John Amsden

Cranmore, Yarmouth, Isle of Wight

Philosophical Statement: Some of the highest writ and greatest thought and philosophy has sought divination and hope in the simple understanding or compassion for all that lives. Much has been said of the wisdom and first importance of the vegan diet. Many foresaw the crucial mistakes we are making with the natural world and some of the results of our limitless cruelties to animals: the importance of a real observance of actions we take against life and how only a rationale of this consideration can fully resolve the spiritual dilemma besides the worldly malaise even increasing over the century.

Vegan assist

The lands lost
To brutal killing
The seas lost
Their light to life bleeding.
Most to vivisection toss'd

The skies
'times silent to the wings of yore
The air poisoned
Vapid vapour for the swift breeze.
These our sighs, terrible our cries.

Vivisection

The darkest of arts
In magic vile, obscene
The cruelest of acts
In torture: we must lean

A tottering, sickening,
Diseased, dying world,
Poisoned, near mindless
Or bared to herald

Scientific misnomer
Few flee obeisance
What e'er their beliefs fruitless
Invalid now conscience.

And the animals
Suffer as never before
In vile persecution:
For more...and yet more.

Fish In Space (for possible fish farms)

What strange worlds in oceans wide
In this machine I could bestride?
What wonders to my oceans yet to see
Encircling infinity.

Far and wide I cannot report
In the scientist's cruel hold caught.
Sore mistakes on earth they made
Treachery in this decade.

My voice is not so small
If seldom heard, our call
To be seen as we should be
That virgin spaces, could first see.

When?

Time lost
And so obscured
The passing cost
In what we feared.

A stranger orb
One stranger yet
None do adsorb
Riddles in planet to beget.

So now we question
As we destroy
In actions thespian
As with a toy.