{"id":16872,"date":"2014-07-17T06:08:43","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T06:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=16872"},"modified":"2014-07-17T06:19:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T06:19:00","slug":"mother-nature-shes-always-there-a-poem-requested-by-tree-spirits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/07\/mother-nature-shes-always-there-a-poem-requested-by-tree-spirits\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother Nature she&#8217;s always there  a poem requested by Tree Sisters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mother Nature<\/p>\n<p>she&#8217;s always there<\/p>\n<p>she fixes things<\/p>\n<p>she&#8217;s so aware<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>man comes along<\/p>\n<p>with his violent ways<\/p>\n<p>logs the forests<\/p>\n<p>and who pays<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>the trees, the saplings<\/p>\n<p>the insects the birds<\/p>\n<p>honestly we should mind our words<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>for Mother Nature she just pays<\/p>\n<p>to turn the clock back<\/p>\n<p>to a phase<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>where equilibrium<\/p>\n<p>helps us see<\/p>\n<p>that the passage of time<\/p>\n<p>does hold the key<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>to regeneration<\/p>\n<p>for creation builds<\/p>\n<p>with wind and rain and soul<\/p>\n<p>the fields<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>grow again<\/p>\n<p>for arrogance<\/p>\n<p>has no place in the great romance<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mother Nature the goddess who<\/p>\n<p>survives the onslaught<\/p>\n<p>and remains true<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>great swards may perish<\/p>\n<p>but still we see<\/p>\n<p>an ever expanding possiblity<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Look at the ravages of fire<\/p>\n<p>of flood and earthquake<\/p>\n<p>it feels dire<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>to the human spirit but we see<\/p>\n<p>a landscape<\/p>\n<p>and a fertility<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>a greening<\/p>\n<p>and a place of care<\/p>\n<p>For Mother Nature does not despair<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>the way of man<\/p>\n<p>is to try and tame<\/p>\n<p>often his methods<\/p>\n<p>just inflame<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>his lack of understanding can<\/p>\n<p>ruin the truly natural plan<\/p>\n<p>but despite all that<\/p>\n<p>with wisdom vast<\/p>\n<p>she can rebalance and rekindle fast<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>with some of her allies<\/p>\n<p>the wild souls who<\/p>\n<p>join together and make it through<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>look to her spirit<\/p>\n<p>look to her flair<\/p>\n<p>remember my dears<\/p>\n<p>she is always there<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>man can destroy<\/p>\n<p>he is so good at that<\/p>\n<p>but he cannot create<\/p>\n<p>out of where he is at<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>and this is his failing<\/p>\n<p>from forest to glade<\/p>\n<p>and into a desert his poisons<\/p>\n<p>he&#8217;s laid<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But Nature has answers<\/p>\n<p>she builds as we err<\/p>\n<p>and proves she can do it<\/p>\n<p>she does concur<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>she has the power<\/p>\n<p>she has the time<\/p>\n<p>she has the spirit<\/p>\n<p>contained in this rhyme<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mother Nature she&#8217;s always there she fixes things she&#8217;s so aware &nbsp; man comes along with his violent ways logs the forests and who pays &nbsp; the trees, the saplings the insects the birds honestly we should mind our words &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/07\/mother-nature-shes-always-there-a-poem-requested-by-tree-spirits\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16872"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16874,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16872\/revisions\/16874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}