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all for nothing, Brutality, Designer bags, Forestry, Friday Flash 55, Handbags with crumpled paper, Model bags, new handbags, Paper wastage, Savagery, Save the greens!, Theme Thursday, Tree chopping, Trees
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Tall trees
sawed and axed
chopped and felled
Nature choked,
uprooted and quelled
trampled and then flattened
Only to fill a few empty handbags
sitting new and pretty in stores
Where’s the justice?
Someone is too
vexed
about
a bag
being
taken
as one
wilted
jewel,
useless
if it does not
hold a thing inside
*I am posting this poem for G-Man’s Friday Flash 55 and for Theme Thursday*
**The idea for this was inspired the theme (paper) at this week’s Theme Thursday, and how it seemed to fit in perfectly with my recent packing activities for my upcoming India trip… I bought a few handbags for friends, and while packing them in, this was what I had observed!! Infuriating, really!!! **
*** The shape of the poem was inspired by a Sunday 160 poem called Roots of my poet-tree written by Brian Miller a few months back … I remember that particular poem by him because it was the first shape poem I had EVER read or seen.. and I was simply awestruck by it! Some poems just STAY with you… don’t they? ***
How I write, is mine...How you read, is yours 
You bet! Some poems do stay with you..!!
I can so relate with what you have said here.. excepting that I am not getting no handbag!! Remember? It’s the same paper that we learn to write upon.. sigh!
Guess I got carried away! Shape poem? You are one Shape- Diva! Wonderful…!!!
Thanks for posting this thoughtful one- need more of these around..
Handbag? Well I’ll live without one from you- hehehehehe 🙂
Hugs xx
Despite it all, I have so many handbags, Olivia! 😦 But I really try my best to buy those that are not already stuffed with paper! I find it disgusting really! What I cannot understand is, why do they use new paper! Why can they not use scrap paper,older newspapers, etc!! Whew!
Glad you liked this one, girl… thanks for your kind words…
That is truly a big waste of trees! How about a plastic insert instead? Good write!
haha… well said, Paulo! Why bother FILLING those handbags at all!?!?? Why can’t those bags just stay empty on those display cases?! Whheeww.. I have never been able to understand this…
Glad you liked this one, my friend..
Awesome write – and you are SOOOoo great at shaping your words! You will have to teach me that one day as I would not know where to start! lols.
Love and hugs,
Chloe xx
Wowwwiiiieeesss…Chloeeeeeeeeeeee!!! It’s so lovely to see you here, girl! GOSH, I have missed you so much!! 😦
I hope all is well with you, sweetie!!
Oh.. this poem… I started writing it and realized it looked a little like a tree…so I then tweaked the words a bit more to make it actually look more like a tree 🙂
Glad you liked it, darling!! Thank youuuuu
Will see you soon at your blog.. NOW!! 🙂 xoxoox
I know Kavita, they could have used styrafoam!
I just LOVE Green 55’s
Great post.
Thanks for playing, and have a Kick Ass Week-End
hahaha… they needn’t use anything to fill bags, just for the purpose of selling ’em! Whheeww! What a waste it is!
Glad you liked this poem, G-man… you rock!!!
Love the shape poem idea. I remember Brian’s. I was taken with it too.
Yes, packing materials of all kinds are annoying. I’m hopeful that they are all recycled materials, though. I’d be really ticked off if trees had come down just to make packing.
You bet, Patti!! I too hope it’s all recycled material! But really, they could be using all that paper for something more useful, than just filling up bags (for the SAKE of filling them up)…duhhh.. some things really annoy me!
Thanks for your support and kind words, my dear friend… Cheers to GREEN!! 😀 (hugs)
And as for B’s poem, totally inspiring!!
Love this shape poem and the message….wish retailers would get the point of this poem.
Ugghh..seriously, Charles! I feel like slapping this poem (NOT on paper though) on their faces.. with the hope that they understand!
Thanks for your kind words, my dear friend
It is a really fascinating debate. I used to date a young lady who was in ‘Forestry Management’ (she was working on a masters degree in the subject from the University of Toronto). Apparently the whole idea of figuring out how to use psychology in training people not to use paper in these wasteful ways is a huge part of what gets researched. Pretty crazy when you really think about it. I really like the shape thing, you are getting good at it 😀
Usually, I wouldn’t call myself a GREEN fanatic or anything… I try avoiding plastic as far as possible, and I try wasting paper too.. but that’s about it.. 🙂
But this – stuffing new bags with packing paper – seriously, I just don’t get it! It seems absolutely meaningless to me, ya know! I mean, can’t we “SEE/FEEL” the shape of the bag without it being filled with so much paper (recycled or not, it doesn’t matter)… I mean, there’s GOT TO BE better uses to paper than THIS!! Whheeww… I guess certain things really get to you.. no?
Now… for the shape of the poem, as I was writing it, I realized that it seemed to be getting some odd looking shape.. so I thought I may as well shape it like a tree.. just to put the message across sorta… And I am really glad you liked it, Mark… thank you so much for your words of appreciation and encouragement.. it means a lot to me, my dear friend!!
thoughtful, like you…
Peace, hp
Ge.. thank you, hp… you are very kind, my friend..
Love the shape poem, and the message. Pitch perfect.
Ohh..thank you, my dear… YES to handbags.. NO to paper packing! 😀
love how you structured the piece and great message!
Oh.. thank you so much, Tekia dear.. I am very happy you liked this poem..
lovely shape.
what a grinning 55.
divine message, aptly delivered…
🙂
Aww.. thanks, Ji!!! 😀
I know what you mean about the stuffing in the purses. What a waste.
I’ve seen other shape poems, besides Brian’s and yours, but I’ve never had the courage to try one. Maybe I should wait ’til I have more experience and develope more poetry. It’s great how you did yours.
Glad you liked this one, Myrna… thank you!! And yes, you must try it yourself… it’s quite a bit of fun, and a challenge too, ya know!
Lovely write, yet we need a bag that can hold tight man’s temptation to ostentatiously display wealth for external srokes.. we all have abg but god wants us to look for it inside.. well..may be one day.. thanks Kavita for your encouraging comments..
Thanks, Rameshji.. there’s so much truth in your comment here… we do indeed need to look inside the bag to know the real us… hopefully, one day, we will eliminate the bag altogether… whew!
Glad you liked the message in this one, RS.. thanks again..
loved the shape theme image of the poem. …. well i think i loved everything 🙂
heheh.. thank you so much, Baishali dear…
Lovely poem with relavent message. And thanks for introducing me to shape poetry. Even I would like to try it some time.
Oh you should, Karthik.. it’s certainly fun stuff, and quite a challenge too! Glad you liked this one, K.. thanks..
Ah, the shape! Brilliant!
Aww.. thanks, Blaga dear!!
There! The thing I love in your poetry. 😀
BTW, just saw that you are coming to India. I wish you have a great trip!
Cheers!
Gee… thanks for everything, Mihir.. very sweet of you!
Very powerful post about something I notice but so take for granted. thank you!
Oh yes, Meryl.. it’s a reminder to me too really! I think there are too many things I take for granted… time to change that.. no!? 🙂
Excellent and very true statement Kavita.
And that is truly a touch of genius shaping it into a tree.
It can not have been easy
Well.. it took a bit of work… but that was definitely the way to get the message across… I am glad you liked and appreciated it, Richard.. thank you..
i love the way u used words in so nyc ways 🙂
HATS OFFFF
Aww… I am flattered, Anum… thank you so much, dear! 😀