Prayers
For The
Planet

The beauty of our planet is beyond question. Writing prayers of love and appreciation for The Earth and the perfection of nature is not only easy, it is a pleasure.

Prayer for the Birds

Bring back the birds
73 million gone from this land in 50 years
73 million songs, 73 million lives
Gone from gardens, fields, woods and seas
Bring back the birds
Please

Robins, chaffinches, starlings, thrushes, blue tits
Annihilation by pesticides, farming, cats,
Logging, climate-change
Humans and their kind
Greed, blind greed

Precision, harmony and music 
Flying like angels
Swimming like mermaids
Carried on waves of wind and water
Navigating by starlight

Where is the morning chorus?
Where is the murmuration?
Where is the song of the lark?
Where the swifts that fly to China?
The swallows to Africa?
They must return

Celestial acrobats
Soaring through air and water
Curving over clouds
What does it mean
‘Free as a bird’?
We caged them
Killed them
How did this happen?

Bring back the birds
73 million gone from this land in 50 years
73 million songs, 73 million lives
Gone from gardens, fields, woods and seas
Bring back the birds
Please

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