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Appalachian Elegy

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  • Nast Huertahas quoted5 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 quoted5 years ago
    bitter cold buries secrets

    put away

    all promises of resurrection
  • Dulce G.has quoted5 years ago
    take 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 quoted5 years ago
    they once danced

    dreamed themselves
  • Dulce G.has quoted5 years ago
    renegades 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 quoted5 years ago
    sunken 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 quoted5 years ago
    fly 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 quoted5 years ago
    in the face of white cold

    see past this

    all-surrounding

    whiteness

    that beyond

    there is hope

    that sorrow ends
  • Dulce G.has quoted5 years ago
    fierce 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 quoted5 years ago
    there are altars

    in these hills

    organic monuments

    calling the sacred

    rock on which to stand

    and know divine presence
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