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Up the Garden Path [a response to JD's "Like a Night in the Forest"]
The question posed in your last line is a most important one and is the subject one of my pet hates.
I am frequently preached at – rather, gaslit - by my local authority and various entities, about being “environmentally responsible”.
Yet the very same so and-sos encourage my missus to to put the so-called “waste”, produced by weeding and thinning out flowers, into a special green bin, to ...
Tuesday 22nd July 2025 11:05 am
Song of the Earth
My spirit’s faint, of joy and beauty starved,
Of late, this grieving heart has known but gloom,
So, prayers I’ll say on ancient Anglezarke,
And dance with Gaia, to a brighter tune,
Where soars my soul, between earth sea and sky:
Fear’s put to flight, in nature is true strength.
A lark’s song celebrates up there on high
The beauty of our vast horizon’s length,
The grandeur o...
Tuesday 19th November 2024 6:51 pm
Sonnet (On the sad news of the demise of the Siden House in the Black Country)
Oh, would it were the happy truth: consigned
Unto the flames of hell, that Crooked House,
Where Mammon’s ermined scarlet whores decide
Which trough they’ll dig with snuffling filthy snouts!
Those arsonists so proudly pose in food
Pantries, yet loudly praise the firefight;
Rapacious brutes, they Gaîa do denude
Of hope; they’re criminals, who firelight.
Rich ...
Tuesday 8th August 2023 2:39 pm
Mersey Poets Perform Under Gaia
Some 'Quality of Mersey' poets after performing their odes to our beautiful Earth/Gaia installation by Luke Jerram at Liverpool Anglican Cathedral last Monday. This event was part of the Mersey River Festival 2019.
Photo from left to right: Ruthie Adamson, Jenny Hesketh, Barry Woods, Lucy Pickavance, Michelle Wright and Ali Harwood.
Wednesday 29th May 2019 1:29 pm
Water
MAN: In so short a time
I saw a future
Flow
Created
From the formless waters
Born
From the darkness
The way begins
All words are water
Flowing
GAIA: From my innermost being
I gave abundance!
My words flow from the mountain top
My words give succour to the land
My words are the waters of the sea
PRIEST: The ...
Wednesday 4th October 2017 4:30 pm
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