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Once again our friends from across the globe amaze us. In fact new poets, learners and readers join #walkmyworld every day. To this end we will no longer publish weekly challenges but will shift the focus to learning events. This will allow folks to step in and out of our burgeoning affinity space.
In the last learning event we asked you to think about what it means to name things, and to consider the power of what you name in the pics you share. We considered what Hass meant when he said, “naming things is a way of establishing your identity through one’s surroundings.”
Many turned to to the the poem “Meditation at Lagunitas.”
Next Learning Event
Letter to a Poet
A mockingbird leans
from the walnut, bellies,
riffling white, accomplisheshis perch upon the eaves.
I witnessed this act of grace
in blind Californiain the January sun
where families bicycle on Saturday
and the mother with high cheekbonesand coffee-colored iridescent
hair curses her child
in the language of Pushkin–John, I am dull from
thinking of your pain,
this mimic worldwhich make us stupid
with the totem griefs
we hope will give uspower to look at trees,
at stones, one brute to another
like poems on a page.What can I say, my friend?
There are tricks of animal grace,
poems in the mindwe survive on. It isn’t much.
You are 4,000 miles away &
this world did not invite us
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