I pledge allegiance to...
The boundless infinities above, beyond, below, within.
Mike
Silver Spring, Maryland
I pledge allegiance to...
The boundless infinities above, beyond, below, within.
Mike
Silver Spring, Maryland
Poets for Science
Traveling Stanzas | www.travelingstanzas.com
I pledge allegiance to...
The unknown knowledge of space
A mystery yet to be uncovered
Another world in disguise
Millions, billions, trillions of stars, not all to be seen.
Kai M
Kent
I pledge allegiance to...
The unknown knowledge of space
A mystery yet to be uncovered
Another world in disguise
Millions, billions, trillions of stars, not all to be seen.
Kai M
Kent
Poets for Science
Traveling Stanzas | www.travelingstanzas.com
I pledge allegiance to...
the spirit of knowledge gain and usage,
towards scientific discovery,
via nature examination of humankind and other species,
to grow the vast knowledge and scientific discovery by all Black persons (male/female) who came before me,
to expand the freedoms and knowledge all persons (male/female) should have/experience,
to grow this world as it advances over the entirety of time,
without exclusion, exception, disregard, and any other negative that precludes their inclusion to...
LIFE'S LEARNING & EXPANSION OF MINDS, SPIRITS, & HEARTS GLOBALLY!!
Ms. Dorcus Johnson, KSU i-School Graduate MLIS DH & AS Student
Cleveland, Ohio
I pledge allegiance to...
the spirit of knowledge gain and usage,
towards scientific discovery,
via nature examination of humankind and other species,
to grow the vast knowledge and scientific discovery by all Black persons (male/female) who came before me,
to expand the freedoms and knowledge all persons (male/female) should have/experience,
to grow this world as it advances over the entirety of time,
without exclusion, exception, disregard, and any other negative that precludes their inclusion to...
LIFE'S LEARNING & EXPANSION OF MINDS, SPIRITS, & HEARTS GLOBALLY!!
Ms. Dorcus Johnson, KSU i-School Graduate MLIS DH & AS Student
Cleveland, Ohio
Poets for Science
Traveling Stanzas | www.travelingstanzas.com
I pledge allegiance to...
The joy in the cell, the curiosity in the flight, the ever-unfolding imagination in this day and night.
Christine Cock
Spring Lake
I pledge allegiance to...
The joy in the cell, the curiosity in the flight, the ever-unfolding imagination in this day and night.
Christine Cock
Spring Lake
Poets for Science
Traveling Stanzas | www.travelingstanzas.com
I pledge allegiance to...
I pledge allegiance to
the artist that is nature
I pledge my beingness to
the blue kingfisher that
sits on a branch before
a pond waiting and
watching like a poet
looking for something
to write on. He knows
the men who throw nets
weighed down with shells
at the edges and then pull
it up to fill their baskets
with sparse fish for supper
He knows too the snakes
that snake through the surface,
the cranes that disappear
behind leaves, their
spindly legs perfectly
mistakable as stalks of
watery leaves, the goats
that graze on the bank
beside the braids of trees
that touch down to the
water like Narcissus
bending his head down
to stare at his green image.
He knows the spa routine
of the ducks that ride the
pond like trains and collect
together at an end where
they bob up and down
with the little ripples
borrowed from oceans
and duck under the water,
rise up, shake their heads
and gobble up insects
And when it is time for
the dabblers to chain back
to the banks and wade up
the steps towards home,
he turns his head to me
‘I am you,’ he says
and he tells me all
that he knows of poetry
Srabani
Kolkata
I pledge allegiance to...
I pledge allegiance to
the artist that is nature
I pledge my beingness to
the blue kingfisher that
sits on a branch before
a pond waiting and
watching like a poet
looking for something
to write on. He knows
the men who throw nets
weighed down with shells
at the edges and then pull
it up to fill their baskets
with sparse fish for supper
He knows too the snakes
that snake through the surface,
the cranes that disappear
behind leaves, their
spindly legs perfectly
mistakable as stalks of
watery leaves, the goats
that graze on the bank
beside the braids of trees
that touch down to the
water like Narcissus
bending his head down
to stare at his green image.
