New Year's Poetry Challenge, Prompt #2
"Below is a list of items that were removed from our Northern California rivers during 2014's Great Sierra River Cleanup. Write a poem in which you include at least 7 of these items. It might be about a river clean-up or it might be about something else. (And no straight lists of items allowed.)
a samurai sword
a horse hitching post
a master cylinder for a 1933 truck
a boogie board
a bed and mattress
a chandelier
a statue of Ganesh, a Hindu god
a lava lamp
a boxing glove
a waffle iron
50 pounds of lead bars
a Monopoly set
a rubber ducky dressed as a hockey player
Source: Sierra Nevada Conservancy"
There’s a bowling ball in my third eye—blockage
Ganesh said he’d swallow it for some humanity
for compassion instead of boxing gloves
So I traded my lava
lamp for world peace
buried it in my backyard so it would grow
Now it’s a lost treasure, like the last will and testament
I left under my mattress when I was ten
What had I wanted to say at ten
at ten when I wanted to die
A child playing with samurai swords instead of Monopoly
or rubber duckies dressed as hockey players
grew up to be the kind of hippie who walks
in love and contradiction
Time and time again I forget—
have to prove my resiliency
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