Appalachian Elegy
- Nast Huertahas quoted4 years ago
Folks from the backwoods were certain about two things: that every human soul needed to be free and that the responsibility of being free required one to be a person of integrity, a person who lived in such a way that there would always be congruency between what one thinks, says, and does. - Dulce G.has quoted4 years ago
bitter cold buries secrets
put away
all promises of resurrection - Dulce G.has quoted4 years agotake the
hand-me-downs
make do
no culture of poverty
claiming lives here
we a people of plenty
back then
work hard
know no hunger
grow food
sew clothing
build shelter
moonshine still
wine from grape
we a marooned
mountain people
backwoods souls
we know to live on little
to make a simple life
away from manmade
laws and boundaries
spirit guides teach us
offer always
the promise
of an eternal now - Dulce G.has quoted4 years agothey once danced
dreamed themselves - Dulce G.has quoted4 years agorenegades roam here
fugitive longing
darker than night
glorious black bodies
enslaved
with no hope of
belonging
to land
in this new world
of white freedom and flight
some live to die
sleep with no dreams
some find ways
to unravel mysteries
threads of power and domination
a palimpsest of greed
they hope
and hope
for change
find homeplace inside
letting anguish bleed out
make way for new life - Dulce G.has quoted4 years agosunken faces
a collapsing gray
shutting down
still bodies
standing in doorways
sitting on
falling-down front porches
on crooked steps
cold now
bone upon bone
outsiders come
taking land
taking life
stripping removing destroying
mountains ravished
leaving in this corrupt wake
souls grieving
earth laments
cries out loud
that justice may come
that it is never too late - Dulce G.has quoted4 years agofly high
dreaming bird
higher and higher
on the wire of time
no road blocks
no stopping
to think through
why wings flap
what makes
the worthy soar
only this
pure heaven
right now
sky high - Dulce G.has quoted4 years agoin the face of white cold
see past this
all-surrounding
whiteness
that beyond
there is hope
that sorrow ends - Dulce G.has quoted4 years agofierce unyielding winds
pressing pushing
against window glass
trees swaying
branches falling
chaos warning
of danger
she does not want
to cut them down
she does not want
to fear those mighty oaks
standing guard
for more years
than can be counted
strong roots sustaining life
holding back
the rush of time
let earth testify
they have the
right to fall
when life comes to an end
to move
in harmony with fate - Dulce G.has quoted4 years agothere are altars
in these hills
organic monuments
calling the sacred
rock on which to stand
and know divine presence
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