A Farmer’s Veterans Day Poem

Veterans Day

history’s blood shed
brings us all to this moment
to choose a new dream

enemy revealed
as a man much more in need
of brotherly love

hardest row to hoe
is any row in a field
sewn only with weeds

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This poem is from my recently begun, new notebook, having submitted worthy and well-worked poetry from the other filled and falling apart notebooks in manuscript form. This poem is what is a series of linked “american” haiku or micropoetry.

If you like this poem check out my other Selected New Poems on my blog or consider the eBook or paperback purchase of my book, span (Rhizome Publishing 2011, 2012) which is a collection of Human Ecology* poems from 2000-2010.

*Human ecology is the subdiscipline of ecology that focuses on the human niche. Broadly speaking, it is a study of the relationship between humans and their natural, social, and built environments: anthropogenic biomes called anthromes within which are habitats connected by road networks to create what has been called technoecosystems.  Human Ecology has a wide territory and manifesting in geography, sociology, psychology, anthropology, zoology, and natural ecology. It is my hope that my poetics can be seen to have contributed to this spectrum by adding literature, biography and ontology to this list.

New Inspirational Article: The Spiritual Warrior and the Unknown

“There are spiritual warriors and then there are those who are at war.”
~Mark Cloudfoot

To me this is an important quote as it refers to the crux of a great life-change or transformational period of my life and epitomizes my introduction into the path of the spiritual warrior.

In the Toltec tradition the “unknown” is referred to as the “nagual”
and is seen as a part of our totality, our whole or greater Self.

The article The Spiritual Warrior and the Unknown can be read at my blog by following the link.