Poetry

by Linh Nguyen Positive Feedback ever wonder why we destroy something so beautiful? that river where our blood runs beating in measured harmonies to life surrounding, singing in glory that forest of trails where we once walked joy escaping through quaking leaves, each footstep lighting stories, inspiring movies, music, and poetry that ocean of our origin, waters of wisdom of foam-swept jewels and deep blue treasures, adorn with coral reefs and ancestral anemones, ...

by Angela Nolan What will they tell the children? In the generations to come. Amerika is festering And the world festers with her. The wound is old but the boils and pus are worsening. Blood is pooling just below the surface – a dark purple snake. The orange one will quicken the fall But it was coming anyway. We eat too much, we consume too much, we waste too much. ...

Earth At Risk, sponsored by Fertile Ground Institute in November 2014, featured many of today’s most important activists and thinkers in environmentalism, anti-capitalism, anti-imperialism, anti-colonialism, radical feminism, and anti-racism. With keynote speakers Derrick Jensen, Alice Walker, Vandana Shiva, Chris Hedges, and Thomas Linzey; plus multiple panels, the event was full of insightful and inspiring discussions. Besides Derrick Jensen, Deep Green Resistance members Saba Malik, Kourtney Mitchell and Doug Zachary spoke on panels; and Dominique Christina performed two sets of her award winning slam poetry. ...

by Christopher L. Calkins The Seed of Greed Greed! Where does it come from? It comes from a seed. Could it really be a dirty little seed? The seed of greed! How can this be in the heart of humanity? I look out on the horizon, it seems so far to me, surrounded by a society infested with the seed! The seed of greed. Who? What? No, not me! It is that dirty little seed. ...

Michelle Jones / Deep Green Resistance We are not this culture. We are not this society. The culture has hijacked us. This society has imprisoned what we really are. We are water, and land. We are the space between the trees. We are the wind and the leaves. We are sound. We are the energy between glances of animals, running, chasing, hiding, playing. We are animals, laying on soil, sitting in soil, walking on soil. The soil informing us of what ground is. What our bodies are. ...

Jennifer Murnan / Deep Green Resistance Colorado Thin Blue Line Flagged two times Curious? “The Line is what police officers protect, the barrier between anarchy and a civilized society, between order and chaos, between respect for decency and lawlessness.” Blue line Slap down Smack down Dogs dripping blood Mace Tear gas Pepper spray Pushing Violating your way Breaking past Red and Black and Brown and Even White Protectors Faces Bodies ...

by Unblind There once was a little boy, who lived in the Middle East. His family had been murdered when bombs rained in the streets. He huddled silent upon the rubble of his crumbled home, Suffering, starving, terrified, he survived there on his own. Fire lit skies from ravaged landscapes burned into the night, But when the smoke clouds cleared a lonely star came into sight. Deep from within his broken heart, the boy wept out his wish; ...

by Unblind I love you Dad, I really do. So, it kills me to feel this way about you. There was a time when we could converse, talk late into the night about the universe. We shared stories, sipped drinks and poked fun at the world, we agree on so much it was great to be heard. Your opinions were from life and they were your own, you gave me advice when I felt so alone. ...

Calliope Braintree is the protagonist of two novels by Anne Pyterek, whose work explores rape culture from both the personal and planetary perspective. The poem River’s Song was “written” by Calliope as a tribute to the Chicago River, poisoned and channeled by industrial humans but still living a life of her own. I am the Atoms and the Space in between, the Unmanifested heard, felt, smelt, tasted and seen I am Anger and Forgiveness all in one stream. For I am the Source, ...