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This site is for activists and professionals with stories to tell about building vibrant, resilient communities ... informed by asset-based approaches and Carnegie UK Trust's model of the sustainable rural community of the future. Get the most from our quality events, unique connections, and powerful content - see the site guide and introductory video... and read Carnegie's 'Manifesto for Rural Communities':

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Don't we also need 'Virtue Capital'?

Started by David Muir in Building Capital Dec. 11, 2009.

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Poems for January. Thanks to Ailsa Clark and Karen Grant for this month's poems.
The New Enlightenment - Learn from the past...

When my people were cleared
with callous lack of concern for them as a people
people broken
places empty
spiritually stripped

They went to new places
lands of opportunity
intrepid adventure
challenge and wealth

But what of the people encountered who's lands they explored

We must learn from the past
inequality breeds injustice
the kindred spirit together is strong
value the land
value the love
value the spirit forever
before forever is gone

(suggested by Ailsa Clark)


Summer Farm

Straws like tame lightnings lie about the grass
And hang zigzag on hedges. Green as glass
The water in the horse-trough shines.
Nine ducks go wobbling by in two straight lines.

A hen stares at nothing with one eye,
Then picks it up. Out of an empty sky
A swallow falls and, flickering through
The barn, dives up again into the dizzy blue.

I lie, not thinking, in the cool, soft grass,
Afraid of where a thought might take me -
This grasshopper with plated face
Unfolds his legs and finds himself in space.

Self under self, a pile of selves I stand
Threaded on time, and with metaphysic hand
Lift the farm like a lid and see
Farm within farm, and in the centre, me.

(suggested by Karen Grant: "this is one of my very favourite poems - Summer Farm by Norman Maccaig...")
 
 

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Very powerful video, many thanks for posting... can't help but to spread the word and the message. I wonder if more 'fiery spirits' have poems they might make a film from... it's got me thinking...
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