Pronouns in B Sharp | Poetry of Mankh |Axisoflogic.com

We’re all one but try sleeping with a porcupine.
We’re all one but try using an umbrella in 50-mph winds.
We’re all one but my aura is my first line of self-defense.

E pluribus unum – "Out of many, one"
a form of colonization
but i think they reversed it*
because out of The One come the many . . .
I Me My
He Him His
She Her Hers
Them
We Us
Anima Animus
“I am what I am”
“I am yours, you are mine, you are what you are”
“I am because we are”
“I'm in you, you're in me”
Tat Tvam Asi – "I am that too" or “Thou art that”
“I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together”
“We are stardust
We are golden
And we've got to get ourselves
Back to the garden”

We’re like 75% water so the garden needs us,
and we’re made of air and breathing,
and that spark
of unseen,
and
“Our bones, flesh and blood are made up of the metals,
liquids and minerals of the earth, and everything
on this planet is made up of the same things.”

The dice get rolled birthing many combos
all from two dice
yet only one hand rolling.

What is the sound of one hand rolling dice?

What is the sound of one hand holding another
and another and another . . . . .

Why would you label yourself a pro noun
— a professional object or thing —
when you can be a verb
actively doing something,
reaching out
with helping hands.

NOTES:
* “The phrase is similar to a Latin translation of a variation of Heraclitus's tenth fragment, "The one is made up of all things, and all things issue from the one.” See here.

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quotes, in order:

Popeye
Crosby, Stills & Nash, from “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes”
a translation of “ubuntu” from African Bantu language
Peter Frampton, from “I’m In You”
translation of a Sanskrit phrase
The Beatles, from “I Am the Walrus”
Joni Mitchell, from “Woodtsock”
John Trudell

Mankh (Walter E. Harris III) is an essayist and resident poet at Axis of Logic. Check out his newest book Moving Through The Empty Gate Forest: inside looking out. 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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