This is a poem I wrote for the #PlanetOrPlastic contest on Wattpad and National Geographic.

I want new fish to fish today
I’m sitting by the bay.
The clouds are gray and far away
My task is underway.

I wish for carp to come on out
Or even speckled trout
I quickly see there are no fish
But soon I spot a different dish

The jellyfish I wanted
Made me slightly daunted.
I thought they’d many stingers
Not four legs tied together.
Still, it freely swims the salty sea
With not a wish to flee.

The next I caught was also not
Exactly what I thought.

I didn’t know that sea snakes
Could make themselves so straight.
Lines of green run in-between
I wonder what they mean.
I think they last ate long ago
Their figures are so hollow.

I start to feel a little scared
I’m very unprepared.

Then came the mighty turtle
That went through many hurdles.
Its shell contained a rounded gap
That’s covered with a cap.

I found no fish to fish today
I don’t think I will stay.
For what I found weren’t fish or prey
But human disarray.