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nature suffering, in my heart I suffer with her too
in your heart natures plight, you suffer
you might not know it but it is killing you.
killing you, me, all life suffering facing,
facing, but mentally blinded to mass extinction.
can you not see?
symbiotic relationships, do you know, do you?
how many lives live on you, in you, how many
forms of life keep you alive, you, me, us, who?
yes you too, all fauna needs bacteria in, and on
our bodies, for both to survive, to stay alive/
can you not feel?
flora, our symbiotic partner breathes for us,
and all fauna, yes all, inclusive, we are fauna.
breathing for flora, yet we kill it!
kill, slaughter it by fourteen million acres a year,
in one-year 56'655.99 km² of the UK denuded!
can you not empathize?
scaremongering? yes, for we all should be very scared!
our grandchildren's children very scared for them!
bar a minority the world population blind, blind to facts,
climate change, look out your window, see the truth,
the truth, nature suffering, help her, now, act!
can you not help? you can plant a tree give life a chance!
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dunnocks and robins
paired up and nesting
winter moths active
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AILEEN
Aileen, my dearest darling wife
Nigh 50 years bar a month.
Half a century she filled with love.
Aileen, wife and a loving caring mum.
Her face a smile, a shining sun!
The pain she suffered in her later years
Caused one and all to shed many tears
Her failing heart was her secret
Not revealed till it was too late
She shouted Mick and with arms held wide
Stood up, fell, and sadly died.
To all who tried to bring Aileen back
In endeavors, you did not lack.
The family thank you for doing your best
Aileen suffers no more and now lays at rest.
With broken hearts, we will say goodbye
Perhaps the world will hear us cry
Tears of sadness, tears of love
For Aileen, mother, grand and great,
Daughter, sister, aunty, and a wife,
Never ever to be forgotten Aileen, my life...
The weeping, sobbing never done,
Our kids will always miss their mum
I write with tears flowing down my cheeks
Every morning my hurting peaks
No longer will I hear her hear call my name
Mick, Mick I'm in pain.
It broke my heart then, again and again.
Now my heart is broken beyond repair
And I know for you all your heartfelt despair
Aileen, mum, Nana, sister, daughter, aunt, in-law, wife, and friend.
Her spirit will be with us all,
Even now she is at my side as these words I write.
If my tears were words, they would fill a library
No, not 'a' library, everyone in the world!
All our tears, our hearts unfurled, oceans of emotion.
Her love for us all, her heartfelt devotion,
Never to be forgotten, Aileen!
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IN THE PLAYGROUND
by
LIZZY DUNKS
Juniors bulling readily.
Wind howling loudly.
Infants spying quietly.
Dogs barking roughly.
Mums watching cruelly.
Cats purring softly.
Branches falling swiftly,
By Lizzy Dunks aged 7
Leslie Manser Primary School, Lincoln, UK
Lizzy a grate niece in-law of mine; wrote, and had this poem published in an anthology of rhymes* all of which were written by children from the age of 11 down. Sadly Lizzy died of leukaemia at the tender age of 9, An immense loss to her family, and her talent an immense loss to the world!
*Anthology title will be added as soon as possible, apologies!!
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another day of
fickled winter weather
local extinctions
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swallows housemartins
once summertime sky wonders
screaming swifts missed
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midday a blackbird
feeding on a fat ball
look a butterfly
a large cabbage white
will it find a partner
blackbird eating fat
bluetit checking out
a bird box mid-summer
ravenous starlings
woodpigeons on the
fat balls also taking grain
the garden in bloom
house sparrows taking
aphids off the roses
ladybirds not one
one joy i've noted
indoors no flies at all
no nighttime moths sad
N.B. anon
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flora washed clean
by torrential rain
extinction event
one inch of rain
in one hour
fledglings starve
my eyes wide open
watching helplessly
mass extinctions real
swallows swift martins
gone at my location
the sky washed clean
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o the joy of
summer sunshine on my back
yet i drown in sweat
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this summer heatwave
the death of so much life
we are all guilty
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still hearing nature
screaming for much-needed help
mass extinctions real
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