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From: Tomás Ó Cárthaigh <<a href="mailto:tomasocarthaigh@yahoo.com">tomasocarthaigh@yahoo.com</a>></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">Subject. Videopoem: For the
Corncrakes Sake and Mankinds</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 20pt;">For the Corncrakes Sake and Mankinds<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" align="center"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lETjQBK2cwQ" target="_blank">Play the Poetry Video</a><br>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lETjQBK2cwQ" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style=""><img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/Ron/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/msohtml1/01/clip_image001.jpg" style="min-height: 150px; width: 198px;" title="For The
Corncrakes Sake and Mankinds" width="120" border="0" height="90"></span></span></a><br>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lETjQBK2cwQ" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lETjQBK2cwQ</a></p>
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The corncrake has been saved more or less by efforts of the "Save the
Corncrake" movement in Ireland,
and the RSPB in the UK.
The bird, its distinctive sound once common, is now only in a few hinterlands,
one of the main ones in the callowlands around Banagher in County Offaly, and
down into Lusmagh and also Meelick and Clonfert in neighbouring Galway, where
the overflows of the River Shannon created the callowland so suitable to its
habitiat.<br>
<br>
A series of initiatives, coupled with grants, caused changes to the way farmers
done thier farming to take account fo the needs of the corncrake, and numbers
are stabilising.<br>
<br>
The poem asks, if we made the same efforts to accommodate our fellow man as we
do for a bird whose song is not nice, feathers are not useful, and cannot be
eaten, would the world not be a better place?</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" align="center">~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Poem ~~~~~~~~~~~~ <br>
<br>
Its song is not of an angels chorus<br>
Nor its feathers for placing on a hat<br>
Nor its flesh fit to be on a plate<br>
And yet, for all that<br>
The corncrakes call and its demise<br>
Has reached into our heart<br>
For maybe our loss of oneness with nature<br>
It has made us aware, or made a good start.<br>
<br>
And so today in open field<br>
Where they cut from the edge before<br>
They now cut from the centre out<br>
So the corncrake can once more<br>
Be heard, above the sounds of evening<br>
By all, for the coming years<br>
For it is through carelessness of man<br>
That nature disappears.<br>
<br>
Imagine: if we done for fellow man<br>
Who little for we might care<br>
And adapted the way we live our lives<br>
To give him a chance where<br>
He might prosper, yet we don't lose<br>
It would be a wondrous thing<br>
A lot less trouble would be in the world<br>
That would be a song to sing!<br>
<br>
Alas the humble cry of the corncrake<br>
Was not saved out of love:<br>
It took grants of free money<br>
To make man rise above<br>
His lust for gain: and so with man<br>
Unless God gives a financial grant<br>
To man to take care of his fellow man and adapt<br>
Prospects for peace are scant!</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong><span style="color: rgb(102, 143, 90);">"a person with a good book is never alone... a writer
until they've written one is never at peace"</span></strong><strong> </strong></p>
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