Poetry Archive #2 (large sketch book)
Resistance
Stand up for your convictions
Whatever they are
Whatever obstacles stand in your way
Whatever others may think
Resistance
Feel deeply your inner strength
Let your actions serve your will
As your will strives to serve the greater good
Fear overcome is the beginning of ecstasy
Resistance
The struggle outweighs the outcome
The journey surpasses the destination
Passive acceptance is the bastion of the weak
The meek have inherited nothing
Resistance
Dare to give your life meaning
Share freely what you have experienced
Care about what really matters
Tear down obstacles to justice
Resistance
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Odd to me that a statement of resistance brought upon me a feeling of calm…I wondered if you had recently been reading Wendell Berry.
Actually i have his “Manifesto: The Mad Liberation Front” posted on my office wall, but i wrote that piece around 2002 maybe, and hadn’t had any Berry exposure for a few years, but i can see the influence. The big thing i have learned from re-reading my old notebooks is how often i write the same poem. I found one that contained the same ideas of one i finished a few months ago that i’d written 6 years ago and forgotten about. It leads me to question how original anything i’ve written is. I remember a line i was all proudly obsessed with and re-read Gravity’s Rainbow and found the line in their, which i had read about 3 months prior to when i came up with that piece of genius. glad you liked the piece though.