NaPoWriMo 2021 Day 22 -- Earth Day

 

[This old Model A Ford Pickup was parked in our church parking lot one Sunday.  Don't know whose it was but I'd like to have one like it.]  

Earth Day

 

What does that mean to you 

Several years ago those words meant 

Get out the old pickup, 

we will pickup trash.

When we got it full 

We'd drive to the dump 

and then go for another load 

and maybe plant a tree

These to show our 

appreciation to 

Mother Nature, 

work to keep her pretty

Nowadays it's still plant a tree 

But there is more 

Like 

write your congressman 

sign your name to a petition 

charge your PayPal 

a hundred bucks 

or less to

the Sierra Bunch, 

get six friends to do 

the same,  

and then go plant the tree 

and get out the old pickup 

truck to pickup trash. 

These to keep our home, 

bodies, and planet 

habitable and 

looking 

nice 

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 - Poem and Photo Copyright, Jimmiehov 2021 and 2016, All Rights Reserved (photo first at http://jimmiehov.blogspot.com/2016/08/my-survey-fridays-hunt-v206-f-is-for.html 

 - I am linked with the Writer's Pantry #67,    https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/2021/04/writers-pantry-67-ecolinguistics.html

 - I am also linked with NaPoWriMo 2021 Day 22,      https://www.napowrimo.net/day-twenty-two-7/

 - I am attempting to write at least one poem a day for the National Poem Writing Month.  Today is Day 22 of the 30, you can see my progress here, NaPoWriMo 2021. 

 - Write a poem using a Metonymy and I wanted to write also for the observance of "Earth Day" in my writing today.  Earth Day represents more than just a holiday.  It represents out of the ordinary  action that one doesn't ordinary do for the purpose of making and keeping our Earth the fine place it physically is.

 - Metonymy (/mɛˈtɒnəmi/)^[1] is a figure of speech in which a thing or concept is referred to by the name of something closely associated with that thing or concept.^{[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metonymy}