Mark Forrester has taught English at the University of Maryland for more than 25 years. Mark has been publishing haiku and related forms in various journals for a dozen years. He is a high school dropout, a former chef, and a husband, father, and grandfather.
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Quite thought provoking the longer it sits on the plank of my mind. A sad poem. One that calls for action to save our Mother Earth, Gaia.
I like that I can read a literary connection which became an idiom:
An annoying burden: “That old car is an albatross around my neck.” Literally, an albatross is a large sea bird. The phrase alludes to Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” in which a sailor who shoots a friendly albatross is forced to wear its carcass around his neck as punishment.
In the case of Britain, we are surrounded by excessive amounts of raw sewage, a real albatross idiom if there was ever one.
I like that I can read a literary connection which became an idiom:
An annoying burden: “That old car is an albatross around my neck.” Literally, an albatross is a large sea bird. The phrase alludes to Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” in which a sailor who shoots a friendly albatross is forced to wear its carcass around his neck as punishment.
In the case of Britain, we are surrounded by excessive amounts of raw sewage, a real albatross idiom if there was ever one.
Quite thought provoking the longer it sits on the plank of my mind. A sad poem. One that calls for action to save our Mother Earth, Gaia.
I like that I can read a literary connection which became an idiom:
An annoying burden: “That old car is an albatross around my neck.” Literally, an albatross is a large sea bird. The phrase alludes to Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” in which a sailor who shoots a friendly albatross is forced to wear its carcass around his neck as punishment.
In the case of Britain, we are surrounded by excessive amounts of raw sewage, a real albatross idiom if there was ever one.
Terrific haiku!
I like that I can read a literary connection which became an idiom:
An annoying burden: “That old car is an albatross around my neck.” Literally, an albatross is a large sea bird. The phrase alludes to Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” in which a sailor who shoots a friendly albatross is forced to wear its carcass around his neck as punishment.
In the case of Britain, we are surrounded by excessive amounts of raw sewage, a real albatross idiom if there was ever one.
Terrific haiku!