compost
65Composed
God don't make no trash
A child is born in Bethlehem,
Redeemer of humanity;
His hunger is not satisfied,
Death descends at the age of three.
What a lot of rot, to decompose or not,
Got to do a lot to feed a garden rot,
Put crap in a pot and heat it til its hot,
Cart it, turn it over, but rot is what you got
Noone to preach forgiveness,
No redemption for our sins;
Noone to teach us acceptance,
No love of neighbor as thyself;
What a lot of rot, to decompose or not,
Got to do a lot to feed a garden rot,
Put crap in a pot and heat it til its hot,
Cart it, turn it alot, but rot is what you got.
What if Jesus had come and gone?
Just a bag of bones looking wan,
Hunger and want measured His life,
Disease and flies imposing strife;.
What a lot of rot, to decompose or not,
Got to do a lot to feed a garden rot,
Put crap in a pot and heat it til its hot,
Cart it, turn it round, but rot is what you got.
.Life is not recycleable,
The precious gift comes only once;
Unnourished plant n'er to blossom,
Heaven's flower to compost thrust.
Gerry Gilligan, copyright, 2010, All rights reserved.
a/k/a sligobay
Wake Up and Smell the Flowers
We Are The World
Are we the World or are we self absorbed?
Are we part of humanity or not???
Humanitarian Aid
- Welcome to the CARE Global Homepage
care is an international consortium of 12 member countries, dedicated to the worldwide reduction of poverty. care is one of the largest international relief and development organization, employing more than 12,000 staff worldwide. - UNICEF - The Convention on the Rights of the Child - CRC Turns 20 - 20 years of the CRC
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Save the Children, A Humanitarian Agency Helping Children Living in Poverty Around the World - UNICEF - The State of the World\'s Children: Special Edition Celebrating 20 Years of the Convention
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ONE BILLION Children in Poverty
More than we need
Swollen bellies and brittle bones
CocaCola and ice cream cones,
Malnutrition and scurvy swoops,
Happy Meals,fast food and Fruit Loops;
Filth, disease and open sores
Browse the wares at Disney Stores,
Scavenge dumps for scraps for living
X-Box, ipods, NO TIME for giving.
Gerry ^Gilligan, copyright 2010, All rights reserved.
HUNGER is the Leading Cause of Death
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the long road
REFUSE
Nature Preserve
Birds of pray for scraps of waste
Humans scrap for crumbs to taste,
Easy pickins for flocks of gulls
Scavengers to trash, the magnet pulls,
Preserve their nature to seek carrion
Human waste will always carry on,
Truckloads of food for feathered friends
Where the breadline never ends,
So like the aviary stock are man
Grabbing scraps where e're we can,
Diving in dumpsters to feed our needs
Hunters and gatherers whose hunger breeds.
dump
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The title caught my eye since I do gardening and have a compost bin in my back yard. There are several Scriptures that show the principle at work. I should look them up. I hope you promote this poem online. I'm glad you wrote it; it's quite thought provoking.
......you are striving to make this world a better place and through your passion, humility and intelligence you have succeeded brilliantly!
Wonderful hub, and a great poem. Wonderful photographs. God Bless You.
Thanks Don,Epi and Stars,Your kind and caring words of encouragement tell me to continue to publicize the reality of stavation.
I feel so impotent at the sheer magnitude of the global atrocity. Cheers.
A beautiful poem on an ugly subject. Quite an achievement!
Thank you NT- I tried to write an ugly poem filled with waste and rot to descibe man's inhumanity to man. My poem about leaves desribes their death as "picturesque" because of the colorful palette they create in the autumn. There is no beauty that I can perceive in the starvation of children.
habee Level 7 Commenter 21 months ago
Wow. this is powerful!