Laguage and Speech (B)

Fossil Speech

Sounds from soft, red flesh;
Released with the breath of life,
Through the box of voice-sound,
Through the cave of mouth,
Sculpted to taste and send
meanings with tongue.

Sounds mating in flight with message of eyes,
Sounds flying into patterns, into transformations,
Into voice-waftings, as caresses of faces!
As landings on faces, of speech-formations!

Words so stubborn, so embedded,
As to be petrified, to be time-locked,
Into moving rythym and chanting beat,
Defying conquest-storms of culture-shock,

Speech sounds given as kisses defying death,
Mouth to mouth spirit resuscitation, an imortality.
Deep language carved into stone
And etched onto sheaths of wood.

Language buried, as scrolls in caves,
As bios and tales in tombs,
Carried, on culture's beasts and vessels,
As treasured pages of Ages.

Speech as human spirit's reach
To endure every breach
Of love-nurture by artifice-culture;
Love passed as birthright to all and each,
As soul-life sounds midst
Ruins of bones and abode-stones.

Sounds regathered not for science shelves,
But as forage, for the Soul
To speak again what is older,
What is stronger than constructed stone:
Speech calling from the fossil Soul.

(adapted from Ch. XI, "Ecopoetry," in The Last Human Spring

Language and Speech (A)

To Speak the Body of We

Language says to Life,
Give me your sounds of atrophy and pain,
Your sounds of growth and joy,
Your sounds of struggle to be--
Free of pretense and greed--
Sounds of your primal, pure identity.

Give me sounds of Life attaining to Being,
Echoing round, and on to speech;
As Life evolves its charted strife
With Soul into self-conscious being;
As the heart leaves the self of I
Joining the bond of We, in social life,
Searching to speak our needings' Why.

And the body of Life and Being,
Organismic-Earth, says to language,
You are not needed here,
But are welcome, if you come to speak
More deeply than, "Listen to me":
If you come to know
The condition of your being,
And to speak the body of We.

(from Ch XI, "Ecopoetry" The Last Human Spring

Wildness, Savagery, Disintegration Vs Order, Unity, Growth (B)

The questions, What is wildness and savagery? and What is beastly? call out for an ecological and ontological answer in our Age of Ecology and Sustainability. Look at Civilization's diverse, long-running menu of feasts: its enslavements, conquests, genocides, oppressions, hegemonies, exploitations; look at the violations of organic families, communities, and ecosystem-habitats and ask, "What is wildness and savagery? and What is the beast and where is it?

The answer, we are in denial of: it is Us, dear Readers. The beast, raging so savagely amidst Humanity and Earth-life is within us, savaging our humanity, spirit, soul and being. A beast wildly implanted there through accelerating, penetrating violations into our once pure, human being and soul! Natural, original, pure, human being was originally created through the natural selections from the matrix-medium-environment of natural culture, our nurturome, having order, balance, unity and sustainability.

Stopping on the hiking trail or beside the parked car, looking out upon the mountains and valleys; do not believe it is the Wild you see out there! For, what you behold it is the only form of meaningful order, rightness, goodness and beauty ever created in our lifeworld having unified purity, meaning and purpose. Organic human family and community once were there also, a part of Earth-life's natural purity, unity, growth and order.

Whichever human communities believe, in the center of their hearts, in this unity and purity, in this goodness and beauty, in this meaning and purpose; this natural order will be sustained till the end of human time and being in their home of Earth-place. This world of treasure called Life will shine on. This order of warmth and light will dispel the Wildness and the Darkness sustaining Earth's modest, humble humanity for eons to come. Seize and embrace, then, this faith in our Source, our Earth-life-world. Keep, then, this original human Faith; and practice this natural Faith.

The natural disasters we see in Earth's evolved ecosystems of life are intrinsic parts of both Earth-life's and Humanity's development, well-being and sustainability. In contrast, the destructivities long-witnessed in civilization's cities, states, nations and empires are intrinsic parts of the power-wealth-domination ethos and oppression of the masses of humanity by small elites, within which "might makes right."

No construct or entity, human or nonhuman, of civilization past or present, could exist for a month, nor one day, without the savageries it disguises, through trickery, false hopes and shams, as necessary and rightful rule of the 'strong' few over the masses; unto which, it systematically administers and sustains the conditions of chronic, diverse human debilitations.

The various arts of civilization, likewise, could not exist without sustaining the lie, hoax and sham that art is worth the taxes, retail prices, corporate welfare, art grants, tax breaks and loopholes: all the illegitimate weight strapped onto the oppressed shoulders of the masses of humanity. The living refutation of this false art of oppression is the natural, pure art and crafts of Earth-life's organic, human families and communities.

This has always been so, and largely still is, free for the taking as the un-polluted nurturings and culture manifested through the universal, human commons, found in Earth's whole, natural, human being, spirit and soul.


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Wildness, Savagery, Disintegration Vs Order, Unity, Growth (A)

The natural condition, order and unity of Earth's life is the process called Earth's evolution of life. Civilization runs wild outside this orderly, united process, in many artificial directions and forms, in violations Earth-life.

The only ecological, natural order of Earth-life, as well as her humanity within this natural process of life,
is Earth's evolution of her species of life, including natural humanity, preceeding our violation by civilization.

The Modern Age continues to deepen the dichotomization of Life on Earth into (a) the "wild" of living Earth's natural order, and (b) the "civil" order, the domesticated, the tame, of Civilization's socioculture.

