Points for Peace on the Planet
Please note that these poems are reproduced without permission and are intended purely to share my pleasure in the following pages of poetry with my small group of interested friends. The words are so delicious and sensuous and smart and playful to this Granny, who grew up in the freezing gray world of Minnesota's rural prairie during the war. Why wouldn't we spend all our money on books of poetry?
Follow these links to other topics:
Uni-verse with Points on Power, Politics and Preservation
As a poet I hold the most archaic values on earth . . .
the fertility of the soil,
the magic of animals,
the power-vision in solitude,
the terrifying initiation and rebirth,
the love and ecstasy of the dance,
the common work of the tribe.
I try to hold both history and the wilderness in mind,
that my poems may approach the true measure of things
and stand against the unbalance and ignorance of our times.
— Gary Snyder
No tree has branches
so foolish as to fight amongst themselves.
~ Ojibwa Indian saying
