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Unique Short Story Poems With a Lyrical Twist David G. Outlasting my lifetime membership in the human race. I look onto the Lord, to name the time and place.
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Let us pray. Tippett: Marilyn Nelson was born in Cleveland, grew up in a military family. Tippett: So you left, and they went away. Your father was in the last graduating class of Tuskegee Airmen. We have a lot to learn from them. The moment we inhabit now is very fraught. I trusted authority.


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The second thing that strikes me in terms of the spiritual background of my childhood is the Stations of the Cross. And for ten years, I did the stations every day. The idea is to find hope in the practice of what seemed to be the worst. This is the way we need to move forward in a world that is so interested in being comforted by the damp blanket of bad stories. We need stories of belonging that move us towards each other, not from each other; ways of being human that open up the possibilities of being alive together; ways of navigating our differences that deepen our curiosity, that deepen our friendship, that deepen our capacity to disagree, that deepen the argument of being alive.

This is what we need. This is what will save us. This is the work of peace. This is the work of imagination. So to find a way to put mheas — respect — on the story requires a really muscular engagement with it.

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And one of the things you notice, these days, is people phone in. This is utterly predictable. People are speaking about things that matter and things that will hurt people and cause an increase in threat for particular individuals. And yet, we treat it with such lazy language. We erase our stories, we erase our existence. And learning how to tell the stories, learning how to understand the stories, what they teach us and what they can teach other people, is really the essence of our existence here, I suspect.

Tippett: Jen Bailey, who you all met last night, Rev. So this church has actually gone back and told more of its story. Nelson: Very unusual, I think, to have the courage required to tell those stories, to find what they teach.

This is a church which was founded — they just celebrated their th anniversary. The first pastor kept slaves in the parsonage, in the attic of the parsonage. Nobody remembers that now. And it was a painful responsibility handed to me to present these people with their own histories. I loved working on this project, but it was also full of shocks and disappointments. I wanted to believe better of humanity and was disappointed. Tippett: So what happens when a community — because I really do, I read this story and I think, this could be a template.

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And nobody knows how to begin or to go that far back, or, how far back do you go? And what was the experience, for them, to have this uncovered and to reclaim it as who they are and where they came from? Nelson: I only know from a few encounters with members of the congregation who thanked me for giving them their story. And to have an outsider come and point out to them the discrepancies between what they believe now and what was believed in the past was, probably, difficult for them. But it also, I think, was a way for them to appreciate where they came from and where they are now.

On the one hand, you can be proud of seeing that your ancestors turned away from a horribly inhumane institution, but on the other hand, you have to deal with the fact that they were in the middle of it. They were living in it.

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Tippett: Yeah, and it took years. Shame begins in the body. And then we put protections around it, and then curricula and policy and elections around shame.

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But it begins in the individual language of the body. It is like being arrested by something — it does stop you.

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And that is always difficult, but it is always true. Anything else fails us. You said, poetry emerges from silence. Nelson: One of the poems in my little book about this church history is about a time when the church, the meeting house, was burned down. Just want to talk a little bit about prayer as a form of words.

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Prayer is rhythm. Prayer is comfort. Prayer is disappointment. Prayer is words and shape and art around desperation and delight and disappointment and desire. So that book builds on a form of prayer that you find in the English-language liturgical traditions. Then you name your request. And then, you give a reason for your request, which folds back into the top. Then you finish with a little bird of praise. It makes you ask, what do I want? One thing — and how do I wrap that into a form that holds it, that reveals something back to me, rather than just a list of demands?

Not that you have to pray like this. And in poetry, form can hold the things in us that feel formless, and we can find space within form that, if we were to just say that we exist in space, for instance, we would never find that space. I think we have ways within which we seek to name the things about us. The compassion and kindness in that room — that was prayer. And that goes beyond how you articulate a devotion. It can be a deeply dignifying thing for the desires that we wish to name. You often write about Abba Jacob, who, I think — did you go to college with him?

Is that right? You went to college with him, and then he grew up to be Abba Jacob. Nelson: In my intuition, prayer is less speaking than it is listening. And I feel that my deepest experiences of prayer have been experiences of shutting up and listening. A friend of mine who is a minister was at a retreat once. The whole time during the retreat, they would talk, and then they would go to their rooms and pray. He was always talking to God. And that, for me, is what it is to be quiet enough to feel held, to feel the embrace of the divine, to realize that I am a part of something vaster than vast; and to feel that, to recognize that, to feel thankful for it, and to hope that by opening myself to that awareness, that I am allowing some of that to come through me.

I remember, once, during meditation, I had the image of being in a dark universe in which the only light was coming through people who allowed themselves to be open to the divine. We are the way light — wow, whose poem is that? And when we allow the love of the divine to enter us and come through us, we are offering something not only to ourselves, not only the answer to our own little prayers, but also, we are lighting the way.

Subscribe to On Being on Apple Podcasts to listen again and discover produced and unedited versions of everything we create. Marilyn is a poet and contemplative and the daughter of one of the last Tuskegee Airmen. She excavates stories that would rather stay hidden yet lead us into new life. We spoke at the On Being Gathering. Audience Member 1: Hi, thank you.