The dichotomy is there. But false in it's depicted nature. The truth lies deeper, buried by convenient and foundational lies. The pure, natural order of Earth-life, it's evolution and sustained condition, is the natural order, patterns, boundaries, identities, characteristics, and selections, forming the orderliness and cohesiveness of Her species, genuses and families. Earth-life forms this as one unified system of Evolutionary Life. Civilization, on the other hand, and contrary to programmed, educated belief, is the original, emergence of wildness, in conflict with both our orderly, 250 year-old species of humanity and our humanity encradled wihtin Earth-life.

Civilization breaks away from the gradual careful, timings, sequences and ingredientials of evolved Earth-life's balance, blueprints, distinct identities, selections and orderliness composing evolved, orderly forms of life. This is Human Life's matrix-medium-blueprint of organismicity, via natural selections and mutations. Penetrating this natural order of Life, civilization is the emergence of wildness, disorder, violation and savagery within Humanity, spreading outward into Earth-life, her ecosystems and habitats.

After all, what is the central characteristic and phenomenon of human life and being, and all Earth-life? It is, respectively, two million years of humanity's, and four billion years of Life's, accumulated order, balance, unity and organismicity -- the wholeness and oneness of the system of Life on Earth. It is Life's organismicity. It's Life's natural order with proven sustainabilty.

Do not believe the Modern myth and lie that Living Nature is the Wild! It is civilization that breaks out of Life's natural order balance and unity, and departs into the wildness, chaos, savagery, disintegration and destruction of both humanity's and Earth-life's orderliness, balance, unities, blueprints, and ecologies providing growth and sustainability through the eons.

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Readers and Books

There are two kinds of readers. One is traveler looking for scenes on the scenic terrain provided; attention and pace deployed toward the reader's enjoyment. The other Reader is hunter-gatherer, stopping to forage upon ideas and feast on reflections.

The first Reader values how many travels are made. The second never really finishes the journey the book has provided. The ideas and reflections attain to a meal of absorbtion and digestion, to a togetherness of Author with Reader, of idea and vision with reality,

The true Author and Reader are a recoming together; have some sharings of porch; stand at, and walk along some fences together; refire the forgotton torch; make some campings together; travel the roads less traveled by, re-blaze the trails now freeway-passed by;  answer the soul's needings why.

Sentence or paragraph of literature utter, between the lines: "ponder this and partake for truest need." They weave assimilations of knowledge, beauty and enlightenment for the Reader's life. The great book's passages clear a truer trail, blaze a more bountiful passage through Earth's time, being and place.

Oh, how the treasure left behind contests the treasure ahead! With such sweet sorrow, each paragraph is departed from; each page reluctantly turned. Trail-strewn passages still chant their deeper and wider nourishments hidden in herb-like leaves and brick-like stones. Nurturings and nutrients too numerous to backpack along the trails of human mind, through the storms and climate changes of language, into the Earth-dwellings of human being.

These deep Readers read writing that has fruited into Literature, beyond the mere stems and flowers of prose or poetry. These readers may, at last, reach the end of the trail of pages. But literature--of any length-- is never finished with readers; nor readers with literature. A great book provides no ending at its end. And no ending of their reading. True literature runs deep; its depths run deeper than any reader; deeper than the author that created it.

A great book is greater than the Author. Authentic human idea and vision outlive the mortal Author; they are remembered more widely than a human's name, escaping the confines of their creater. Their roots run wide and deep across Earth's conscious and subconscious fields of being. They do not stop with the Author's absence or death. Just one Reader, adding some water to one idea, to one shoot of compassion, pushes the root a little farther, adding to humanity's deeper grasping into life, it's rooting into all living being, its retappings into Earth's Human Soul.

A great book grows into the life and soul of the Reader as a linguistic organ or ontological gland. Understanding, imagination and vision are enhanced by the seeds of wisdom thus implanted. The book, its rootings and sproutings, are with the Reader till the end of his days.

The great book leaves a kind of "literary prayer" or "reverence" within the Reader. It leaves something like this: "Yea, though I walk through this valley of the fallen; I fear evil less. For, my books are with me."

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The Ontological Pollution of Humanity

"The destruction of the natural world [ecosystems-habitats] eminates from what we are as alienized human beings--from the kind of beings we have become. The environmental destruction is primarily within the environs of our human being-- the destruction of living nature's natural human being, her human nurtureculture, nurturome, and selflifeworld precedes and effects the destruction of the natural world enveloping us. When we come to realize that the pollution of our human being and soul-- material, biological, social, cultural, spiritual-ontological-- is primary to, and the source of, environmental pollution; we will have broken through our illusion, and can begin the real fight to preserve human nature, all living nature, and their home, Earthlifeworld (ecosphere)."

(from Ch. IX, The Last Human Spring)

Ecological Intelligence

"Our acquisitioin of a great quantity of scientific knowledge of Earth-life-world(ecosphere) and the universe cannot be vindicated; because it cannot be seperated from our lack of ecological, social-spiritual-ontological intelligence, nor from the resulting, accelerating destruction of Earth's human self-life-world and Earthlifeworld, which made this arrogant, destructive knowledge possible. Modern 'civilization' wants to have the cake of mind, while devouring the grains of being that make such extravagance (of intellect-egoism) possible. Such is the modern cannibalism, devouring our human being, soul and Earth-life [ecosystem-habitats]."

(from CH. IX, The Last Human Spring)

Perceptions Storm

There is not much coming in
Through the poet's adulterated mind,
Through the brave new world's scientific fabrication,
Through the storm-tossed sea of information,
Through the gloss of image and sensation,
Through the view of novelty as creation.

There is not much coming in,
As this infidel, in this hurricane of time,
Batters senses, once kept pure, for perception;
As artists surf waves of brash imagination,
As their 'second nature' takes formation,
As souls fight tides of alienation.

What sea reclaims this species' nations?

(from Ch. XI, "Ecopoetry" The Last Human Spring)