BOnobo’s congo basis healers
\nCan we learn and hope to share
\nFrom the rainforest the pharmacy
\nPossibly with care
\nPulchritude and perfection
\nThe rainforest an endless dream
\nSuch magic born of nature
\nWhose radiance does seem
\nTo harbour many many wonders
\nAnd one soul on this universe
\nA german lady Barbara Fruth
\nDecided that she would immerse
\nBerself in study of an ape
\nThe Bonobo where she could just escape<\/p>\n
Find a serendipity on their level
\nShe could be
\nSuch panache and resoluteness
\nAnd to really try and to redress
\nThe balance for she understood
\nThat we can learn from them
\nAnd good
\nMay come from observation
\nShe
\nWas bumbled by their constancy<\/p>\n
Her integrity was very clear
\nShe made her camp and without fear
\nDecided she would spend two months
\nEach year
\nFollowing bonobo’s everyday
\nRespecting them in every way
\nA code of honour she possessed
\nAnd studying them she felt blessed<\/p>\n
Unsullied by the work out there
\nThe many miles to walk and share
\nThe Nkundo people themselves who gave
\nTheir help and their labour wanting to save
\nThe apes and to understand
\nThe instinctive knowledge perhaps the hand
\nOf Nature too gave them a place
\nTo actually help the human race<\/p>\n
With forests all around the world
\nBeing destroyed mans sickness hurled
\nAcross the many acres he
\nSlash and burn insanity
\nTearing down the flora rich
\nInto battle he does pitch
\nThe might of devastation to
\nThese miracles of light and dew<\/p>\n
She alone could see the pain
\nWith moral fibre she could gain
\nPerhaps a foothold in their sphere
\nObserving them from very near
\nShowing respect in glowing terms
\nAnd that this research coukd just confirm
\nThat great apes can self medicate
\nInstinctively thus to placate<\/p>\n
Injuries and wounds and ills
\nThe forest proving the many skills
\nOf choosing medicinal plants
\nTo learn first hand to have that chance
\nShe had the light and the vision to
\nHonour their presence and quietly view
\nTheir habits regard them and admire
\nStudy tHeir droppings and light a fire<\/p>\n
In her own heart extraordinarily
\nIt was their sustainablity
\nHer adoration for a kindly group
\nWho live in the now and are in the loop
\nClose to the earth in touch with the sky
\nIndigenous creatures born on high
\nWhat they eat and how they chew
\nAnd what they pass yes the whole crew<\/p>\n
Able to spend some weeks away
\nWatching the Bonobo’s work and play
\nHaving character and integrity
\nWith abstinence and frugality
\nFrom the film such sensitivity
\nClosely watching wanting to be
\nIn their aura seeing their space
\nTheir tender hearted gushing grace<\/p>\n
Their exhileration and impact for
\nThe other members equally sure
\nThe troop were intelligent and self aware
\nThey groomed each other with extra care
\nTheir temperament was peaceful they
\nSeemed to enjoy each passing day
\nA constant presence since 2002
\nGave some protection and help her do
\nThe amount of work that needs be out here
\nto Max Planc and the antwerp zoo tus clear
\nThe gardeners of the forest they
\nAre an integral part of the forest today<\/p>\n
They spread the seeds the dung beetles too
\nWho turn over the ground they bury the poo
\nAnd so a rewilding continuously
\ngoes on Unlike man where obtuseness can be
\nReally frustrating for loggers cant see
\nThe ancientness lost in their profitable quest
\nTo earn for the moment with incredible zest
\nBut fail to remember the future must be
\nPrepared for a nurtured for eternity<\/p>\n
She studies their movements every day
\nOn which plants they eat from and takes them away
\nSampling leaves leaf stems barks she is there
\nBuilding the puzzle to make us aware
\nTalking to the patrols going outnon treks
\nTen days of study and ifcourse checks
\nFinding the wire traps & pulling them down
\nLooking for bush meat supplied to the town
\nTaking photographs And writing up notes
\nListening to dialogue remembering quotes<\/p>\n
Bringing back samples to show back at home
\nTo the various institutes that really comb
\nThrough her botanicals and the raw leaves
\nHoping one day that this work achieves
\nA breakthrough in medicine yes possibly
\nFor humans or environments which we know would be
\nImmensely proper for such eradication
\nIs meaning that unless we learn now
\nOur salvation<\/p>\n
May not be so good we are playing with fire
\nThe miracles happen the time out is dire
\nWe have a short sphere before forests are gone
\nMan and ambition is apparently on
\nThe up for the forests complete devastation
\nMay very well end up destroying the nation<\/p>\n
So you see this visionary women she be
\nImmensely valued by all who can see
\nBeyond the soft toilet rollsand the palm fat
\nInto the riveting jungle now at
\nThe crossroads for discovering so much and she
\nIs giving her time and her mind just to see
\nThe poachers are out there groups of them too
\nWith the AK47’s and what can ensue from their horrid acts
\nIs the death And disgrace
\nOf so many killings all over the place
\nAgainst the corruption of governments who
\nWork with the bad guys the vile poachers who
\nAre establishing markets out in the far east
\nAnd murdering wholesale the precious wild beast<\/p>\n
In Kenshasa the markets have specimens tHere
\nBonobo bush meat on sale everywhere
\nThe bonobo population has probably halved
\nDown from 100,000 and falling below
\nThat figure even perhaps 30,000
\nThe figures are falling as poacher groups grow
\nAs to wild plants and the qualities there
\nThey have sunstantiality ni matter how rare
\nAnd considerable weight on the instinctive might
\nOf the world of Nature and this is in spite
\nOf slash and burn tactics tHat ofcourse destroy
\nThe potential of new drugs and how to employ<\/p>\n
Their worth based on bonobo’s natural behaviour
\nTheir special connectedness and the great flavour
\nAnd spirit of rainforests, that still exist
\nAnd the contrariness If we resist
\nDestroying these habitats wiping away
\nThe miracles put there to help us to stay
\nHealthy and strong and for these forests too
\nProvide for the environment like no others do
\nRaping and pillaging slashing and burning
\nFor Barbara Fruth its all very concerning.<\/p>\n
BRaunschweig
\nResearch work continuing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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