He knows the spa routine
of the ducks that ride the
pond like trains and collect
together at an end where
they bob up and down
with the little ripples
borrowed from oceans
and duck under the water,
rise up, shake their heads
and gobble up insects
And when it is time for
the dabblers to chain back
to the banks and wade up
the steps towards home,
he turns his head to me
‘I am you,’ he says
and he tells me all
that he knows of poetry
Srabani
Kolkata
Poets for Science
Traveling Stanzas | www.travelingstanzas.com
I pledge allegiance to...
the blessed entanglements of everything: the beauty of rhizomes
rolling and binding with each other,
the inventiveness of a red cedar
drawing in and breathing out water,
the Moroccan observing this and harvesting fog on a mountaintop
above the sea,
I pledge allegiance to inhalation, exhalation, transpiration, inspiration and experimentation
To all the invisible and conspicuous workings of earth committed to compensating the world they are part of and the world that they are
Vincent Hostak
I pledge allegiance to...
the blessed entanglements of everything: the beauty of rhizomes
rolling and binding with each other,
the inventiveness of a red cedar
drawing in and breathing out water,
the Moroccan observing this and harvesting fog on a mountaintop
above the sea,
I pledge allegiance to inhalation, exhalation, transpiration, inspiration and experimentation
To all the invisible and conspicuous workings of earth committed to compensating the world they are part of and the world that they are
Vincent Hostak
Poets for Science
Traveling Stanzas | www.travelingstanzas.com
I pledge allegiance to...
the blessed entanglements of everything:
the beauty of rhizomes rolling and binding with each other,
teh invention conveyed by the red cedars drawing in and breathing out water,
the Moroccan observing this and harvesting fog on a mountaintop above the sea,
I pledge allegiance to inhalation, exhalation, transpiration, inspiration and experimentation
To all the invisible and conspicuous workings of earth committed to compensation for the world they are part of and the world that they are
Vincent Hostak
Denver
I pledge allegiance to...
the blessed entanglements of everything:
the beauty of rhizomes rolling and binding with each other,
teh invention conveyed by the red cedars drawing in and breathing out water,
the Moroccan observing this and harvesting fog on a mountaintop above the sea,
I pledge allegiance to inhalation, exhalation, transpiration, inspiration and experimentation
To all the invisible and conspicuous workings of earth committed to compensation for the world they are part of and the world that they are
Vincent Hostak
Denver
Poets for Science
Traveling Stanzas | www.travelingstanzas.com
I pledge allegiance to...
I pledge allegiance to the animals
I am kin with, share emotions with,
inhabit this one earth with—indivisible,
with liberty and justice for all.
Lisa Reidy Harter
Sandy Spring, Maryland
I pledge allegiance to...
I pledge allegiance to the animals
I am kin with, share emotions with,
inhabit this one earth with—indivisible,
with liberty and justice for all.
Lisa Reidy Harter
Sandy Spring, Maryland
Poets for Science
Traveling Stanzas | www.travelingstanzas.com
I pledge allegiance to...
The magic of the four elements and the cardinal directions
John Harrington
Stacy, MN
I pledge allegiance to...
The magic of the four elements and the cardinal directions
John Harrington
Stacy, MN
Poets for Science
Traveling Stanzas | www.travelingstanzas.com
I pledge allegiance to...
the cardinal bending a new branch
of the sycamore that shades
the cold, chattering creek:
this is Time. the old rocks,
the brief ear & eye, the possibly
eternal water
ann pai
I pledge allegiance to...
the cardinal bending a new branch
of the sycamore that shades
the cold, chattering creek:
this is Time. the old rocks,
the brief ear & eye, the possibly
eternal water
ann pai
Poets for Science
Traveling Stanzas | www.travelingstanzas.com
I pledge allegiance to...
crumbled earth under my finger nails
Tina M. MWP
Rockville, MD
I pledge allegiance to...
crumbled earth under my finger nails
Tina M. MWP
Rockville, MD
Poets for Science
Traveling Stanzas | www.travelingstanzas.com
I pledge allegiance to...
The earth
-
Bryn Mawr PA
I pledge allegiance to...
The earth
-
Bryn Mawr PA
Poets for Science
Traveling Stanzas | www.travelingstanzas.com
I pledge allegiance to...
I pledge alleiance to the Northern rocks inside mme and the north star. If I head North I'll carry you with me like I always have. Kathy Evans
Kathy Evans
I pledge allegiance to...
