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Reasons to Give the World a Hug!

Martin exhorts us all, especially children, to give the world a great big hug, because a world without flowers, trees or water would be a lost world.

Martin Griffiths by Martin Griffiths
25 May 2023
in Climate Emergency, Environment, Poetry
Reading Time: 2 mins read
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Give the world a hug!

For without its flowers
There would be no bees.
And there would be no leaves
On the spring green trees.

And without the trees.
All cloaked in green,
There would be no birds
To be heard or seen.

And without water.
If the world goes dry,
There would be no ducks, nor dragonflies
With their paper wings and florescent eyes.

Nor butterflies,
Dancing on light.
To fill gardens and fields,
With earthly delights.

Without these things,
To love and pleasure,
What we would loose
Is beyond gold and treasure.

Without these things,
There would be no love, no life.
There is no planet B!
So let’s hug her tight.

Ed: Please share this with all the children you know. It’s their world we’re trying to save!

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Martin grew up on a small farm on the Herefordshire/Worcestershire borders where he seemed to spend all summer picking fruit and all winter chasing lost sheep. After College he set up a successful ceramics workshop in Cirencester but after travelling in Africa he took on a teaching post including Art, Drama and Sports before eventually becoming a Housemaster and wearing a suit and tie every day! He spent the next few years teaching mainly Art, Photography and Literacy part time at an FE College and combined this with being a Barman, Chef, Photographer and Food Writer. He moved back into full time teaching with posts in Greece, Switzerland and France, mainly teaching Literature, and now combines examination work for the International Baccalaureate with making Ceramics, Drawing and Writing. He remains Chair of Tewkesbury for Europe.

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