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Awakening to the Red Road: An Ecopoetic Odyssey 'Part 1 of 6'
"Awakening to the Red Road: An Ecopoetic Odyssey"
I. Anthropocentric Dissonance
- Daniel Henry Rodgers
Within ancient woodlands, where echoes rumble,
We hush the murmuring trees — for fleeting gains:
Humans, self-appointed sovereigns, decree
What flourishes, what withers, evolving into a species
Whose hubris depletes the world's intrinsic worth.
Blind to the innate value, all deemed expendable
In our egocentric crusades. Like the Haudenosaunee
Revering their Great Tree, we must heed
The Peacemaker's teachings — embracing
Life's interconnectedness, lest our path leads
To the eternal silence of nature's cease.
Our deeds, a dissonance,
A discord in the harmonics of life.
Yet, in the heart of this discord, hope stirs —
A call to symmetry, a plea for balance, urgent and clear.
For if we fail to heed this call,
The silence of the woods will become our own.
Copyright ©
Daniel Henry Rodgers
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