tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5131431825903248562.post462371061096668205..comments2023-12-01T15:46:10.640-05:00Comments on The Daily Poet: Winter’s Weight / The Prophet (an allegory)Arjun Janahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08949984941582392261noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5131431825903248562.post-80475772470263958282016-04-11T23:57:35.477-04:002016-04-11T23:57:35.477-04:00Thanks, Rana! Sanders, as you know, has won eight...Thanks, Rana! Sanders, as you know, has won eight of the last nine state contests, the last two being Wisconsin and Wyoming. But now, on April 19th, it will be New York, where he will have a harder time. Then there's Pennsylvania, where he may also have trouble. I'm still rooting for him. Go, Bernie! ;-)Arjun Janahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08949984941582392261noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5131431825903248562.post-61696166195788914142016-04-11T17:47:39.307-04:002016-04-11T17:47:39.307-04:00I had seen this before. ..but now with the intensi...I had seen this before. ..but now with the intensity that Bernie has brought on...it has significantly affected the deep feelings for change that I sense in your country..and somehow I feel it won't be a letdown like your current President...great poetry..thanks Rana Bosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15678931333568167529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5131431825903248562.post-38164901859286688942016-01-19T09:19:35.446-05:002016-01-19T09:19:35.446-05:00Thanks for reading and for the kind comment, James...Thanks for reading and for the kind comment, James. <br /><br />Sanders' success so far was, to me, unexpected. I hope he and others succeed in changing to some degree the assumptions and directions of politics in this country, not least among the people of this country, directing their focus back to perennial economic issues that have been with us for a very long time (going back to the beginnings of grain agriculture and the landlord hierarchy it generated), but have rarely been addressed through popular awareness and action. <br /><br />Beyond that, I hope that the madness of ever increasing production and consumption that is simultaneously beggaring large sections of our own species the world over, generating economic gradients as well as conflicts that displace and even slaughter millions, while also leading to the mass extinctions of other species, will cease or at least slow in its intensity and scale. Of course, over the decades, this madness has only been accelerating and is even hailed as "progress" and "growth".<br /><br />Indeed, slowing is seen as the worst of sins--be this in an individual worker who slows in his/her rate of consumption or "production" or in the economy as measured by things such as G.D.P. We are caught in a trap where a slowdown results in losses of income and jobs. But humans are not meant to be in such a trap. This is at variance with our better, saner natures and with most of our evolutionary history.<br /><br />But for that slowing to occur, we need not only prophets on high but seers in plenty among ordinary folk like you and me. We need to wake and see the consequences, including to our own children (if we have any), others and ourselves of this trap that we are in.<br />Arjun Janahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08949984941582392261noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5131431825903248562.post-76775396948959823592016-01-18T23:43:13.620-05:002016-01-18T23:43:13.620-05:00Never stop writing your beautiful poetry!
I love i...Never stop writing your beautiful poetry!<br />I love it. Makes me happy and stimulates my<br />Thinking and 'intellectual vision'.<br />You are the best! <br />Love your rhymes and metaphors and ideas.<br />All the best!<br />Your friend,<br />Jim<br />JamesKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09911177385324152842noreply@blogger.com