The Disk or Women Who March nonviolently.

I wrote this January 2017. This March was filled with foresight for our future. Now again women are signed up to vote. More than history has every known. It is up to us.

Never in our history has there been a bigger March… a nonviolent one. I am so grateful that it happened and I hope it will change our future … we know we must vote. For Justice, humanity, our rights, ecology, equality… all the good things for all of us, not just a few of us. Not for hate, violence, injustice, corruption or racism or sexism.

“I become irritated at the attempt to govern mankind by force and fraud, as if they were all knaves and fools.”

Thomas Paine

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The sun a disk of light. The flowers of purple nectar. My mind reflects. I am here. Yet, I am also with the women marching today…

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Flower Pussy Power… watercolor by Hudley

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Today was the Women’s March

Many cities and even in Washington DC

They are marching …

I felt connected to it all-

Yet today we cleaned the gutters,

As husband was on the roof

With a long powerful hose,

I waited to clean

the dark

Mud leaves and earthy smelling mire-slush.

As I waited,

I investigated the pool

Clean and blue

I saw the sun

A round perfect sun.

Bright and surrounded

By clouds

as many cauliflowers

And I thought…

“How lovely and bright the sun is, will it hurt my eyes to stare so long?”

I kept looking into the pool

Watching the sun.

A reflection in a clean pool.

A crow flew between us,

The whole reflection and my single view of the sun.

Droplets from the power hose

Rippled in the pool water

I looked away…

A hummingbird stopped in front of me,

Long enough to see a red beating breast.

Then was gone.

I gazed at the sun

The grey clouds

The ripples in the clean pool.

I also thought upon the women’s march…

Earlier, I was in front of my home

I studied the falling rosemary

Exploding with fresh, delicate purple flowers.

The rain also brought the many marching honeybees.

The sun a disk of light. The flowers of purple nectar. My mind reflects. I am here. Yet, I am also with the women marching today…

Today was the Women’s March

Many cities and even in Washington DC

They marched…

Jan./ 22/17 Hudley Flipside