Monthly Archives: January 2020

“Rexina”

A stunning and amazing soul A mountain full of fire An icy cape a vast great shape Of its beauty I won’t tire It is close to Riobamba From its rocky halo shroud All kinds of purple at its skirt … Continue reading

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God gave us eyes

God gave us eyes That we yes can see The drama and torture That happens to be In front of our heads As we wait in this place Wait to be murdered It’s such a disgrace The blood on the … Continue reading

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Nebraska’s Puma hunting

A lot of loose thinking And a lack of vision Nebraska judgement From me some derision A narrow mind An intolerance for The Puma or Mountain Lion Where there’s war It’s sort of attrition A mission that’s mean Just 40 … Continue reading

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Imbolc

It’s all about light And the concept it brings From the sombre dusk gloaming It’s vibrancy sings The wonderful crocus and snowdrops That show Their dazzling glare Just like fresh fallen snow Foaming and waxen Fresh, as can be Imbolc … Continue reading

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Wearing the skin of another

There is a basic wrongness About wearing Another creatures skin The unjustifiability It truly is a sin Discrimintory Below the belt In everything we do Transgress infringe and trespass All these things are true Wearing another creatures skin To be … Continue reading

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“Edward”

Standing by the roadside A victim, Passers by Hardly realising That this donkey he did cry Suffering the agony Of his legs wired Up and he Left to face the music As some were soon to see Taken back to … Continue reading

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Pachyderms lament

We are really up against it Walking as we do Where accidents with trains Are constant and a clue The virtue of our being In places where we must Cross railways in our passage Just victims in the dust The … Continue reading

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OUR BARD

A hooded cloak of cherry Badges everywhere A grey beard matching tousled hair A bard whose need to share Words and compositions A preamble to it all A rich continuation To the writing on the wall A soothsayer of seasons … Continue reading

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Wild Hunters

That kindly disposition That amiability A family with such closeness With wild ability Responsiveness and caring Chivalrous both be The great Mother behind them Overflowing empathy Up against pure cussedness The spitefulness of man Who calls himself a hunter Making … Continue reading

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Wolf moon

Packs of hungry wolves At midwinter tend to be Howling at the moon it’s said And that is why we see The first full moon Of this new year Called after their lament This a penembral Lunar eclipse Where the … Continue reading

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An Essex Dairy Farm

A dairy farm in Essex Was !visited late last year And a general lack of principle And injustice there was clear Shabbiness abjectness The poor cows beaten by Frustrated cruel abusers Who tragically apply Unworthiness and puerility No respect at … Continue reading

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Babies

The insidiousness of tourism On the Lesser Sanda Islands East of Java On the coral triangle Where we Bali it’s a paradise For tastelessness And crassness For just four quid A baby monkey can be yours To be Involved in … Continue reading

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Adam

From a mindset of neglect And irresponsibility I came to know a man called Adam Who said he had come to see Me to help me That was just unusual let me say But the first thing that he noticed … Continue reading

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Cashmere

259 grams of hair per goat I understand And so a cashmere jumper Takes six GOATS Done by hand Metal combs and brute strength And tugging at the hair Until they bleed Imagine that And be glad you are not … Continue reading

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Thanks Karen

To walk lightly in the forest Through the landscape that we share All those natural forces And of the wild folk that live there The geographical energies The magnetic spirit too The wells the streams Our collective dreams It’s what … Continue reading

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Camels

So Australia is panicking The fires are causing stress And camels in the outback Who really want for less They are the desert animals Efficiency their thing Able to drink less water Recycling they bring Really many advantages of course … Continue reading

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“Rizu”

Indisposed and apparently Aching where he lay A puppy bleeding from the mouth and nose His woe was way Beyond what we thought normal In the depths of misery We picked him up and took him Back To let the … Continue reading

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No excuse for animal abuse CHINA

1600-1046BC Shang Dynasty The integrity of life itself Began we have to say Prioritised To a regulated system And a way Of dealing with disorder And what were chaotic states Ancestors took invention And pioneering traits Herbs and plants and … Continue reading

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African muti medicine

The Zulu’s Have a word for it Muti it’s derived From the word UMUTHI The roots that have survived Deep in Southern Africa Where magic is said to reign Where the izinyanga operate And many more attain Knowledge weird and … Continue reading

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Kangaroos

The disrespectful can’t imagine How callous they can be Importing any Kangaroo For the life of me To pair them up with so called fighters Of The noble sport In a ring with boxing gloves In point of fact in … Continue reading

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Massa and his lady friend

Zoo’s continue high and mighty Places where we are told Endangered species breeding programmes That is how they are sold This particular zoo In Germany With all these precious souls Captive locked in cages But just run by arse oles … Continue reading

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Behind our backs

Behind our backs In full sight What we are going to see Is a complete transformation Smart cities There will be Control oh yes big brother And sister and the gang Monitor and spy on us Let civilisation hang Fire … Continue reading

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Fear

Unadulterated fear As far as the eyes can see The heat that’s coming at us Being felt by me An agony where all I know Is rapidly no more All the trees The birds and bees Are in an unholy … Continue reading

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Turkeys and Yule

2020 apparently sees Turkey Into stress In Lubartowski Eastern Poland There is something of a mess Three farms at least are suffering Some 40,000 birds All who escaped Christmas Won’t like to hear these words H5N8 Avian Flu That hits … Continue reading

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Oghams

Oghams when recorded on bits of wood or stone Was on one edge The stem line Right left diagonally And Also on bone The upward direction A sort of a code Tribal by inflection Not middle of the road 4 … Continue reading

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Courage of a single handed ranger

At the end of the year A Kruger Ranger One man so clearly on form Single handedly captured 5 armed poachers And took them apart Like a storm Stoutness of heart His bravery clear The men were arrested It’s then … Continue reading

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Poachers at work

A Nature Reserve In South Africa Suffered an incident where 8 lions were poisoned Using toxic meat And died in the vilest despair Poachers then removed their paws And their jaws “Muti” the reason believed In Zulu it’s medicine A … Continue reading

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Xin yue Zhou and her wolves

A guiltlessness An inoffensiveness A state of Grace An odour of pure sanctity Integrity in place Truly understanding The spirit of the wild Canis lupus lupus Almost as a child The distinction of an elder An admirable display Solemnity and … Continue reading

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Contempt

Contempt for one another In the way we run our lives What we eat and what’s out there And really who survives Industrialisation Coal fired electrity Smelting incineration of waste The pollution industry The oceans are awash with filth The … Continue reading

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Guilt

Australia is teetering The bush fires are alight Burning across the precious land Morning noon and night Wildness being subjected To the vagaries of man To his arrogance and ignorance And how his traits do span The cattle and the … Continue reading

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