Love What is Plentiful
June 26, 2010
We Alone
by Alice Walker
We alone can devalue gold
by not caring
if it falls or rises
in the marketplace.
Wherever there is gold
there is a chain, you know,
and if your chain
is gold
so much the worse
for you.
Feathers, shells
and sea-shaped stones
are all as rare.
This could be our revolution:
to love what is plentiful
as much as
what’s scarce.
June 26, 2010 at 6:58 am
Thanks for sharing: nice vignettes, great poem.
June 27, 2010 at 6:42 am
The ‘gold chain’ Did you see a recent post about mining for sulphur? http://foldfallowplough.blogspot.com/2010/06/black-spot-live-with-it.html
June 27, 2010 at 11:08 am
PS I will be linking back to this post tomorrow. Diana