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Poems, Limericks & Verse for Animal Rights Animal rights makes for some good poem writing. You are welcome freely to use these poems and illustrations (email me for larger versions), but have you tried your hand with your own animal rights poems - illustrated or not? Express what you want to say about animal rights with a poem and circulate it. I started with limericks; they are relatively easy poems - and fun! Then I took a poem I liked and adapted it with my own words: The Noble Unnumbered, below, based on Tennyson's poem The Charge of the Light Brigade. I dedicate it to all animal rights activists. Poem: Fat Animal We�re people living on fat. Don�t care a billion beasts get splat. Just want our grub and swallow it whole. Filling our bellies our only goal. We love fat, fat - and that�s that, that. Poem: Think Before You Do It Think before you bonk your wife. Every baby knackers life. Nature�s sick and subjugate, Pulverised by human weight. Dying forests, dying seas, the lot. So please don�t make another tot! Poem: Gastronomy Our numbers increase pathological, So we kill animals maximal, methodical. But should we be willing This ceaseless killing Just pandering lust gastronomical? Poem: We're Subjects of a Life We�re subjects of a life: Suffer pleasure and pain; What happens to us is highly main. Thus to you we make this solemn plea. Treat us how you would be treated. Unique beings in wondrous glory, Each a dearly loved story. Poem: The Animal Holocaust The animal holocaust came trooping by; Everyone turned an eager blind eye - to the horror. Endless bundles of bloodless meat; No one could say no to such a treat. Was a show of human power - and man�s darkest hour. Poem: How Many? How many lives in a fur coat? Many times your largest banknote; Add rejects not making the grade, Trashed by the friendly and pleasant fur trade. �Does society need to know? Cruel-blooded stats don�t make us dough. Silence! our motto. We're afraid Not to seem a friendly and pleasant trade." So coats are simply things to sell; The beasts in them �ne�er suffered hell�. Countless uncounted beasts betrayed, Cashed by the friendly and pleasant fur trade. Poem: Fuzzy Morality Evolution�s reach did spread Morality into everyone�s head; Countless aeons ago Out of Africa it did flow. Morality�s ultimate function: Its carrier�s genes� reproduction, Through caring-relations To companions and strangers. Moral aid now to all men is given. By some to animals it is also striven, Expanding the circle to great and small, Man�s moral evolution encompassing all. Yet we live in a world that is fuzzy: Everything indefinite, elusive, muddy; So never claim oneness and clarity: Fuzzy morality is all you get. Poem: Gaia There once was a planet with Gaia. Humanity wrecked it entire. It had species galore. None exist anymore. The whole was reduced to a pyre. Poem: The Human Flaw There once was a species almighty, Its actions were useless and flighty: Climate change or pollution (over population, environmental degradation, species extinction, resources depletion...) It ne�er made a solution; The species did crash very mighty. Poem: How Many Horses do People Kill? How many horses do people kill? Typically for our tummies to fill, From 60 million horses worldwide One twelfth a year get boiled, roasted or fried; Asses three million and mules half a million score. And down our throats each year plunge more and more. Poem: Earthling We are natives of Earth; we are Earthling. We say concord and conflict are sanguine. All peoples and creatures Are Earth-warming features. That's why we rejoice being Earthling. Poem: The Noble Unnumbered (Or The Charge of the Life Brigade, after The Charge of the Light Brigade, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.) I Life�s in need, life�s in need, Life�s in need deeply. Life�s a joy and wonder, T�is a crime of man to plunder. Forward, the Life Brigade! Our charge? To lend life aid. We�re the unnumbered! II Advance, the Life Brigade, To force man�s crime forbade. Abused, razed, eaten, Each living life suffers To oblivion or extinction. Life we love so well, Our foe flings all to hell! For life we thunder, We, the unnumbered! III Onward, the Life Brigade! Shall we strain dismayed �gainst overwhelming power To blot, wreck, destroy, devour? Ours not to be afraid. Ours not to be a swayed. Ours but to be a blade. For life we thunder, We, the unnumbered! IV Critics to the right of us, Critics to the left of us, Critics in front of us. Battered by words that sell, We dodge, foil, repel. But destroyers and slayers, Beware our scorning sabres. For life we thunder, We, the unnumbered! V Our dealings? We are fair, Violence we do forswear; Our morality is of care. We inspire, motivate And gladly labour, Rightly and strongly, To save all nature. For life we thunder, We, the unnumbered! Vl When will life�s glory fade? Not while fights the Life Brigade. Honour life�s glory, Magnificent wonder! Honour the Life Brigade, Noble without number! Poem: The Great Pig Sorrow A pig in despair tore his hair: �A billion dead pigs is unfair. It�s a porcine tragedy, A moral catastrophe. Doesn�t anyone fret or care?� People worldwide kill over a billion pigs annually. |