Comments on: Can Poetry Save the Planet? http://transitionculture.org/2007/12/19/can-poetry-save-the-planet-drew-dellinger-and-matt-harvey-in-totnes/ An Evolving Exploration into the Head, Heart and Hands of Energy Descent Wed, 23 May 2012 18:55:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Rationalist http://transitionculture.org/2007/12/19/can-poetry-save-the-planet-drew-dellinger-and-matt-harvey-in-totnes/comment-page-1/#comment-53352 Rationalist Thu, 20 Dec 2007 22:21:45 +0000 http://transitionculture.org/2007/12/19/can-poetry-save-the-planet-drew-dellinger-and-matt-harvey-in-totnes/#comment-53352 <p>Economics For Beginners; A Poem We Can All Join In</p> <p>Maxine Qwerty</p> <p>Ain't got no job got what you deserve ain't got no money got what you deserve ain't got no home got what you deserve ain't got no hope got what you deserve</p> <p>Got a top job got what you deserve got money to burn got what you deserve got two lovely homes got what you deserve one went up in flames got what you deserve</p> Economics For Beginners; A Poem We Can All Join In

Maxine Qwerty

Ain’t got no job
got what you deserve
ain’t got no money
got what you deserve
ain’t got no home
got what you deserve
ain’t got no hope
got what you deserve

Got a top job
got what you deserve
got money to burn
got what you deserve
got two lovely homes
got what you deserve
one went up in flames
got what you deserve

]]> By: Rationalist http://transitionculture.org/2007/12/19/can-poetry-save-the-planet-drew-dellinger-and-matt-harvey-in-totnes/comment-page-1/#comment-53351 Rationalist Thu, 20 Dec 2007 22:18:39 +0000 http://transitionculture.org/2007/12/19/can-poetry-save-the-planet-drew-dellinger-and-matt-harvey-in-totnes/#comment-53351 <p>Economics For Beginners; A Poem We Can All Join In</p> Economics For Beginners; A Poem We Can All Join In

]]> By: Anne Stallybrass http://transitionculture.org/2007/12/19/can-poetry-save-the-planet-drew-dellinger-and-matt-harvey-in-totnes/comment-page-1/#comment-53317 Anne Stallybrass Wed, 19 Dec 2007 21:09:03 +0000 http://transitionculture.org/2007/12/19/can-poetry-save-the-planet-drew-dellinger-and-matt-harvey-in-totnes/#comment-53317 <p>This is an apposite favourite of mine from Sir George Trevelyan's precious anthology of wake-up poetry called Magic Casements:</p> <p>The human heart can go the lengths of God. Dark and cold we may be, but this Is no winter now. The frozen misery Of centuries breaks, cracks, begins to move; The thunder is the thunder of the floes, The thaw, the flood, the upstart Spring. Thank God our Time is now when wrong Comes up to face us everywhere, Never to leave us till we take The longest stride of soul men ever took. Affairs are now soul size. The enterprise Is exploration into God. Where are you making for? It takes So many thousand years to wake But will you wake for pity's sake?</p> <p>No coincidence that Lady Elmhirst, foundress of Dartington as it is today, and inspiratrix of the whole Devon green movement, was an avid collector of poetry - her stuff is also published.</p> <p>And oh yes, I've suddenly got hooked on Robert Browning's The Pied Piper of Hamelin. Now I wonder why???</p> This is an apposite favourite of mine from Sir George Trevelyan’s precious anthology of wake-up poetry called Magic Casements:

The human heart can go the lengths of God.
Dark and cold we may be, but this
Is no winter now. The frozen misery
Of centuries breaks, cracks, begins to move;
The thunder is the thunder of the floes,
The thaw, the flood, the upstart Spring.
Thank God our Time is now when wrong
Comes up to face us everywhere,
Never to leave us till we take
The longest stride of soul men ever took.
Affairs are now soul size.
The enterprise
Is exploration into God.
Where are you making for? It takes
So many thousand years to wake
But will you wake for pity’s sake?

No coincidence that Lady Elmhirst, foundress of Dartington as it is today, and inspiratrix of the whole Devon green movement, was an avid collector of poetry – her stuff is also published.

And oh yes, I’ve suddenly got hooked on Robert Browning’s The Pied Piper of Hamelin. Now I wonder why???

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