In The Wings | Poetry of Mankh |Axisoflogic.com

        ”I don't know why nobody told you
        How to unfold your love
        I don't know how someone controlled you
        They bought and sold you”
                                             - George Harrison*

Rugged individualism haunts
capitalist landscam North America superimposed
on Native and First Nations lands.

Conquistadors and outsourced rugged individualism
haunt landscam Latin America superimposed
on Indigenous lands,
self-appointed leaders
out of thin ozone and for the trick
watch carefully
as out of a dark-magic hat
a self-appointed leader in Bolivia and
a self-appointed ambassador at the Venezuelan embassy in Brazil―
yet the Venezuelan army wouldn’t stand-down.

Ego, the king of self-appointments, haunts the world.

Yet the apple-trees battling climate changes
continue bearing fruit for all
and won’t stand-down,
nor will flocks of birds
spiraling the sky in unison,
nor the sated man spilling bills,
into the hungry man’s cup,
& you know who else won’t stand-down?
... wait for it ... stand-up comedians,
nor Bob Marley, Peter Tosh and The Wailers singing “Get Up, Stand Up”

The swarms of leaderless movements
in umpteen countries won’t stand-down,
nor will the vultures
circling patiently
for the feasting
on ego’s remains.

* “George Harrison decided to write this song when he studied "I Ching", the Chinese book of changes. One of the concepts there is that everything in the world is related. So, he opened a random book,
saw a random couple or words—which happened to be "gently weeps"—and began to write a song.” Complete lyrics here.

Mankh (Walter E. Harris III) is an essayist and resident poet at Axis of Logic. In addition to his work as a writer and small press publisher, he travels a holistic mystic pathway staying in touch with Turtle Island. See his new book of nonfiction with a poetic touch, “photo albums of the heart-mind”.

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