Guest Post: Michael White

Politics in American - Part II

the mind cannot grasp the enormity

of what lies beyond

our bounded vision

nor the splendor of the mysterious

which seems offensive to the small mind

humanity is not important

to the universe

the base elements

are our better nature

operating on universal necessity

not the tribalism

racism

sexism

homophobia

nationalism

xenophobia

which the pimps of death

push in the brutality of war

humanity will leave no trace

our few years

pass like the blink of the cosmic eye

while the great splendor of nature

the hawk’s cry

the waves breaking on the shore

roll on

unconcerned with humanities’ ill gotten fate

poetry opens to greater wholeness

in continual discovery

we awaken to this great presence

pulled forth from the somnambulism of nature

conscious for a moment

capable of contemplation

of recognition of great nature

then gone again