Reflection

Reflection

This collection of poems is about the horror that plastics inflict on our oceans. Sidenote: I do not have a bibliography because I did not do any research before writing these poems; I used the knowledge that I already had learned from resources I first soaked up before this project. I have been passionately researching ocean life for most of my life. The first poem is about the hardships of people who rely on the sea for their livelihood and the terror of nets when they are lost into the sea. The next is an idea I stumbled on while writing my other poems, how I am ironically using plastics to advocate to save the world from plastics. Agbogbloshie is a ghetto in Accra, the capital of Ghana, with a large electronics dump, the place that most computers go to die, and it is, unfortunately, right next to the ocean. The next is about the hardships of people who rely on the sea for their livelihood and the terror of nets when they are lost into the sea. Cruel Imitations was born when I realized the connection between plastics replacing more expensive materials and how they accidentally mimic the prey of many animals. These poems come together to paint a picture of the current state of plastics in the ocean, tying in many different views and stories. I hope my poetry can give readers a different outlook on marine plastic pollution and inspire them to help.