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Every New Year's I think of this poem from Marge Piercy:

"How much have
I dared in opposition?

How much have I put
on the line for freedom?
For mine and others?
As these freedoms are pared,
sliced and diced, where

have I spoken out?"
Poetry Foundation Search Poems & Poets Topics & Themes Features Events & Programs About Us Poetry magazine December 2025 Subscribe The birthday of the world By Marge Piercy On the birthday of the world I begin to contemplate what I have done and left undone, but this year not so much rebuilding of my perennially damaged psyche, shoring up eroding friendships, digging out stumps of old resentments that refuse to rot on their own. No, this year I want to call myself to task for what I have done and not done for peace. How much have I dared in opposition? How much have I put on the line for freedom? For mine and others? As these freedoms are pared, sliced and diced, where have I spoken out? Who have I tried to move? In this holy season, I stand self-convicted of sloth in a time when lies choke the mind and rhetoric bends reason to slithering choking pythons. Here I stand before the gates opening, the fire dazzling my eyes, and as I approach what judges me, I judge myself. Give me weapons of minute destruction. Let my words turn into sparks. Poetry Foundation Search Poems & Poets Topics & Themes Features Events & Programs About Us Poetry magazine December 2025 Subscribe The birthday of the world By Marge Piercy On the birthday of the world I begin to contemplate what I have done and left undone, but this year not so much rebuilding of my perennially damaged psyche, shoring up eroding friendships, digging out stumps of old resentments that refuse to rot on their own. No, this year I want to call myself to task for what I have done and not done for peace. How much have I dared in opposition? How much have I put on the line for freedom? For mine and others? As these freedoms are pared, sliced and diced, where have I spoken out? Who have I tried to move? In this holy season, I stand self-convicted of sloth in a time when lies choke the mind and rhetoric bends reason to slithering choking pythons. Here I stand before the gates opening, the fire dazzling my eyes, and as I approach what judges me, I judge myself. Give me weapons of minute destruction. Let my words turn into sparks.
December 31, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Celebrating Day 6 of “I got new glasses and no one noticed”
December 31, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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A digital homage/ripoff of Magritte’s painting ‘The Treachery of Images’. An image of a brown and black tobacco pipe with a curved stem sits isolated on a plain tan field. Below the pipe in black cursive handwriting is the phrase ‘Peut-être que cela arrivera aujourd'hui’ which I sincerely hope is an adequate French translation of ‘Maybe it will happen today’
May 28, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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See you in court.
Our community continues to be shocked and devastated by the events on Eureka Street as our country staggers from political upheaval. It is frustrating to now be targeted by this criminal prosecution as well. I am a mother, an immigrant and elected leader who attempted, along with other Worcester residents, to protect a traumatized young person, two mothers and an infant. I did the humane thing to do in this situation, nothing more, nothing less. My life's calling has been to help others. I am a former refugee who fled and escaped violence. I, like too many others in our city, have previously lived through the nightly terrors of whisper campaigns, street round-ups and disappeared neighbors, which I experienced when I lived in Albania and Greece. It is frightening that the same type of conduct is now a reality in this country. Protecting the most vulnerable should not lead to being targeted and vilified. And working to improve policing in our city by calling for oversight and accountability should not provoke political grandstanding and attacks. I look forward to responding to these charges in court.
June 4, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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please enjoy the surrealist masterpiece that is my @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social cover reveal
February 27, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Come at me 2025
Paper slip from a fortune cookie reads “Love is a powerful force.”
January 1, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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If depression were a Christmas tree
November 18, 2024 at 11:56 PM