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Fever  ·  4007 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What is Your Favorite Poem?

For All

Ah to be alive on a mid-September morn fording a stream barefoot, pants rolled up, holding boots, pack on, sunshine, ice in the shallows, northern rockies.

Rustle and shimmer of icy creek waters stones turn underfoot, small and hard as toes cold nose dripping singing inside creek music, heart music, smell of sun on gravel.

I pledge allegiance

I pledge allegiance to the soil of Turtle Island, and to the beings who thereon dwell one ecosystem in diversity under the sun With joyful interpenetration for all.





StJohn  ·  4007 days ago  ·  link  ·  

This is a lovely poem - thanks for sharing. It almost makes me want to go outside again, but I'm usually disappointed at how difficult it is to get a glass of wine whilst fording a stream.

Fever  ·  4007 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Gary Snyder wrote this.