Unselfishly to love and care for another
From infant to an adult fully grown
To nurture and protect makes a good mother
To train and share with children of your own
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The trees and fields are bare
But in the woodland glade
Some greenery is there
Instead of leafy shade.
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Phoenicians came to Iberia
Bringing metals and farming skills
From the coast to the interior
Up the Ebro into the hills
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Our blue planet, special-unique.
Goldilocks planet, home ground.
Far into space telescopes seek.
Nothing Earthlike has been found.
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Red is the colour of life giving blood
When haemoglobin is rich in O2.
The beating heart pumps it round in a flood.
The two lungs aerate it when it turns blue.
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Rain can come in torrents in showers or in spots
It fills the streams and rivers in dribbles or in lots
It soaks into the thirsty ground and makes the flowers grow
It’s fairly warm in summertime but in winter we have snow
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Spring is like youth or one’s childhood
The season of growth from a seed
Grasses grow and trees are in bud
Soils are covered with plant or weed
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Three hundred feet high the rocket stood.
All was quiet, the air was still.
A massive column, but move it could
It waited and waited until - - -
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I heard my younger brother
Saying “Dad, now give me on this day
All the money that I would have
When you die and pass away”
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6 miles of passages are dry
On Casterton Fell in June
Kirkby Lonsdale is close by
Ease Gill flows into the Lune
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