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The Chaos of Germinating Seeds<\/strong><\/p>\n Sometimes dreaming is so exhausting that you have to wake up<\/p>\n Punarm\u1e5btyu \u2014 dying again<\/p>\n Punarjanma \u2014 and again being born<\/p>\n This guest house of opening and closing one\u2019s eyes cover to cover<\/p>\n To get at the mental nutrition between its covers,<\/p>\n Milk does not come from bottles Nor does butter come from waxen sanitary coverings<\/p>\n Samurdra Manthan \u2014 churn the cosmic ocean of milk<\/p>\n and remember: all that is\u00a0 golden comes from super novas.<\/p>\n Love is neither easy nor natural Or, churning the cosmos to produce this moment.<\/p>\n And speaking of unconditional love Love is the sun darkened necks and chapped hands of farmers<\/p>\n The Forgotten<\/p>\n In our silicon chip facilitated frictionless virtual and virtueless worlds<\/p>\n Where lies can grow faster than the best genetically modified food grains<\/p>\n The chaos of germinating seeds<\/p>\n The arhythmic bursting of husks<\/p>\n Rice shaken and thrown into the air and the breeze takes the chaff<\/p>\n I\u2019m not singing about Shamballha Wisconsin corn<\/p>\n Arkansas Rice<\/p>\n Kansas wheat<\/p>\n We fly over these states without even saying a thank you<\/p>\n Or saying our grace<\/p>\n O, Embodiments of Sandburg-ian songs Let me take you into my body so that I can be To be strong enough to help America live up Hidden beneath the rotted roses and wreaths of heroes Democracy slumbers waiting to be reawakened, rediscovered<\/p>\n And reborn.<\/p>\n It is a field in which an enemy has sewn weeds<\/p>\n Do we have the Nazarene grace to separate the weeds from the tares?<\/p>\n Up\u0101ya\u2014 the skillful means<\/p>\n Can we grow ever larger to include<\/p>\n Martin\u2019s Dream<\/p>\n Gandhi\u2019s Dream<\/p>\n Malcolm\u2019s dream<\/p>\n Baldwin\u2019s dreams<\/p>\n Nina Simone\u2019s Dream<\/p>\n Zora Neale Hurston\u2019s Dream<\/p>\n Maya Angelou\u2019s Dream<\/p>\n Toni Morrison\u2019s Dream<\/p>\n And every other thinker on a list of banned books<\/p>\n In spite of the<\/p>\n Old time American revival tours<\/p>\n Militant generals using Jesus as a weapon<\/p>\n Churches used as MAGA gun emplacements<\/p>\n And the politicians who take our heroes and she-roes names in vain Let me be hot pepper and lemon juice squeezed into our culture\u2019s soured milk All milk products aren\u2019t sweet Let the sour, the spicy, and the bitter all abide together Another poem like this? This Groundhog\u2019s day contemplation I salute the epic, dramatic, and inevitable round of this lifetime Maybe we will finally learn compassion Murdering enough deer in the midst of amorous love sport<\/p>\n Bombing enough children in Ukrainian apartment complexes<\/p>\n Shooting enough people when they least expect it<\/p>\n And killing enough young men in our streets under the color of law<\/p>\n The proof of our living as sages would be the simple ability for us to live well together while still disagreeing.<\/p>\n We won\u2019t see anything new; And broken so many times<\/p>\n Samsara is Nirv\u0101\u1e47a Turn the wheel once twice then thrice And Democracy will appear on the earth<\/p>\n When it is no longer needed.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n (By Heidi Lindemann and Michael Perry)<\/p>\n (Image Credit 1: Sheila Machlis Alexander \/ Smithsonian Museum<\/a>) (Image Credit 2: Smithsonian Museum<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Chaos of Germinating Seeds Sometimes dreaming is so exhausting that you have to wake up Punarm\u1e5btyu \u2014 dying again Punarjanma \u2014 and again being born This guest house of opening and closing one\u2019s eyes Is like the\u00a0 opening and closing of a banned book that must be read and digested cover to cover To […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[16,6336,6337],"class_list":["post-26901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-democracy","tag-heidi-lindemann","tag-michael-perry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26904,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26901\/revisions\/26904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nIs like the\u00a0 opening and closing of a banned book that must be read and digested<\/p>\n
\nIt comes from the stars<\/p>\n
\nIt requires work like the churning of milk to separate butter<\/p>\n
\nIs like dreaming of churning butter
\nWithout knowing how to actually milk a cow.<\/p>\n
\nI sing of America<\/p>\n
\nO, Golden husk covered food grains that if thrashed could feed all of our tomorrows<\/p>\n
\nStrong enough to both plant
\nAnd harvest you<\/p>\n
\nTo all of its broken promises.<\/p>\n
\nMen and women who have offered their lives for a dream<\/p>\n
\nBut won\u2019t allow us to study about them in our schools<\/p>\n
\nAnd salvage what seems to have gone wrong
\nWith the grace of a mother making yogurt and curds<\/p>\n
\nAnd all sweet things aren\u2019t good for you<\/p>\n
\nTo form something new and unexpected.<\/p>\n
\nAnd another one?
\nand another one?<\/p>\n
\nLet me work Until I get it right.<\/p>\n
\nAnd humankind\u2019s role within it<\/p>\n
\nBy killing enough curlews blithely flying while melodiously singing<\/p>\n
\nWe\u2019ll only recognize the promises we have made to ourselves<\/p>\n
\nand Nirv\u0101\u1e47a is Samsara
\nWorlds woven together<\/p>\n
\nWe are a part of this world
\nand not apart from it<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Chaos-of-Germinating-Seeds-2-775x1024.jpeg\")
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