{"id":26524,"date":"2016-02-28T11:32:29","date_gmt":"2016-02-28T11:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=26524"},"modified":"2016-02-28T11:53:35","modified_gmt":"2016-02-28T11:53:35","slug":"trees-once-did-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/02\/trees-once-did-please\/","title":{"rendered":"When we disrespect our elders our future is bleak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sky clad we dance in the forests of time<br \/>\nSpreading our branches as onward we  climb<br \/>\nUpwards and outwards real sculptures we be<br \/>\nOur stillness is clearly so creatively<br \/>\nDrawing the energy out of the earth<br \/>\nAnd all of the goodness and all of its worth<br \/>\nGreat social beings harbingers we<br \/>\nOxygen given for eternity<\/p>\n<p>A melodious network of fungi below<br \/>\nSharing their messages helping the flow<br \/>\nSucking up nutrients making some more<br \/>\nAnd sharing the  wealth that so many ignore<\/p>\n<p>The great city forests harmonious places<br \/>\nThe great mothers clamour seen on our faces<br \/>\nThe wind in the willows the hearts of the oak<br \/>\nThe echoes of the ancients that silently cloak<br \/>\nThe carpets of leaf mold that transmit their power<br \/>\nInto our saplings that burst on the hour<\/p>\n<p>Dendrology discovering darkness and light<br \/>\nDelving through destiny the great insight<br \/>\nThose ancient felled trunks kept sweeter<br \/>\nAnd still<br \/>\nAlive to remind us that they always will<\/p>\n<p>Receive our respect for their true incarnation<br \/>\nThey made us the spring board which is our salvation<br \/>\nWe sprung from their glory from their sweet domain<br \/>\nAnd by sharing their love we can only gain<\/p>\n<p>What is wrong with the human tribe<br \/>\nThe youth of the day<br \/>\nThey Imagine they know<br \/>\nAnd thus never say<br \/>\nThe elder has purpose the elder can see<br \/>\nBeyond the great digital world<br \/>\nThat now be<\/p>\n<p>Enclosing their hearts<br \/>\nand destroying their life<br \/>\nHuge violent storms<br \/>\nthat engage and the strife<br \/>\nIs killing the natural world<br \/>\ncircling high<br \/>\nIts the new world order<br \/>\nAnd their WIFI <\/p>\n<p>It is sucking out spirit<br \/>\ndestroying our  soul<br \/>\nThe young disrespect<br \/>\ntheir elders control<br \/>\nThey imagine their intellect<br \/>\nfar beyond ours<br \/>\nThough Their footprint is huge<br \/>\nthough their lifespan just hours<\/p>\n<p>Their true DNA<br \/>\nis bombarded and they<br \/>\nWill not  live as long<br \/>\nas the ancients whose way<br \/>\nWas to value the forest<br \/>\nand breathe in each tree<br \/>\nAnd hug us and see us<br \/>\nbut the children now be<\/p>\n<p>Hunched over their Ipads<br \/>\nand  lap tops their eyes<br \/>\nBlinded by power<br \/>\nthat will host their demise<br \/>\nIts a raucous discord<br \/>\nthat brazenly blares<br \/>\nInto each sinew<br \/>\nthe strident despairs<\/p>\n<p>We the great trees<br \/>\neven we are aghast<br \/>\nFor we feel the evil too<br \/>\nand ever fast<br \/>\nThe sick tetra trees<br \/>\nnow posted beside<br \/>\nThey produce a cacophony<br \/>\nthats been denied<\/p>\n<p>They sicken by giving<br \/>\nthe harshest of sound<br \/>\nAnd drowning out<br \/>\nall of the nature around<br \/>\nIn dungeons in chains<br \/>\nThe electrical fix<br \/>\nThe hunters outside<br \/>\nKnocked all wild ones for six<\/p>\n<p>Why is it so many of you now<br \/>\nPrefer<br \/>\nTo sit in the darkness<br \/>\nIts as if you were<br \/>\nBlinded by light<br \/>\nBy the sweep of the blue<br \/>\nBy the sky and the countryside<br \/>\nSo part of you<\/p>\n<p>So failed to see all the wild animals<br \/>\nDie<br \/>\nAnd tree after tree<br \/>\nTorn down to lie<br \/>\nAnd you make your computer desks<br \/>\nWith our wood<br \/>\nImagining somehow<br \/>\nThat was as good<\/p>\n<p>Where did the trees go<br \/>\nThey one by one<br \/>\nWere polluted and felled<br \/>\nNow there are  none<br \/>\nThe air that you breathe<br \/>\nIs terribly poor<br \/>\nThe lungs of the planet<br \/>\nYou all did ignore<\/p>\n<p>And now you are choking<br \/>\nAnd only the young<br \/>\nAre left in the dungeons<br \/>\nReally among<br \/>\nThe machines and the<br \/>\nSick<br \/>\nThe light taken away<br \/>\nYour backs are so  bent<br \/>\nStaring at the display<\/p>\n<p>Your water is tainted<br \/>\nYour oxygen too<br \/>\nWIFI killed everything<br \/>\nYes that is true<br \/>\nThe bees and the birds<br \/>\nAnd every wild soul<br \/>\nYour elders are rotting<br \/>\nIn every dark hole<\/p>\n<p>You thought it was your choice<br \/>\nBut alas it was not<br \/>\nAll the goodness you had<br \/>\nNow No one has got<br \/>\nThe great HAARP God sends out<br \/>\nIts stridor and pain<br \/>\nAnd The trees logged and left<br \/>\nwill not grow again<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sky clad we dance in the forests of time 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