Written by Rebecca Loveday
Choose peace on your plate!
Leave chickens to peckin’,
the cows to the grazing,
the lambs to the leaping,
and savour the flavour
of dinner that didn’t have
dreams in its sleeping.
Choose peace on your plate!
Leave pigs to the snuffling,
the fish to the swimming,
the geese to the flying;
embrace the fresh taste
of dinner that didn’t feel
fear in its dying.
Choose peace on your plate!
Love the grains and the greens,
the bountiful beans,
the fruits ripe for sharing;
devour the power
of dinner devised with
compassion and caring.
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Rebecca Loveday is a writer and early years practitioner from Portsmouth, an island city on the south coast of England, where she enjoys getting blown about on winter beach walks and spotting cool street art. Find her poems and stories for children and young people in Tyger Tyger Magazine, Haunted Words Press, Writing Magazine, Little Thoughts Press, Parakeet, The Dirigible Balloon and on her website: www.rebeccalovedayrhymelady.com
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