New poem by TCBH resident poet

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I pledge allegiance

 

I pledge allegiance to myself

And to the wonder of my birth.

I pledge allegiance to my health

And to cherish my own worth.

I pledge to serve my conscience

No matter where it leads

And to maintain my defense

Against hypocrisy of creeds.

With my hand above my heart

I pledge to serenade my soul

And learn to amplify my part

Just like a singing bowl

In which my truths are held secure

Against allegiances to greed.

I pledge myself to tend

To both the flower and the seed.

And to call all life around me

My equal and my peers

And may the great Earth ground me

For the balance of my years.

Authors Website: https://garylindorff.wordpress.com

Authors Bio:

Gary Lindorff is a poet, writer, blogger and author of five nonfiction books, three collections of poetry, "Children to the Mountain", "The Last recurrent Dream" (Two Plum Press), "Conversations with Poetry (coauthored with Tom Cowan), and a memoir, "Finding Myself in Time: Facing the Music". Lindorff calls himself an activist poet, channeling his activism through poetic voice. He also writes with other voices in other poetic styles: ecstatic, experimental and performance and a new genre, sand-blasted poems where he randomly picks sentence fragments from books drawn from his library, lists them, divides them into stanzas and looks for patterns. Sand-blasted poems are meant to be performed aloud with musical accompaniment.


He is a practicing dream worker(with a strong, Jungian background) and a shamanic practitioner. His shamanic work is continually deepening his partnership with the land. This work can assume many forms, solo and communal, among them: prayer, vision questing, ritual sweating, and sharing stories by the fire. He is a born-pacifist and attempts to walk the path of non-violence believing that no war is necessary or inevitable.