How to build a better world with MARGARET ATWOOD - Arthur Vaso's Blog

I will be posting a link to a video of which this poem is based, please have a look!

Atwoods Poetry

This is about what really works in the world, encouragement, positive re-enforcement, searching for solutions instead of seeking what’s wrong. Building, comforting, and bringing people together. That poetry inspires any part of this process, what a joy that is. Always look to those who build, create and till, you will find greatness and always such goodwill.

Poetic Rejoice

Musical notes become antidotes

Teachers become motivators of youthful hope

Symphonies become beacons from negative yoke

Musical notes dancing with poetic spoke

Wheels in the mind start yearning and turning

With praise and hope and endearments true

Reciting dreams and reciting creative desires

Making his peers expose their joyous tears

Running to better places

Knowing glory is in the effort of all smiling faces

Now hear is a young man, with goals afloat

Ignored those who tried to sink his boat

Glory sings when you see kindness ring

Not when you see little ones pretend a sting

His peers where drowned with happiness tears

Youth has its wisdom as teachers smiled in the rear

Triumph and victory all held dear

The boy was reciting a poem by Margaret Atwood a famous Canadian poet like me!

The Moment

The moment when, after many years
of hard work and a long voyage
you stand in the centre of your room,
house, half-acre, square mile, island, country,
knowing at last how you got there,
and say, I own this,

is the same moment when the trees unloose
their soft arms from around you,
the birds take back their language,
the cliffs fissure and collapse,
the air moves back from you like a wave
and you can't breathe.

No, they whisper. You own nothing.
You were a visitor, time after time
climbing the hill, planting the flag, proclaiming.
We never belonged to you.
You never found us.
It was always the other way round.

By Margret Atwood