Sally Sandler | Selected poems

Deep Forest Wind I long to hear the ancient wind that sighs throughout the tops of old forest trees and fills the primal canopy of leaves with melancholy echoes—hollow, high. The history of the world is in this wind. The force we cannot see is yet so vast it’s touched every present, every past and secret since before the dawn of man. To hear the wind’s bellows fill the sky […]

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Lyla June | Reclaiming our Indigenous European roots

I spend a lot of time honoring and calling upon my Native American ancestors. I am keenly aware that my father’s people hold a venerable medicine as well. He has ancestry from the Great Sacred Motherland of Europe. I have been called a half-breed. I have been called a mutt. Impure. I have been told my mixed blood is my bane. That I’m cursed to have an Indian for a […]

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Ancient wisdom

“You mutilate the world because you don’t remember the Great Mother. If you don’t stop, the world will die. Please believe us. Do you think we say these words for the sake of talking? We are speaking the truth.” — Shibulata (Kogi) “Actually, there is a law; it’s the original instructions we came with. We need to return to those original instructions, we need to get our compass turned inward—so […]

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Judith Simon Prager | The wise ones say

The wise ones say There is only one moment and it is Now There is only one consciousness and it is shared And I understand that if we understand that, we are home free. So you, in your car, taking to the road after a long day, or stirring the vegetables, one color after another, into the fragrant soup, or lying in your bed, nearly asleep, but suspended enough to […]

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