Tim Seibles - Fearless - Poetry
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Uploaded by chamesrichalds on Jul 11, 2007
Tim Seibles reading his poem "Fearless" in 2003. It's better if you just listen to the poem instead of watching my sad attempt to match random nature images to his words.
Fearless
for Moombi
Good to see the green world
undiscouraged, the green fire
bounding back every spring, and beyond
the tyranny of thumbs, the weeks
and other co-conspiring green genes
ganging up, breaking in, despite
small shears and kill-mowers,
ground gougers, seed-eaters.
Here they come, sudden as graffiti
not there and then there--
naked, unhumble, unrequitedly green--
growing as if they would be trees
on any unmanned patch of earth,
any sidewalk cracked, crooning
between ties on lonesome railroad tracks.
And moss, the shyest green citizen
anywhere, dreaming between bricks
on the damp side of a shack.
Clear a quick swatch of dirt
and come back sooner than later
to find the green friends moved in:
their pitched tents, the first bright
leaves hitched to the new sun, new roots
tuning the subterranean flavors,
chlorophyll setting a feast of light.
Is it possible to be so glad?
The shoots rising in spite of every plot
against them. Every chemical stupidity,
every burned field, every better
home & garden finally overrun
by the green will, the green greenness
of green things growing greener.
The mad Earth publishing
Her many million murmuring
unsaids. Look
how the shade pours
from the big branches -- the ground,
the good ground, pubic
and sweet. The trees -- who
are they? Their stillness, that
long silence, the never
running away.
Note: Moombi, Creator of the Earth, She who blesses the seeds, (Kenya).
Tim Seibles
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Simply charming. Lets hope the green world is never discouraged to come back despite the way we abuse it. You read beautifully, a fav.
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