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SONG: Here I Am by Air Supply: https://youtu.be/B6rXBLRo_GU POEM:Rumi: Here I Am (excerpt): … In the silence surrounding every call of ‘Allah’Waits a thousand replies of ‘Here I am.’ QUOTE: Leo Tolstoy: Here I am alive, and it’s not my fault, so I have to try and get by as best I can without hurting […]
SONG: Sacrifice by Elton John: https://youtu.be/NrLkTZrPZA4 POEM:Muriel Rukeyser: The Book of the Dead: The Dam (excerpt): … All power is saved, having no end. Rises / in the green season, in the sudden season / the white the budded / and the lost… learning its power, conquering boundaries, able to rise blind in revolts of […]
SONG: Deed I Do by Ella Fitzgerald: https://youtu.be/Vj4gbky1QCU POEM: Heid Erdrich: The Theft Outright (excerpt): … Such as we were we gave most things outright (the deed of the theft was many deeds and leases and claim stakes / and tenure disputes and moved plat markers stolen still today . . .) We were the […]
Multiplied by Needtobreathe: https://youtu.be/0Gjx-ZQuQ_Y SONG: Multiply by Jamie Liddell: https://youtu.be/fkqIsSTWSsc POEM: Richard Michelson: More Money Than God (excerpt): … who has traced / the provenance, and picks up the pace, multiplying offers. And who now does my father’s bidding? Heaven’s coffers, perhaps, are for the destitute … SECOND POEM: Jane Hirshfield: Like two negative […]
SONG: Follow Me by Uncle Kracker POEM: Reina Maria Rodriguez: Memory of Water (excerpt): … whatever one does the others all follow, watching from the corners of their eyes … QUOTE: Albert Camus: Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead. Walk beside me… just […]