I pledge alleiance to the Northern rocks inside mme and the north star. If I head North I'll carry you with me like I always have. Kathy Evans
Kathy Evans
Poets for Science
Traveling Stanzas | www.travelingstanzas.com
I pledge allegiance to...
the rhythm of the seasons. The inhale and exhale of time as the cycle of life plays on repeat.
Carly
Mill Valley, Ca
I pledge allegiance to...
the rhythm of the seasons. The inhale and exhale of time as the cycle of life plays on repeat.
Carly
Mill Valley, Ca
Poets for Science
Traveling Stanzas | www.travelingstanzas.com
I pledge allegiance to...
all my relations - the plants, animals, rocks and waters
Chris Francis
Benicia
I pledge allegiance to...
all my relations - the plants, animals, rocks and waters
Chris Francis
Benicia
Poets for Science
Traveling Stanzas | www.travelingstanzas.com
I pledge allegiance to...
Always learning, Always discovering, Always finding. I pledge allegience to wishing and hoping and reaching. I vow to care for and about the trees and the flowers and the bees and the fish. I vow to be amazed by the shapes the clouds take one and the shapes this natural earth makes. I vow all of these things because if I dont, there will be no earth for me to live on. There will be no bees for me to run from, no spiders for me to be afraid of, no dandelions waiting for a puff of air from my lungs. There will be no birds chirping, no trees taking root, no snakes slithering through the underbrush, nothing for those non existant snakes to hunt. There will be nothing natural and that is when people will finally see their mistake. That is when they will beg for help. When it is too late. So I vow to help before there is nothing left.
Aron
I pledge allegiance to...
Always learning, Always discovering, Always finding. I pledge allegience to wishing and hoping and reaching. I vow to care for and about the trees and the flowers and the bees and the fish. I vow to be amazed by the shapes the clouds take one and the shapes this natural earth makes. I vow all of these things because if I dont, there will be no earth for me to live on. There will be no bees for me to run from, no spiders for me to be afraid of, no dandelions waiting for a puff of air from my lungs. There will be no birds chirping, no trees taking root, no snakes slithering through the underbrush, nothing for those non existant snakes to hunt. There will be nothing natural and that is when people will finally see their mistake. That is when they will beg for help. When it is too late. So I vow to help before there is nothing left.
Aron
Poets for Science
Traveling Stanzas | www.travelingstanzas.com
I pledge allegiance to...
To write my poems with a mind/ of science, metaphorically speaking, / to investigate the beautiful unseen/ and launch it into the known.
Myra Dorrell
Cape Cod, MA
I pledge allegiance to...
To write my poems with a mind/ of science, metaphorically speaking, / to investigate the beautiful unseen/ and launch it into the known.
Myra Dorrell
Cape Cod, MA
Poets for Science
Traveling Stanzas | www.travelingstanzas.com
I pledge allegiance to...
I pledge allegiance to the Earth under my feet
and all that lives on it or below it
to the roots and leaves, to all that lives
Robbi Nester
I pledge allegiance to...
I pledge allegiance to the Earth under my feet
and all that lives on it or below it
to the roots and leaves, to all that lives
Robbi Nester
Poets for Science
Traveling Stanzas | www.travelingstanzas.com
I pledge allegiance to...
the frogs and toads surviving drought, waiting to burst forth when the rains come
Anne Canright
Monterey, California
I pledge allegiance to...
the frogs and toads surviving drought, waiting to burst forth when the rains come
Anne Canright
Monterey, California
Poets for Science
Traveling Stanzas | www.travelingstanzas.com
I pledge allegiance to...
To that which is true
enough to never last
and formless enough
to weather eternity.
Jamie K. Reaser
Schuyler
I pledge allegiance to...
To that which is true
enough to never last
and formless enough
to weather eternity.
Jamie K. Reaser
Schuyler
Poets for Science
Traveling Stanzas | www.travelingstanzas.com
I pledge allegiance to...
The power of gravity’s imposing pull
Alessandro
Los Angeles
I pledge allegiance to...
The power of gravity’s imposing pull
Alessandro
Los Angeles
Poets for Science
Traveling Stanzas | www.travelingstanzas.com
I pledge allegiance to...
