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December 10, 2024
Boycott Iceland (a sonnet)
By Gary Lindorff
The point is, killing whales isn't nice./If you're thinking of going there, please think twice.
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Boycott Iceland. The land of geysers and fire.
Were you planning on going there any time soon?
The volcanoes can wait and the skyr (pronounced skee-er)
There are much better choices for the honeymoon.
You see, they say that hunting whales is fair
Until at least 2029, and then we'll see.
There are plenty of Fin Whales and Minkes out there
Most of the experts and whalers agree.
Gee, I wonder what the hidden people think
The Huldufolk, dwarves, elves
(If you don't think they're real just go to this link)
(Click Here )
They might just take Iceland back for themselves.
The point is, killing whales isn't nice.
If you're thinking of going there, please think twice.
(Article changed on Dec 10, 2024 at 7:08 PM EST)
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.