new American protest?
Like billboards advertising the latest fashions
Hanging like Easter eggs on high
Marking each spot
White, blue, green, yellow and
Large opaque billowing flags
Torn and shredded
Signs of our human times
Flapping in the winds
Full of air, ready for take off
But held tightly against the trees
Do you really see these roadside signs?
These open bladders of misused waste
Blossoming like the spring of a new season
Our ordinary everyday plastic bags
Dedicated to — for the joy of childhood days and roadsides free of plastic bags
Shadowleaves on Lake Ann 
Claudia ~ thank you for your comments ~ glad you enjoyed it! ~ such a critical topic & a very visible way ~ we see them everyday! Thanks
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Hanging like Easter eggs on high…
very visual 🙂 I loved the sarcastically humorous take!!
Hugs xoxo
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I never understand why people can't just keep their trash in the car until they can stop and throw it away. Especially plastic bags… reminds me of when I went to Japan, everything is clean and yet there are no trash cans anywhere. People will hold their trash all the way until home if necessary to throw it away.
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interesting subject, interesting poem. Although I never actually saw the movie The Graduate, I am reminded of the line “I want to say one word to you: Plastics.” And that's almost what you're doing here. If plastics were going to be the next big thing 50 yrs ago, we can now see the result of all that, and often it is not a pretty sight. Plastics, like cockroaches, will be around long after we are all gone.
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Sigh, so true, Joanie. They seem alive in the breeze and are proliferating like bunnies.
Speaking of which, I once saw a blowing, billowing bag chase a squirrel up a tree. True!!
Great job!! ~ j
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I see them everywhere; have seen them for longer than I wish. They are a blight as many of those intentionally erected. They are testaments to the complacency of human nature.
Nicely done, your composition well crafted. I hope its message will not fall deaf to so many.
Cheers!
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This brings me back to the family drives and how mesmerized I was by billboard signs, directions, and the like. I like much the line : “open bladders of misused waste” …that's exactly what they are. This is a well crafted, meaningful piece. Brava!- Jacquie
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your poem could be the start of a green campaign for those cities and states that still permit their use. I support the stores that provide discounts to customers who bring in reusable bags. thanks for crafting and posting this.
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oh we have people throwing them away as well and they get blown across the landscape…a shame…they tried to get rid of them in the 80's with jute instead of plastic…but didn't quite work..
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