if i say
i love
and it was not predicted
by an algorithm,
is it really love
or an act of resistance.
i don’t want to be mapped,
charted, measured.
i want to say lost
and taste that word
like salt from another ocean.
i want to loose myself
again and again to this
six note feather song
that falls from the tree
with late light that pools
amongst root and leaf
to spill over skin
new lined with paths
made by feet
finding their way.
5 march 2020
Linking to Earthweal’s open link weekend #70.
https://earthweal.com/2021/05/21/earthweal-open-link-weekend-70/
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Beautifully written Lindi, I can hear that ‘six note feather song that falls from the tree’ 💚
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Thank you Xenia. Xx
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I love your opening question! I, too, hate to be mapped and have written on this subject. There are better, wilder places we can go to. And still I use Google…
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We’re all numbers now. But we still can’t predict or control the natural world. (K)
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Yes. And perhaps the more aligned with the natural world we become, the more unpredictable or uncontrollable we ourselves become. In a good way. Maybe.
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We do have trouble just letting things be.
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*Sigh*
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I like this, the feeling of weightlessness when you’re beneath a leafy tree in light that could lead you anywhere.
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Thank you Jane.
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This is absolutely gorgeous.
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Your title struck me first, Lindi, the idea of ‘unmapping our future’, a different way of looking at things, and the poem delved into that idea in such a refreshing way, particularly in the lines:
‘i want to say lost
and taste that word
like salt from another ocean’.
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Thanks.
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How beautiful. Your poem speaks to me of soul freedom beyond the li its imposed by society.
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Thanks Suzanne.
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I love this. It is critical to resist. Even if it’s impossible to resist completely, I believe in the power of saying no.
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Thank you.
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perhaps love is an act of resistance. and sometimes, the pièce de résistance ~
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