[Thespiritexpress] 4th of July Poem

[Susan]

Thanks Ron…Exactly!
Susan
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> On Jul 5, 2025, at 9:57 AM, Riantee Rand via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org> wrote:
> 
> Yes! Yes! Yes!
> Thank you so much.
> R
> 
>> On Jul 5, 2025, at 07:57, Ron Nadeau via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Enjoy this Weekend
>> ~We live in a beautiful part of the world ~ a lot of Blessings being counted...
>> w/Love
>> 
>> 
>> ~This poem came through on my morning feed:
>> 
>> 
>> Pledge 
>> 
>> Today is Independence Day. 
>> Tomorrow will also be Independence Day. 
>> I wave the banner of the present moment.
>> I pledge allegiance to no flag, no nation. 
>> I pledge allegiance to no tribe or party.
>> I pledge allegiance to no bombs bursting in air.
>> I pledge allegiance to silence and a day of prayer.
>> Patriotism is rebellion. 
>> Rebellion is joy.
>> Cast down the mighty, the masters of war.
>> I pledge allegiance to the poor.
>> I pledge allegiance to the boy I used to be. 
>> The girl you were, the boy in the girl and the girl in the
>> boy before wholeness was shattered by
>> our education.
>> I pledge allegiance to hemp and sod.
>> I pledge allegiance to the unnamed God,
>> to the moon and the tide, to sun and
>> wind and what I cannot know,
>> to a light that contains all colors, to the rainbow.
>> I pledge allegiance to no belief
>> but an heirloom tomato seed,
>> a living coral reef,
>> the wisdom in a weed.
>> when the fireworks last too long after
>> midnight and sulfur lingers in the air.
>> I pledge allegiance to the huddled deer,
>> the stray dog in the street, 
>> the shivering sparrow in a bush,
>> the veteran cringing in the heat of his
>> most ancient fear.
>> I don't need more bombs.
>> I need to hear the gentle bursting of
>> peonies in my garden.
>> To notice the sun set here as it rises over Gaza.
>> To greet who ever I see with a breath of peace.
>> They don't even need to know,
>> something in my chest will melt away the
>> borders of every nation.
>> Now take off your shoes.
>> Go slow.
>> Don't burn the flag.
>> Unravel its thread.
>> We hunger for a common bread.
>> With all my relations gathered at birth,
>> I pledge allegiance to the earth,
>> the infant curled in mother's sea of
>> trust.
>> I pledge allegiance to the dust. 
>> To all winged and swimming things, to creatures
>> that crawl or come out at night.
>> Brothers, sisters, four-legged and two,
>> I pledge allegiance
>> to you.
>> I pledge allegiance
>> to you.
>> 
>> 	- Alfred Lamotte
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