Eco Chamber | Poetry of Mankh |Axisoflogic.com

“I’m here to arrest everyone who’s sitting around very complacently and not doing anything to the save the world ecologically.”

                                                       - Lawrence Ferlinghetti

              Ecology:
how we relate with the surroundings
and all the beings we share the space with,
from moss to mountain to milky way
                  &
              Economy:
the processes of materials, labor and money
                 are
            intertwined.

           Balance and harmony essential.
           We need to save ourselves
           from an economy that rules the ecology.

The current system is bass ackwards
because “ecology” and “economy”
from the same root “house, village, clan”
but the locales have been overrun
with big-box behemoths and foreign financiers,
the world flooded
with echoes and cries,
the same voices over and over telling us
the same-o same-o what’s what,
the same voices over and over
suffering under the weight
of the same voices telling us
the same-o same-o what’s what,
the horizontal linear news-ticker crawl
like some fake sun endlessly crawling the horizon,
never rising,
never setting,
always the same linear thinking
and the distraction
from actually listening
to the sounds the village makes
or the silence the village makes
at night when the people dream
so they see no, hear no, speak no news-ticker where
always the next sale, the next deal, the next special
     but the village is not for sale,
        the natural surroundings
               intertwined
with the way we eat and drink and sleep and dream
              and awaken
     from this nightmare of a reversed system,
     awaken remembering the gifts as close
     as a hand held open
     holding a bunch
     of ripe strawberries silently speaking,
                                          Here, have some.....!

Mankh (Walter E. Harris III) is an essayist and resident poet at Axis of Logic, as well as a correspondent-poet for the WUSB 90.1FM radio segment “Radical Words”. In addition to his work as a writer and small press publisher, he travels a holistic mystic pathway staying in touch with Turtle Island. His website is here.

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