gaia
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I visit the river to annoint myself in it, To baptise and cleanse my soul and being, To allow it to wash over and through me, The river is my saviour It is my purifying salvation. As I feel the riverbed of silt and stone Shift beneath my feet and slowly bury them, I feel…
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We live a profligate lifestyle One of reckless waste And we wonder why the earth is in such a bad state We must live more considerately We need to be more impeccable With all the words we use And the thoughts we think And the way that we live. Live with open eyes and conscience…
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Flow like a stream amble and meander rage like a torrent be as wild as a rapid be transparent dance like tiny waves and roll in and roll out ebb and flow trickle peacefully or roar with a passion sustain life be life giving wash all things clean lap at the edges of life…
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I am tired of treading carefully And minding my p’s & q’s, Just in case I might start offending you, This life we see of suffering Hate and xenophobia Is a world that I detest,But you have never enquired Am I offended yet? Well yes I am offended when I see animals shot dead By…
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As the mushroom cloud is rising Humanity is dying You day you don’t want to hear this But you do nothing to fix it You say please no more ranting No fear mongering or tantrums But as a rebel with a cause I’ve no need to hear applause Whatever it takes to make you Take…
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Give me power What I want is power But not that dirty power But clean renewable power I don’t want to be showered In their nuclear power Or to face the doomsday hour So give me Earths green power. Give me power Give me wind turbine power Give me hydro power Not your dirty coal…
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Light shone through the trees as she ran, as she always did each morning. The rays blinked in and out of the dappled leaves, the branches and the trunks. She loved the softness of the loamy ground beneath her feet more so than the hard tarmac roads on which she used to run, risking shin…
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Hierro was a rugged man, slender with black hair and of Brazilian nationality but had native Indigenous descent. He had spent most of his life working farms for others but recently had been offered a lease to a farm that he could work for himself in the Amazonian rainforest. All he had to do was…
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We spend so much time Trying to tame nature And all other species We have forgotten to tame Our own wild nature and desire To take more than we need To destroy and exploit everything And to breed like a disease. Via:Daily Prompt: Tame
