Naturebook

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Naturebook is a not-for-profit online gallery of artworks and writings inspired by nature. A 'naturebook' can be created by an individual, a group, a school or an event. You can add pictures, photos, videos, writings, blogs.

Naturebook is a conservation tool - a way of connecting people to ecology, and a message to the world. From photos of your garden, to scribblings on a riverbank, an ode to a stinging nettle or eulogy for a spectacled bear, our collected voices make a big noise for nature.

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REQUIEM FOR THE ABUUZU

I rise before you to attempt an oration,

in my hand I bear a libation of tears

for a village which by opening her eyes

was blinded, splintered like stoned glass,

and her children scattered in a race of rats.

 

I rise before you to mourn the Abuuzu.

Perhaps she was just a tree.

Perhaps she was a goddess.

Perhaps she never even stood there.

Yet for this village she stood in our square

for hundreds and hundreds of…

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Posted by Nnorom Azuonye on April 15, 2012 at 16:20

 
 
 

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