Nature Nurtures Anthology 2023
Since summer 2022, Spread the Word has collaborated with London Wildlife Trust, with Black Girls Hike CIC and London Youth for Nature Nurtures, a programme offering free creative and conservation workshops and opportunities for young people aged 16 – 25 in London. As part of the programme, young people were invited to contribute their creative expressions inspired by their participation in the project and by London’s nature and wildlife to an anthology. This beautiful anthology opens the window to young people’s perspective of the natural world in London and amplifies their voices.
Since summer 2022, Spread the Word has collaborated with London Wildlife Trust, with Black Girls Hike CIC and London Youth for Nature Nurtures, a programme offering free creative and conservation workshops and opportunities for young people aged 16 – 25 in London. As part of the programme, young people were invited to contribute their creative expressions inspired by their participation in the project and by London’s nature and wildlife to an anthology. This beautiful anthology opens the window to young people’s perspective of the natural world in London and amplifies their voices.
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In Decline<br />
Sadatu Futa<br />
a sparrow housed<br />
in the young of Dimo’s palms<br />
flutters its wings;<br />
not the readying pace to soar in blue,<br />
but the well of shadows<br />
vapid of the skies expanse.<br />
she knows,<br />
carrying the weight of wisdom,<br />
in the tenderness of girlhood,<br />
the murder of institutional crow<br />
blackening the sky.<br />
she reads,<br />
in the sparrow’s sullen motion<br />
the sweat of one’s feather<br />
after miles journeying unknowingly<br />
towards habitats dusted<br />
and devoured.<br />
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