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Save The Planet & Your Heart

by Ian Whiteley

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Save The Planet & Your Heart

 

The seed drill not the fracking drill

Will serve our country best

The vegetables not the beasts we kill

Will be humanities test

Plague is never spread

from the fruits of the earth

when we pay such a heavy price

what is a carcass worth?

 

From cattle, bird or bat

There spreads human disease

Letting the gristle and the fat

Brin...

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Monday 22nd June 2020 2:14 pm

anti-fossil fuel   anti-fracking   day 22(83)   georgic form   going green   napowrimo2017   vegan   vegetarian

Bruises Of The Norman Yoake

by Ian Whiteley

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Bruises Of The Norman Yoake.

True Levellers dig over public field,
enclosed by hedgerows, cut by ditches deep.
Allow the earth to ultimately yield
its bounty – for you sow what you will reap,
a crop that’s fit for kings, the poor to keep.
This land is not the property of lords,
no matter it was seized by force of swords.

True Levellers defend the public field,
for nothing changes from...

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Saturday 12th April 2014 2:10 pm

true levellers   diggers   rhyme royal   gerrard winstanley   barton moss   anti-fracking

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