The Pear, The Charter and the Creeping Green

Huge thanks to Chris Mulhearn for sending me this ballad.

This is a wonderful piece of poetry that movingly lays out the competing impulses of the individualist and collectivist mindset; of the grounded nature of the Common Law at war with the incessant encroaching nature of legislation on our lives.

"Across the Darling Downs it went, across the Liverpool Plains, 
It swallowed up the open runs, it swallowed up the rains.
It thickened into walls of green that no man’s horse could breach, 
It took the land the selectors held and all beyond their reach."

A poignant piece of writing presenting the attack on the Constitutional principles from an Australian perspective. The symbol of the prickly pear (Opuntia stricta) is used very strikingly, creeping its way across Eastern Australia representing the 'devouring' nature of regulation on our freedoms.

Please find in the Resources section here...

https://www.commonlawconstitution.org/resources/the-pear-the-charter-and-the-creeping-green?c=heritage-creative-writing