"Let them not say: they did nothing."

In an age of silence, resistance is witness.
No Kings. No idols. No submission — only the courage to speak, to act, to remember.

Read more: https://abhibhut.blogspot.com/2020/12/let-them-not-say.html

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#NoKings #JaneHirshfield #PoetryOfResistance #Trump

Perfect Mind: The Gnostic Field Guide to Wholeness and Hearing the Voice of Truth

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2025/10/19/gnostic-thunder-perfect-mind/

On the Fifth Day
JANE HIRSHFIELD

On the fifth day
the scientists who studied the rivers
were forbidden to speak
or to study the rivers.

The scientists who studied the air
were told not to speak of the air,
and the ones who worked for the farmers
were silenced,
and the ones who worked for the bees.

Someone, from deep in the Badlands,
began posting facts.

The facts were told not to speak
and were taken away.
The facts, surprised to be taken, were silent.

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for I, too, was a mammal

I Was Not, Among My Kind, Distinctive
Jane Hirshfield

#Poetry #JaneHirshfield #Tissues #Handkerchiefs #Fireflies #Mosquitoes #Bats #Steps #Failures #Mammals #Literature

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/1614980/i-was-not-among-my-kind-distinctive

I go into the garden and weed.

I am asked a question.
Jane Hirshfield

#Poetry #JaneHirshfield #Life #Questions #Gardening #Weeds

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/1614978/i-am-asked-a-question

A really beautiful piece about poetry, and asking the same questions about life again and again, and wonder, and being human, by Devin Kelly. https://open.substack.com/pub/ordinaryplots/p/jane-hirshfields-to-be-a-person?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=2t69m

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Making the Invisible Visible: Some Thoughts on Poetry & Science (Jane Hirshfield, 2024 Blaney Lecture on March 19, 2024)

"Art and science both begin with seeing: with observation and description (...) But to see in ways that matter past the immediate moment, you need something else: to preserve perception."

via @tynedaile (Bluesky)

https://poets.org/text/blaney-making-invisible-visible

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