[Dialogue] [Oe List ...] Some poems
Joy Bonafield via Dialogue
dialogue at lists.wedgeblade.net
Mon Jan 30 09:04:45 PST 2017
Jim,
Many thanks for these poems that speak so clearly -- we shared them
with our UCC congregation.
Minneapolis progressives met at Shiloh Temple (a Black church) on
Saturday, Jan. 28. They hoped for 1,000, but 2,000 people showed up from
ISAIAH churches (known as Gamaliel in Chicago) this weekend, along with our
Sen. Al Franken and Mayor Betsy Hodges to address our most pressing issues
at the state level with empowered force. Wonderful to see Latinos show up
along with many Muslims, Catholics, Jews, Protestants, black and white all
coming together on the issues of affordable health care, affordable
housing, increasing the minimum wage, quality early education for all,
providing sanctuary for people threatened by deportation, and more. Such
solidarity among these groups I've never seen before! Local congregations
coming together in an ecumenical way -- this is the face of hope in these
times.
--Joyce Bonafield-Pierce
bonafieldcohort26 at gmail.com
On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 12:19 PM, James Wiegel via Dialogue <
dialogue at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
> truth in re-posting. The two poems I sent around came to me on Facebook
> this morning. From Elizabeth Landers Engleman and Carol Poole. So nice to
> have friends . . .
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> *From:* NANCY TRASK Owner <nancy50273 at centurylink.net>
> *To:* James Wiegel <jfwiegel at yahoo.com>; Order Ecumenical Community <
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> *Sent:* Sunday, January 29, 2017 9:58 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [Oe List ...] Some poems
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> Thank you, Jim. These poems add to my armor as I pray for courage. I
> will share them with my local groups.
> Nancy Trask
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> *From: *"James Wiegel via OE" <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
> *To: *"Colleague Dialogue" <dialogue at wedgeblade.net>, "Order Ecumenical
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> *Sent: *Sunday, January 29, 2017 9:05:34 AM
> *Subject: *[Oe List ...] Some poems
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> "TWO POEMS FROM THIS MORNING
>
> A Ritual to Read to Each Other"
> by William Stafford
>
> If you don't know the kind of person I am
> and I don't know the kind of person you are
> a pattern that others made may prevail in the
> world
> and following the wrong god home we may miss
> our star.
>
> For there is many a small betrayal in the mind,
> a shrug that lets the fragile sequence break
> sending with shouts the horrible errors of
> childhood
> storming out to play through the broken dike.
>
> And as elephants parade holding each
> elephant's tail,
> but if one wanders the circus won't find the
> park,
> I call it cruel and maybe the root of all cruelty
> to know what occurs but not recognize the fact.
>
> And so I appeal to a voice, to something
> shadowy,
> a remote important region in all who talk:
> though we could fool each other, we should
> consider—
> lest the parade of our mutual life get lost in the
> dark.
>
> For it is important that awake people be awake,
> or a breaking line may discourage them back to
> sleep;
> the signals we give — yes or no, or maybe —
> should be clear: the darkness around us is deep.
>
>
> Deeply grateful to Helen Gerhardt for this: ............................
> I know, I know
> If you could go back you
> would walk with Jesus
> You would march with King
> Maybe assassinate Hitler
> At least hide Jews in your basement
> It would all be clear to you
> But people then, just like you
> were baffled, had bills
> to pay and children they didn’t
> understand and they too
> were so desperate for normalcy
> they made anything normal
> Even turning everything inside out
> Even killing, and killing, and it’s easy
> for turning the other cheek
> to be looking the other way, for walking
> to be talking, and they hid
> in their houses
> and watched it on television, when they had television,
> and wrung their hands
> or didn’t, and your hands
> are just like theirs. Lined, permeable,
> small, and you
> would follow Caesar, and quote McCarthy, and Hoover, and you would want
> to make Germany great again
> Because you are afraid, and your
> parents are sick, and your
> job pays s@$t and where’s your
> dignity? Just a little dignity and those kids sitting down in the highway,
> and chaining themselves to
> buildings, what’s their f@*#king
> problem? And that kid
> That’s King. And this is Selma. And Berlin. And Jerusalem. And now
> is when they need you to be brave.
> Now
> is when we need you to go back
> and forget everything you know
> and give up the things you’re chained to
> and make it look so easy in your
> grandkids’ history books (they should still have them, kinehora)
> Now
> is when it will all be clear to them.
> ~Danny Bryck
>
>
>
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