lindisfarne
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Mon May-29-06 04:02 PM
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A different pledge of allegiance ("For All" by Gary Snyder) |
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On Garrison Keillors "A Writer's Almanac" for Tues, May 30.
Poem: "For All" by Gary Snyder from The Gary Snyder Reader. © Counterpoint. Reprinted with permission. (buy now)
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.
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Mon May-29-06 04:07 PM
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1. Sounds very native-american, and very conscious. |
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I just use the regular one....but i take out a few words.
I pledge allegience to liberty and justice for all.
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Mon May-29-06 04:30 PM
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2. Magnificent. Snyder is one of our best poets. Just terrific. |
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Mon May-29-06 08:41 PM
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3. i like it well enough for a vote |
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