I pledge allegiance to old growth forests,
partnered through soil and specie,
You are the carbon soul of soil,
a mother leading seed
in mycorrhizal connection,
under leaf-sky canopy,
with aerobic symbioses for all
Alycia Calvert
Binghamton, New York
I pledge allegiance to...
I pledge allegiance to old growth forests,
partnered through soil and specie,
You are the carbon soul of soil,
a mother leading seed
in mycorrhizal connection,
under leaf-sky canopy,
with aerobic symbioses for all
Alycia Calvert
Binghamton, New York
Poets for Science
Traveling Stanzas | www.travelingstanzas.com
I pledge allegiance to...
Quantum mechanics
And superposition,
Cats who are both dead and alive
And the version of myself
Whose ashes sit on my sister's mantle.
San Diego
I pledge allegiance to...
Quantum mechanics
And superposition,
Cats who are both dead and alive
And the version of myself
Whose ashes sit on my sister's mantle.
San Diego
Poets for Science
Traveling Stanzas | www.travelingstanzas.com
I pledge allegiance to...
I pledge allegiance to the xenos, be they text, gender, or pronouns.
Alex King De Cantu
San Diego
I pledge allegiance to...
I pledge allegiance to the xenos, be they text, gender, or pronouns.
Alex King De Cantu
San Diego
Poets for Science
Traveling Stanzas | www.travelingstanzas.com
I pledge allegiance to...
loyalty to friends
I pledge allegiance to...
loyalty to friends
Poets for Science
Traveling Stanzas | www.travelingstanzas.com
I pledge allegiance to...
the narrative
I pledge allegiance to...
the narrative
Poets for Science
Traveling Stanzas | www.travelingstanzas.com
I pledge allegiance to...
Gary held me up on my way upstream to the end of my journey, his legs, obstreperous tree trunks blocking the way. I had to bite him on the ankle and he jumped but his poem was strong, undeterred. As was I. Good guy that he is, he wished me well indeed on my quest for the headwaters.
I pledge allegiance to...
Gary held me up on my way upstream to the end of my journey, his legs, obstreperous tree trunks blocking the way. I had to bite him on the ankle and he jumped but his poem was strong, undeterred. As was I. Good guy that he is, he wished me well indeed on my quest for the headwaters.
Poets for Science
Traveling Stanzas | www.travelingstanzas.com
I pledge allegiance to...
delicate root systems of the saguaros
how to: expand in sun
Drink
splinter scorpions into the rock
and moon moon moon
the cloud of monsoons rush of
flooding of this land ~
my grandmother tending citrus the
stick of bark sunscreen on her
fingertips
Phoenix
I pledge allegiance to...
delicate root systems of the saguaros
how to: expand in sun
Drink
splinter scorpions into the rock
and moon moon moon
the cloud of monsoons rush of
flooding of this land ~
my grandmother tending citrus the
stick of bark sunscreen on her
fingertips
Phoenix
Poets for Science
Traveling Stanzas | www.travelingstanzas.com
I pledge allegiance to...
The moment when you remember you are nature, there is no separation or space
Amber B.
Pittsburgh
I pledge allegiance to...
The moment when you remember you are nature, there is no separation or space
Amber B.
Pittsburgh
Poets for Science
Traveling Stanzas | www.travelingstanzas.com
I pledge allegiance to...
Human decomposition and donating our dead bodies to science <3
Abigail
Seattle
I pledge allegiance to...
Human decomposition and donating our dead bodies to science <3
Abigail
Seattle
Poets for Science
Traveling Stanzas | www.travelingstanzas.com
I pledge allegiance to...
The world in all its blue waters,
Viridian leaves atop lemon trees,
And the robins with their reddish orange
Plumes flying over bumbles’ lavender.
Mel Jones
Portland, Maine
I pledge allegiance to...
The world in all its blue waters,
Viridian leaves atop lemon trees,
And the robins with their reddish orange
Plumes flying over bumbles’ lavender.
Mel Jones
Portland, Maine
Poets for Science
Traveling Stanzas | www.travelingstanzas.com
I pledge allegiance to...
The Apes behind glass I’ve seen all my life who show us how similar we really are, how close to nature we really could be.
Gail
Boston
I pledge allegiance to...
