Turtle (way of warrior) - who speaks for wolf?

[Bert Hopkins]

Peggy,

Your request triggered me to share the poem that is on my door, one that
my friend and I were reading aloud to one another up in the Olympics on
the morning of the 11th before coming down the mountain to discover a
changed world.  Not sure if it answers your questions, but....

The Bloody Sire

It is not bad.  Let them play.
Let the guns bark and the bombing-plane
Speak his prodigious blasphemies.
It is not bad, it is high time,
Stark violence is still the sire of all the world's values.

What but the wolf's tooth whittled so fine
The fleet limbs of the antelope?
What but fear winged the birds, and hunger
Jeweled with such eyes the great goshawk's head?
Violence has been the sire of all the world's values.

Who would remember Helen's face
Lacking the terrible halo of spears?
Who formed Christ but Herod and Caesar,
The cruel and bloody victories of Caesar?
Violence, the bloody sire of all the world's values.

Never weep, let them play,
Old violence is not too old to beget new values.

Robinson Jeffers, 1941

Peace,
Bert


OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU writes:
>I keep seeing polls that say something like 70-90% of Americans believe
>going to war is the right answer.  I haven't heard that voice expressed
>here.  Can someone speak that perspective from their heart?  And can the
>rest of us be courageous enough to hold the space open for it?  Who speaks
>for wolf?
>
>Peggy
>
>P.S.  John --  many, many thanks for the powerful posts you have provided
>during this time.

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