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Chapter 4 Animal Rights Illustrated Poems Animal rights makes for some good poem writing. Here are some illustrated poems I wrote with animal rights in mind. You are welcome freely to use these poems and illustrations to promote animal rights (and environment rights, nature conservation, etc). Have you tried your hand with your own animal rights poems - illustrated or not? Express what you want to say about animal rights with poetry. I started with limericks; they are relatively easy - and fun! Then I took a poem I like and adapted it with my own words: The Noble Unnumbered, below, based on Tennyson's The Charge of the Light Brigade. I dedicate it to all animal rights activists. Also see Writing Stories and Plays for Animal Rights and Blogging for Animal Rights. ILLUSTRATED POEMS 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! 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. 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. Earthling We are natives of Earth; we are Earthling. We say concord and conflict are sanguine. All peoples and creatures Are Earth's warming features. That's why we acclaim being Earthling. 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 them dough. “Silence!” their motto. They’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. 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! 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?” The species did crash very mighty. People worldwide kill over a billion pigs annually. Data: Livestock & Poultry. US Dept of Agriculture. 2014. ›› To Entries & Home |
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