Plastic Blooms, Beauty's Doom

Radiant facade, masking a death,

Enduring essence, a hollow jest,

Plastic blooms, beauty detest.

Noticed not, a parody of bloom,

Nature's absence, their silent gloom,

Cleaned, crafted, in their plastic tomb,

Plastic blooms, beauty's doom.

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*It was written firstly in Leni Marlina's private poem collection in 2011 in Padang, West Sumatra.

**She is a lecturer at Faculty of Languages and Art, Universitas Negeri Padang; the member of writer's association of Satu Pena, West Sumatra, Indonesia & Victoria Writers, Australia.

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