Garbage
a box, a
once-full aspirin bottle, a
candy bar wrapper, that
tube from the paper towels, that
discarded past-due notice, a
torn up note you never delivered
.
these are our lives
and while we see what we do
who we talk to
tasks we complete
the people we call friends
or the emotions we have
as the definitions
of what our lives are
we can also check the garbage
.
look in there and
you’ll see pieces of your day
evidence of a meal
bad news being ignored
the junk mail that
didn’t used to be junk
that once-cherished busted
plate you dropped on the tile
.
lying in pieces
buried in worthless
debris are small
and maybe meaningless
pieces of you life
tossed in the garbage
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Posted on December 8, 2015, in Poetry and tagged DoubleU, Garbage, John White, Poetry. Bookmark the permalink. 47 Comments.
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This piece is awesome and so indicative of human existence and our behaviors. Some subconscious while others are conscious acts though we soon forget, while moving onto the next moment of our lives…to what we believe we can’t live without. Until it ends up in our garbage.
Thanks for this deep and well-timed poetic expression ☆. Cheers 🙂
Thank you! 🙂 It’s amazing how lives are lived moving from one must-have, must-do, must-see to those same things being discarded.
Excellent. Provocative. Pithy. Need I say more.
Thanks, Peter! 🙂 Say no more. You’re too kind. 🙂
A true picture!
Thank you! 🙂
Some days I think I find my whole life in the trash can. Never mind just the snippets.
Amen
Thank you, Ramsey! 🙂 Hopefully it’s not because someone else threw it out. 😉
Ironic, wouldn’t you say? Garbage pick-up comes here every Tuesday morning. But I should have a few more bits and pieces ready for the next time. Good, John, very good.
Thank you! 🙂 Ironic, no doubt. What we throw away says almost as much about us as what we keep or value. One man’s trash may be another man’s treasure but the opposite has to also be true since one man’s treasure is another man’s trash.
that’s the thing about perspectives, we all have different ones. This is refreshing. A little morose, but refreshing, as we don’t stop to look at the things in our lives that we take for granted or the pieces that we deliberately discard.
Thank you! 🙂 Needing more or needing less is a question that can be hard to answer with a first-world perspective and we all deal with that. And, I completely agree that we take so much for granted.
It’s funny, my husband is an Archeology student and he often talks about that the majority of what Archeologists dig up is ancient trash. And it’s from what these cultures threw away we can learn about how they lived and who they were.
Thank you, Claire! 🙂 Archaeology would be fascinating especially since much of what is found buried is garbage. Our landfills will one day tell archaeologists a lot about our society.
This is wonderfully written John.! 🙂
Kim
Thank you, Kim! 🙂 You’re too kind.
Interesting thought to review the end of the day or even the end of the week by what you have discarded.
Thank you! 🙂 Small and large pieces of life are there – discarded. You’re right.
Wonderfully crafted poem! Simple & powerful.
Thank you! 🙂 You’re too kind.
It’s like we try hard to find ourselves everywhere why not look at your own trash first lol. This is a very nice poem 🙂
Thank you, Joana! 🙂 It’s right there hovering at the top of the heap. 😉 It’s great to meet you!
nice to meet you too!
🙂
Nice. A survey of one’s life right in front of them. Simple things we take for granted often have a lot of meaning.
Thank you, Doug! 🙂 Something has to be thrown out, I guess, but it still amounts to parts and pieces of our lives.
Reblogged this on All Technology Guide.
Thank you for the reblog! It’s great to meet you!
Very well conveyed
Thank you! 🙂
This piece took my breath away – so powerful, I’ll surely be thinking about it throughout the day.
Thank you, Nancy! 🙂 You’re too kind. It’s great to meet you!
This piece remind me of how much we used to take life for granted. Great piece John. Keep it up! 🙂
Thank you, Nur! 🙂 It can be very easy to take the little things and even life itself for granted.
Loved it. It brought a smile to my face because it hit home.
Thank you so much! 🙂 It’s great to meet you!
Everything is taken for granted and thrown away, discarded, till it’s too late. Poignant
Thank you! 🙂 It can be far too easy to take the little things for granted.
Loved it! In a very light way it makes me re-consider how to view life; each day matters. Reminds me of a lot of quotes and it’s nice to see it in poetry form.
Thank you! 🙂 Every day and ever moment. It’s great to meet you!
Like this…lots!
Thank you! 🙂
Love this, brilliant
Thank you so much! 🙂 It’s great to meet you!
Likewise!
🙂