Dumping Our Sumps

My Belmont Page Creative Writing Group is held on Thursday’s, and our ‘Thought Prompter’ sentence for this week is ‘Time to put the garbage out.’ and below is my response that I shall be reading to the group tomorrow

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Dumping Our Sumps


Our garbage bin is full to the top

And overflowing with filthy slop


Contaminated dirt is spilling onto the tarmacs

Nuclear waste is seeping through the cracks

Dead batteries melt into poisonous wax

As empty aerosol cans add to our air’s death tax

Plastic bags are filled with grubby plastic packs

Eventually resurfacing as our oceans strangulation traps


Where do we dump our polluted fallout?

When will it be time to put the garbage out?





Ivor Steven (c) April 2021

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G'day, and welcome to my blog site. My name is Ivor Steven, I live in Geelong, Australia. I'm an ex-industrial chemist, and a retired plumber, and a former Carer of my wife(Carole), for 30 years, who suffered from severe MS. I Write poetry about those personal thoughts, throughout and beyond my life as a Carer. I've been blogging for over 2 years, and writing poems for 19 years. Of course a lot of my poems are about my favourite subject Carole, but since I've been blogging my writings have become quite varied, humourous, mystical, observational, and even a few monster/horror poems.

33 thoughts on “Dumping Our Sumps”

  1. The trash we are dumping into the oceans poison the living organisms, and, we eventually, consume these, fish, which means, that we are actually, consuming these, toxic wastes we, dispose of into, the oceans…

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  4. Three years ago, we travelled to a beach area that is off the track, and generally unused. It was paradise. We returned a year later and found the beach littered with plastics washed up from the ocean. The problem is real!

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  5. I wish more people would take the time to recycle their garbage, it’s so easy to do – rinse and recycle!

    I also wish that public areas could have two bins side by side. One for recycling, such as paper, plastic and metal and the other for obvious rubbish. And Perhaps even a third bin for glass.

    Did you know a glass bottle could take up to four thousand years to disappear when left on a land filled site? And one recycled aluminium can could be back on the supermarket shelf within 60 days! Alternatively, one aluminium can could provide enough power to run a television for three hours!

    I wish I knew how to that!

    Great subject Ivor, I guess you can tell it’s one of my favourites, that and giving lectures about chocolate! 😂

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  10. Powerful and timely! Photo, poem, and song!
    We MUST continue to do our part! And we can teach/encourage others to do their part! We must care enough to help heal, protect, and give long life to our planet and all who live here…human-beans and all the other creatures, too.
    (((HUGS)))
    🌎 🙂 🌍 🙂 🌏

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