Great Salt Lake Limerick by Nini Rich

Nini picking up microtrash on a soggy morning during the annual shoreline clean-up hosted by Friends of Great Salt Lake. Nini picking up microtrash on a soggy morning during the annual shoreline clean-up hosted by Friends of Great Salt Lake.

 

 

There’s a great inland sea we call lake
She gives and she gives and we take.
We will have to work fast,
or her gifts will not last.
Act now for the birds and kid’s sake!

Nini grew up on the eastern shore of the ancient Lake Bonneville where the Great Salt Lake was a shining line on the horizon. Now she is pulled toward a deeper immersion. Her verse is Part 34 of the collective praise poem irreplaceable.