May 27, 2025
As those who follow this blog know, the theme has shifted to how the creative arts can guide and ground us during these turbulent times around the world, but especially in regard to the current administration in the United States. Resistance and Resilience are the key guidelines.
Over the weekend, I posted a poem entitled “Liberty” by poet Susan Luther, found here: https://spirit-reflections.org/blog/. Poet E. Reid* responded:
Response
I stand for love.
I sit at my work in love.
I lie down on the ground of love.
All my words come from love.
Even as
the ground around me turns to hate
my ground remains love.
So does yours.
If enough of us stand in love
and for love
and sit and lie down for love
our ground will continue to grow
the fruits of the spirit—
and bloom gardens
instead of battlefields.
We will share bread
and goodwill with each other.
Those who came before
offered us this ground
sometimes through battle
sometimes through peace.
We must offer beloved ground
to each other
to the stranger
to our children.
What do you stand for?
Please watch this space for the next posting of a poem by E. Reid.
*Born in Eastern Washington and raised in Southern California, E. Reid has lived and worked in North Alabama and Southern Middle Tennessee since 1998. She and her partner live in an old wood home with a menagerie of critters surrounded by green hills. An alumna of the Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing in Louisville, Kentucky, E. Reid writes fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction.
Creating together,
Rosemary
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