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What if Nature Stayed Sleeping?

Ger White·July 14, 2022

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What if Nature Stayed Sleeping?

written by: Ger White

What if nature turned over?
Just never bothered to rise
This would affect our survival
No light, no heat, no sunrise.
What if all birds stopped singing?
No chirrups or songs would we hear
If they staggered with feathers all hanging
How would this make us feel?
What if our dogs never woke up?
Just turned over and slept for a day
Not a bark or growl not a whimper
To enliven and brighten our ways
What if our cows never woke up?
Just slept for a week at a time
No milk would we see to whiten our tea
Without nature, our lives would decline
What if insects just lay there?
Drunken and dead and forlorn
Did not loosen our soil for us
How noiseless and dull be our world
What if hens never woke up
No eggs created or laid
What would we do for nutrition
If not even one egg was prepared
What if nature stayed sleeping?
Staggered in drunken dismay
Let’s be grateful she’s older and wiser
Than many a human today!

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Ger White - (Gerardine) grew up in West of Ireland. She inherited the skill of poetic rhyme from parents and writes to give continuity of traditional ways and for fun. She is published in Clarendon House Publications - Poetica Series, Sweetycat Press publications, Linden Press publications, Impspired publications. And her work appears in over 22 Anthologies. Her first book “Newspapers on the Floor, Poems on Irish Traditional ways” Amazon. Her second book “Celtic Visions – Poems from the Celtic World” Amazon and all bookshops.

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A textbook example of nominative determinism, Lou Storey has always been a storyteller, a fact well illustrated in his art and in his writing. His careers have reflected that as well, first as a creator of idea-based exhibitions for museums, and later as a psychotherapist employing narrative therapies. His art and his writing share qualities of rich texture and detail, examining our capacity to be absurd while allowing a measure of forgiveness for our foibles. Storey and his husband Steve retired in 2021 and moved from New Jersey to Savannah Georgia. “We love everything about Savannah, it is like a city that looks like a park and thinks it’s a small town. Best of all, we can grow bananas in the backyard!”

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