WELCOME TO SEPT 26, DAY 26 OF OUR BLOG IN SUPPORT OF THE ITHACA SANCTUARY ALLIANCE (BLOGGER'S NOTE: WE ARE ENTERING THE CLOSING DAYS OF THE "DAYS OF AWE" IN THE JEWISH NEW YEAR, OUR TIME OF DEEPEST SELF-REFLECTION, WHEN WE MUST ALL "COME HOME". How fitting that we are focused on providing home/sanctuary to a specific family in search of safety and security. See https://www.gofundme.com/f/30-poems-in-30-days-for-ithaca-sanctuary-alliance
SEPT 26 Northside II SUSAN ESCHBACH small stones scattered across yards, sidewalks, driveways black ink Black Lives Matters printed carefully or scrawled sometimes the c is in the wrong place or matters misses a t our children have made these and tossed them around claiming spaces that require their voice awesome empowered inspiring and yet, why must they? what we have wrought is a giant they must bring down with stones. 26 Tribute to a Hymn by John Greenleaf Whittier MARTIN BIDNEY iambic pentameter sonnet x/ x/ x/ x/ x/(x) Quaker, abolitionist, persuader “ O Brother Man, fold to thy heart thy brother. Where pity dwells, the peace of God is there; To worship rightly is to love each other. Each smile a hymn, each kindly deed a prayer.” O sing, my siblings all! We are compounded Of primal love-strength and emprising Fire. Reach ramified, we’re each a life tree grounded In earth – flame, water, air aspiring higher. O lend me breath arboreal to nourish The w