[PeDAGoG] a degrowth poem

Tue Nov 3 08:49:25 CET 2020

Many thanks Christine for sharing the poem. It looks pretty good. I am
going to use it for my class on corporate social irresponsibility.

best.
george

On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 12:49 PM Christine Dann <christine at horomaka.org>
wrote:

> Dear Alternatives friends,
>
> I just read the poem below, and although it is untitled, it seemed to me
> to express the emotional truth of degrowth.  Hope you like it.
>
> Christine
>
>
>
> ‘Degrowth’ poem
> by Dara McAnulty
> p. 108
> *Diary of a Young Naturalist* (2020)
>
>
>
> *Tuesday, 7 August*
>
> When we began, our feet trod lightly
> Bare upon the earth, we were weightless
> Travellers, allowing resurgence and
> Regrowth, leaving enough.
> Reverence.
>
> Forging through millenia, we kept on
> Adding endless weight, a leadening
> Heaviness, leaving deep and lasting
> Indentations, sending shockwaves.
> Eliminating.
>
> Cruelty, cavernous greed, no impediment,
> Hands and feet became Industrial.
> Monsters, spewing toxicity, sickening,
> Deafening, echoing arrows.
> Piercing.
>
> Now thundering, trampling boundlessly.
> Decimating pathways once bountiful.
> We watch helplessly, numb and aching,
> Our hollow, haunting cries in empty spaces.
> Waiting.
>
> Stop. I hear hope, purposely striding.
> Footsteps pleading necessary action.
> Great minds whirring, channelling change,
> Demanding, respectfully our weight to
> Lessen.
>
> I want birdsong, abundant fluttering,
> Humming, no more poison or destruction,
> Growing for growth, it has to end.
> Will my generation see the rightful
> Rising?
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