Remember you are this universe (celebrating U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo)

<!-- @page { margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } </style> <br />--> <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dmhgtg8Xza..." imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="331" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dmhgtg8Xza..." width="212" /></a></div><div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; page-break-before: always;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hello and Happy Poetry Friday! And... Happy SUMMER! Be sure to visit Linda at <a href="https://awordedgewiselindamitchell.bl... 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National Park.</a> More on this later... we're still recovering! </span></span></div><div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; page-break-before: always;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; page-break-before: always;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Today I just wanted to pop in and share my delight upon hearing <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poet... Harjo</a>, member of the Mvskoke Creek Nation* named as the first ever Native American U.S. Poet Laureate! So many of her poems speak to me, and a few years ago I got to know her in a different way through her memoir <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Crazy-Brave-Me... BRAVE.</a> Be sure to read it, if you haven't already. And here is a favorite favorite poem, that definitely goes on the "<a href="https://irenelatham.blogspot.com/p/ho... to Live Your Poem</a>" list.</span></span></div><div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; page-break-before: always;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; page-break-before: always;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Remember</b></span></span></div><div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>by Joy Harjo</i></span></span></div><div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Remember the sky that you were born under,</span></span></div><div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">know each of the star's stories.</span></span></div><div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Remember the moon, know who she is.</span></span></div><div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Remember the sun's birth at dawn, that is the </span></span></div><div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">strongest point of time. Remember sundown</span></span></div><div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and the giving away to night.</span></span></div><div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Remember your birth, how your mother struggled</span></span></div><div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">to give you form and breath. You are evidence of</span></span></div><div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">her life, and her mother's and hers.</span></span></div><div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Remember your father. He is your life, also.</span></span></div><div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Remember the earth whose skin you are:</span></span></div><div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">red earth, black earth, yellow earth, white earth</span></span></div><div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">brown earth, we are earth.</span></span></div><div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Remember the plants, trees, animal life who all have their</span></span></div><div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">tribes, their families, their histories, too. Talk to them,</span></span></div><div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">listen to them. They are alive poems.</span></span></div><div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Remember the wind. Remember her voice. She knows the</span></span></div><div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">origin of this universe.</span></span></div><div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Remember you are all people and all people</span></span></div><div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">are you.</span></span></div><div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Remember you are this universe and this</span></span></div><div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">universe is you.</span></span></div><div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Remember all is in motion, is growing, is you.</span></span></div><div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Remember language comes from this.</span></span></div><div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Remember the dance language is, that life is.</span></span></div><div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Remember.</span></span></div><div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">(published in SHE HAD SOME HORSES, W.W. Norton & Co., 1983)</span></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5ft6Ab0U5t..." imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5ft6Ab0U5t..." width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">...remember snowmelt -- like poetry --<br /> is a powerful, beautiful thing!</td></tr></tbody></table><div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">*I added this after reading <a href="https://readingyear.blogspot.com/2019... Lee's post. </a>I have much to learn. Thank you, Mary Lee!</div><br />