{"id":16152,"date":"2014-05-10T07:44:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-10T07:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=16152"},"modified":"2014-05-10T09:31:24","modified_gmt":"2014-05-10T09:31:24","slug":"tree-poaching-a-crime-of-the-reckless-sinners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/05\/tree-poaching-a-crime-of-the-reckless-sinners\/","title":{"rendered":"Tree Poaching ( a crime of the reckless sinners)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>North of San Francisco<\/p>\n<p>the Giant Redwoods grow<\/p>\n<p>some 2000- years or more<\/p>\n<p>illustriously they show<\/p>\n<p>they have witnessed History<\/p>\n<p>and that great \u00a0age they have spent<\/p>\n<p>climbing ever skywards<\/p>\n<p>clearly heaven sent<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>the vastness of their flora<\/p>\n<p>the massiveness of their base<\/p>\n<p>they have learned so much of life<\/p>\n<p>and have watched the human race<\/p>\n<p>developing below them<\/p>\n<p>and relapsing, so to say<\/p>\n<p>the goodness and the badness<\/p>\n<p>that came along the way<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>recently a scourge of vileness<\/p>\n<p>entered the domain<\/p>\n<p>it came into their aura<\/p>\n<p>and truthfully did claim<\/p>\n<p>an immense fear of toppling<\/p>\n<p>with the laggards of the night<\/p>\n<p>a lawlessness apparent<\/p>\n<p>a kind of human blight<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>and underclass of pestilence<\/p>\n<p>the mischief was abroad<\/p>\n<p>an irredeemable affliction<\/p>\n<p>for a scandalous reward<\/p>\n<p>they come within the darkest hours<\/p>\n<p>bandits one might say<\/p>\n<p>and carve great burls from<\/p>\n<p>redwood trunks<\/p>\n<p>and are gone by break of day<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>these are a shared facility<\/p>\n<p>the nation owns the stock<\/p>\n<p>these redwood trees have grown<\/p>\n<p>and their experience<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #444444; font-size: 14px;\">might shock<\/span><\/p>\n<p>any living being<\/p>\n<p>along side them today<\/p>\n<p>and to wantonly come to harm them<\/p>\n<p>and scar them is to pay<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>a loathsome and outrageous<\/p>\n<p>act<\/p>\n<p>upon an ancient soul<\/p>\n<p>who gave the sweetest oxygen<\/p>\n<p>for aoens and whose role<\/p>\n<p>was maintained<\/p>\n<p>and thus this crime<\/p>\n<p>against so venerable a tree<\/p>\n<p>is calamitous and damaging<\/p>\n<p>as ever it can be<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>these butchers<\/p>\n<p>these psychotic \u00a0imps<\/p>\n<p>whose chainsaws \u00a0burst with fire<\/p>\n<p>tearing through the aged heartwood<\/p>\n<p>leaving wounds so dire<\/p>\n<p>open to infection deleterious and sore<\/p>\n<p>weakening the structure<\/p>\n<p>like it never has before<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I feel such indignation<\/p>\n<p>such resentment for such acts<\/p>\n<p>the poachers needs to realize<\/p>\n<p>and understand the facts<\/p>\n<p>the whole vast equilibrium<\/p>\n<p>is aroused and will unite<\/p>\n<p>and Nemesis is woken<\/p>\n<p>to the evil deeds<\/p>\n<p>the night<\/p>\n<p>creates<\/p>\n<p>a perfect cover<\/p>\n<p>for these morbid men of dark<\/p>\n<p>a plague upon humanity<\/p>\n<p>their heartlessness is stark<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>the goddess knows the fervour<\/p>\n<p>that the community express<\/p>\n<p>she feels the insalubrity<\/p>\n<p>she understands the stress<\/p>\n<p>the great trees feel<\/p>\n<p>and wants to play<\/p>\n<p>her part in showing those<\/p>\n<p>arrant sinful blackguards<\/p>\n<p>that she is going to pose<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>them all a violent end<\/p>\n<p>much sooner than they might have thought<\/p>\n<p>the crushing of their bodies<\/p>\n<p>as the broken branches caught<\/p>\n<p>gusts of stormy weather<\/p>\n<p>and crash down onto those<\/p>\n<p>who perpetrate such evil<\/p>\n<p>and the agony it shows<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>such a meanness of \u00a0their spirit<\/p>\n<p>now rewarded by the way<\/p>\n<p>death comes with his sickle<\/p>\n<p>to cut their lives away<\/p>\n<p>to avenge the heartwoods spirit<\/p>\n<p>the great divinity<\/p>\n<p>a daughter of the silent hours<\/p>\n<p>gives this guarantee<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North of San Francisco the Giant Redwoods grow some 2000- years or more illustriously they show they have witnessed History and that great \u00a0age they have spent climbing ever skywards clearly heaven sent &nbsp; 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