At a Workshop with Bill Plotkin - Debora Hammond

Larry Robinson Lrobpoet at sonic.net
Wed Feb 3 09:05:53 PST 2016


At a Workshop with Bill Plotkin
 
            ~ a poem for the beloved
 
Called to the gate
chain-linked to the long wooden fence
running along the road into Commonmweal
 
I wanted to climb over you,
sit atop the highest bar,
remembering rodeos
and other echoes of the forgotten West
 
But instead I unhooked the chain
and sat beside you, inside the enclosed field,
drawn also by the standing poles
and the mysterious wires anchoring them
to the ground and to each other
 
Such a powerful symbol of our (post)modern industrial culture
 
Let me love YOU!
You too must be alive,
carrying within yourself
some longing for wholeness
underneath the layers of power, greed and domination
that have so distorted the promise of your gift
(thinking of Rilke and how the ore wants to go back into the mountain)
 
Just so, the wires and wirelesses of our global interconnection
want to reach into our deepest beings
to touch our deeper longings
 
Blessings and gratitude
to those heroes of our day,
setting free the dirty secrets
of our wars - against each other
and against the earth
 
The Chelsea Mannings and the Julian Asanges,
the Edward Snowdens,
the warriors of the West,
sparking our imaginations
with the fires of freedom
and the passion for justice, integrity and honor
 
Respect for ALL beings
 
May we discover, in the depths of our own beings,
the way forward into a world that celebrates
connection, wholeness, <>
ringing forth a song of joy
over the wires that weave in and out
of our lives here together
on this most glorious earth

	- Debora Hammond
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