ThePowerofOne

Tag: mother earth

  • Earth Mother, Death Mother: A Poem for Our Times

    Bone breaks, blood spills.The dark cry of the world goes up, a column of smoke.Bullets. Women weep with their dead in their arms.The oceans also hold dead children,coral reefs like whitewashed tombstonesand whales no longer singing.The land perishes beneath our feet,harvests soon to vanish.Machines grind away, never stopping. There is no night here. The lights…

  • The Whole-Hearted Human Being

    I have a special interest in the non-canonical scriptures of the Christian tradition. Perhaps it’s because I chafe at the idea of orthodoxy and “right belief.” Almost always, those who insist there is only one way of seeing things become more violent than those whose view they oppose. We’ve seen this borne out many times…