{"id":28694,"date":"2016-07-28T07:07:51","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T07:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=28694"},"modified":"2016-07-29T10:59:42","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T10:59:42","slug":"lammas-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/07\/lammas-time\/","title":{"rendered":"This Lammas time (a question I put to you all)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summer  came, the odd blue sky<br \/>\nBut tragically ask yourselves why<br \/>\nThe skies above now are seldom blue<br \/>\nWithout  streaks of artificiality too<br \/>\nAre crops abundant there are a few<br \/>\nGrains to be threshed when cherries do<br \/>\nLook plump and ready, those around<br \/>\nBut the Fruit on my trees weigh not even one pound!<\/p>\n<p>Apples are here but lack of the sun<br \/>\nAt Lammastime<br \/>\nWhat has that done?<br \/>\nThe summer bounty isn&#8217;t as  great<br \/>\nBut Our celebration<br \/>\nIt cannot wait<br \/>\nIn hope, for the sun to ripen fast<br \/>\nUpon those fruits where her eye she cast<br \/>\nWe remember Ceres the goddess she<br \/>\nTaught us to preserve seed fertility<\/p>\n<p>In the form of grains which we surely did<br \/>\nBut now Monsanto in their bid<br \/>\nIn their pursuit of a profit base<br \/>\nNeglecting the goddess not knowing her place<br \/>\nIn the Scheme of things all they see<br \/>\nAre dollar bills unfortunately<\/p>\n<p>Farmers are told seed saved will die<br \/>\nGenetically altered under the sky<br \/>\nThe farmers question their place<br \/>\nnow here<br \/>\nFor the world they knew is far from clear<\/p>\n<p>The corporations will not take heed<br \/>\nYou see they want you to buy new seed<br \/>\nTheir seed thats doctored to withstand their<br \/>\nPower of attorney that lets you share<br \/>\na little of their wealth if  you pay<br \/>\nA colossal sum to them today<\/p>\n<p>If not they come from out of the sky<br \/>\nTo apply the spray and your crops will die<br \/>\nLammas Time and the goddess who<br \/>\nCreated life on Earth for you<br \/>\nGave us cereals in her name<br \/>\nClearly she is not to blame<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the minds of men whose warped desire<br \/>\nIs to lead us screaming through their fire<br \/>\nTo sell more roundup to sell and sell<br \/>\nAnd draw us down to their man made hell<br \/>\nTo threaten us more to upset each day<br \/>\nAnd really and honestly to drive us awayi<\/p>\n<p>From the land we loved  and wanted to share<br \/>\nUntil only the corporation was there<br \/>\nWho gave  us our orders for slaves we be<br \/>\nand they  decide our fertility<br \/>\nEugenics is working it&#8217;s now alive<br \/>\nOne wonders how many of us will survive<\/p>\n<p>To remember the sabatts and each celebration<br \/>\nWorked through the hearts of this precious nation<br \/>\nCommitted to Ceres the goddess who gave<br \/>\nOur ancestors hope from the seeds they did save<br \/>\nWhether ROLLRIGHTS will stay with its lichens still green<br \/>\nWill the mole hills still be here or some great machine<br \/>\nWould have levelled the sacredness out of where we<br \/>\nStood in our circles protected and free<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer came, the odd blue sky But tragically ask yourselves why The skies above now are seldom blue Without streaks of artificiality too Are crops abundant there are a few Grains to be threshed when cherries do Look plump and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/07\/lammas-time\/\">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":[200],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-sabbats-and-the-old-craft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28694","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=28694"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28723,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28694\/revisions\/28723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}