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Jose Weto's avatar

This is the most beautiful and searingly relevant poem I've ever read. Thank you Caitlin. Translating it into Spanish for my friends. The awakening is happening. Light and love and life win.

Vin LoPresti's avatar

Nature is not a godless god

But rather a collective intelligence without bias

Which loves all existence unabashedly

As long as it serves the whole

Waste not your time with tone-deaf cloud beings

But sing the music of the giant Sequoias.

Joseph's avatar

Remembering that the "money God" that destroys Gaza and Southern Lebanon is the same money God that destroys the forest/ocean around us. In many ways, its the same fight.

Susan T's avatar

ignoring our climate and starting wars are how they make money. it is exactly the same fight. money money money.

Amaterasu Solar's avatar

We can solve for that "money God..."

EAT! – Energy accounting tokens (article): https://amaterasusolar.substack.com/p/eat

Chuck Nasmith's avatar

I leave tomorrow to camp at the beach in Maine for a week. No internet. No "How many has Israel killed today". No news except high and low tide waves giving the happening now report against the rocks and shoreline. TY Tim and Caitlin for a great send off with this. Keep on all. I hope on my return home to hear Israel has been canceled and there is peace.

Hassan Al-Mosawi's avatar

Peace be upon you by Gaza and Jerusalem - Honour and victory are the allies of the axis of resistance and its allies, and humiliation and shame are for the axis of evil, Epstein Class (USA, Britain, France, Turkey, Qatar, UAE, NATO Governments, New Nazi, Masonic, Zionist and Israel) and its allies.

dale ruff's avatar

Born to Run: the first freedom

We were born

not with roots

but feet.

Not buried in one obedient place,

not nailed to the soil

by blood, border, name,

or the old commands of the dead.

The tree must endure

where the seed fell.

It must take the drought,

the axe,

the fence built around it.

But we—

we were given ankles, knees,

a hunger in the horizon,

a road inside the body.

To leave is not betrayal.

To flee is not cowardice.

To run is sometimes

the first honest prayer

of the living.

Every exile carries a country

under the tongue.

Every migrant carries a doorway

in the chest.

Every wanderer proves

that the soul was never meant

to be a prison with a flag.

Our freedom is not abstract.

It is not written first in books

or granted by kings.

It begins when the foot lifts

from the ground

and says:

No.

Not here.

Not this cage.

Not this hunger.

Not this fear.

Not this life chosen for me.

We have feet

because the world is unfinished.

We have feet

because home can become a wound.

We have feet

because beyond the hill,

beyond the border,

beyond the smoke of the ruined city,

there may be bread,

there may be kindness,

there may be another name

for tomorrow.

The tyrant loves roots.

Roots can be mapped, taxed, watched,

cut off.

But feet are dangerous.

Feet remember the road.

Feet make slaves into fugitives,

peasants into rebels,

children into explorers,

the hunted into survivors.

So bless the footstep.

Bless the boat, the train,

the desert path,

the mountain pass,

the trembling knock

on a stranger’s door.

We are not trees.

We are the animal

that walks away.

Ahenobarbus's avatar

I was enjoying it until, "the cold blue eyes

of the empire of whiteness"

Racial struggle is not art. Racial struggle will always be used to divide and weaken the slaves. You have been told that racial struggle is the essence of leftism by the same racial supremacists carrying out the genocide. Most blue eyed, white individuals are not rich and are as powerless as you are.

I've been writing poetry quite a lot lately too. It feels like the last artistic refuge away from Zio Imperialism. Keep it up.

Jim S's avatar

Thank You Caitlin

Amaterasu Solar's avatar

About that "money god..." Humbly I offer this, and encourage You to read the saction after the graphic with My definition of "money..."

The Ghost Gun Scam (article): https://amaterasusolar.substack.com/p/the-ghost-gun-scam

Jeff Syrop's avatar

Truly beautiful poem, Girl Jesus.

Diana van Eyk's avatar

And we can be both all at the same time -- too busy and broke, but aware still.

We need to make ourselves heard and hearable, and to care deeply -- for our planet, all lives and all the suffering humans too, at home and all around the world.

Selene's avatar

Perfect. Do you have a book of poetry? If not, I’d love to have one. 🌷🌷🫍