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Why?
Leaping across white caps,
Dolphins along the coast of France
Laugh and play with each other.
Black, grey, and white swimming
In pods, they shine in sunlight.
They shine until nets cover them
Yanked under the fishing boat
They have followed until now--
In sudden darkness without fresh air
Needed for dolphins to survive.
When fisherman finally pull up
Their lethal net, they find not only
Sea bass to take to market but
Dolphins already dead and
One survivor to kill for pleasure.
The following article inspired this poem: Alberts, Elizabeth Claire. 2018 February 27. ‘10,000 Dolphins Are Being Secretly Killed in France Every Year,’ The Dodo, accessed 2018 August 6, <https://www.thedodo.com/in-the-wild/dolphins-caught-fishing-nets-france>.
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I've been writng poetry for 2 years now and one of my hopes for many of my poems is to help people become more aware of the beauty of nature and the neccesity to preserve it for future generations.