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| Umay Isik |
BIG TREES
There are so few of them
the Ents guarding the great, green forests have failed
chainsaws grind with impunity
whenever, wherever we foolish humans decide.
One has to travel to find any a’tall
a blue horse can carry you
a few still stand
and grow even taller, bigger, where
two humans cannot get their arms around them.
These found in the great verdant swales,
also mountain coves too hard to reach
in the Alps
or the Blue Ridge
perhaps in the Rocky Mountains
the journey difficult
loose grey and white stones are on rocky paths.
That is where The Bone Strikers make their stand
Battle-painted Kiowa military warriors
will fight the saws to the death.
They fight for the Earth. They fight for all of us.
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| Ray Whitaker |
Ray has four books published and two chapbooks. His work has been published in eleven different countries. Ray was a Delegate to the 2024 Writers’ International Panorama Festival. He participates regularly in several Zoom poetic events worldwide. Among them, he has been spotlighted on a US National Poetry broadcast from Quintessential Listening Poetry Online Radio in 2024, and also an International Poetry Recital hosted by The Fertile Minds out of India. In July 2025, he was the featured poet in David Leo Sirois’
Spoken World Online, which is associated with Spoken Word Paris.
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