April is poetry month! - Joy Harjo
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butterflykikiCelli's entries including this one here reminded me of this!
Because I saw Joy Harjo in person last April, and will hopefully find more cool poets this year. You can listen to her read this with music backing here. (She is also a saxophone player!)
This Morning I Pray for My Enemies
Joy Harjo - (1951- )
And whom do I call my enemy?
An enemy must be worthy of engagement.
I turn in the direction of the sun and keep walking.
It’s the heart that asks the question, not my furious mind.
The heart is the smaller cousin of the sun.
It sees and knows everything.
It hears the gnashing even as it hears the blessing.
The door to the mind should only open from the heart.
An enemy who gets in, risks the danger of becoming a friend.
Harjo, Joy, Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems; Copyright © 2015 by W. W. Norton & Company.
Because I saw Joy Harjo in person last April, and will hopefully find more cool poets this year. You can listen to her read this with music backing here. (She is also a saxophone player!)
This Morning I Pray for My Enemies
Joy Harjo - (1951- )
And whom do I call my enemy?
An enemy must be worthy of engagement.
I turn in the direction of the sun and keep walking.
It’s the heart that asks the question, not my furious mind.
The heart is the smaller cousin of the sun.
It sees and knows everything.
It hears the gnashing even as it hears the blessing.
The door to the mind should only open from the heart.
An enemy who gets in, risks the danger of becoming a friend.
Harjo, Joy, Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems; Copyright © 2015 by W. W. Norton & Company.