The Apes behind glass I’ve seen all my life who show us how similar we really are, how close to nature we really could be.
Gail
Boston
Poets for Science
Traveling Stanzas | www.travelingstanzas.com
I pledge allegiance to...
The trees
Hannah Ariesen
Las Vegas, NV
I pledge allegiance to...
The trees
Hannah Ariesen
Las Vegas, NV
Poets for Science
Traveling Stanzas | www.travelingstanzas.com
I pledge allegiance to...
The Gods of Art, who may or may exist but nevertheless make their presence known.
Amy
Seattle
I pledge allegiance to...
The Gods of Art, who may or may exist but nevertheless make their presence known.
Amy
Seattle
Poets for Science
Traveling Stanzas | www.travelingstanzas.com
I pledge allegiance to...
Truthtelling about the body, about
the planet, answers found while
looking for that glowing intersection
lit by all the suns and supernovas, all the candles burning in loss and memory, all the cells fighting the cytokine storms—
that junction of questions hiding under
the roots of thistles asserting unapologetic
through cracks in the asphalt, a portal:
“How do we heal the healers”
“How do we heal the planet”
“How do we save ourselves”
Tamara Kaye Sellman
Kingston, Wa
I pledge allegiance to...
Truthtelling about the body, about
the planet, answers found while
looking for that glowing intersection
lit by all the suns and supernovas, all the candles burning in loss and memory, all the cells fighting the cytokine storms—
that junction of questions hiding under
the roots of thistles asserting unapologetic
through cracks in the asphalt, a portal:
“How do we heal the healers”
“How do we heal the planet”
“How do we save ourselves”
Tamara Kaye Sellman
Kingston, Wa
Poets for Science
Traveling Stanzas | www.travelingstanzas.com
I pledge allegiance to...
The waters of Yanaguana, and the fresh water springs called sacred by my people.
Joyous Windrider Jiménez
San Antonio, TX
I pledge allegiance to...
The waters of Yanaguana, and the fresh water springs called sacred by my people.
Joyous Windrider Jiménez
San Antonio, TX
Poets for Science
Traveling Stanzas | www.travelingstanzas.com
I pledge allegiance to...
The estuaries, the in-between spaces, queer folks, us in-between people, brackish and alive and alight.
Em Palughi
Fairhope, Alabama
I pledge allegiance to...
The estuaries, the in-between spaces, queer folks, us in-between people, brackish and alive and alight.
Em Palughi
Fairhope, Alabama
Poets for Science
Traveling Stanzas | www.travelingstanzas.com
I pledge allegiance to...
Plant medicine
Johnson, VT
I pledge allegiance to...
Plant medicine
Johnson, VT
Poets for Science
Traveling Stanzas | www.travelingstanzas.com
I pledge allegiance to...
Space! I value the not knowing star wisdom
Emma
Hummelstown
I pledge allegiance to...
Space! I value the not knowing star wisdom
Emma
Hummelstown
Poets for Science
Traveling Stanzas | www.travelingstanzas.com
I pledge allegiance to...
New knowledge and understanding when you thought all was known about the natural world. Curiosity, perseverance, open mindedness, diligence.
Rebecca
Seattle
I pledge allegiance to...
New knowledge and understanding when you thought all was known about the natural world. Curiosity, perseverance, open mindedness, diligence.
Rebecca
Seattle
Poets for Science
Traveling Stanzas | www.travelingstanzas.com
I pledge allegiance to...
Continue to push forward in trying to learn to code and create.
To make something more than myself. To show the world more enjoyment.
Kathryn
Akron
I pledge allegiance to...
Continue to push forward in trying to learn to code and create.
To make something more than myself. To show the world more enjoyment.
Kathryn
Akron
Poets for Science
Traveling Stanzas | www.travelingstanzas.com
I pledge allegiance to...
I pledge allegiance to the stars
The giant balls of gras and elements that make our worlds turn
The bright lights that shine through our sky to guide us to our destinations
The fusion that creates the materials from which we are made
I pledge allegiance to the star dust from which we are made
Olivia Kupper
Akron
I pledge allegiance to...
I pledge allegiance to the stars
The giant balls of gras and elements that make our worlds turn
The bright lights that shine through our sky to guide us to our destinations
The fusion that creates the materials from which we are made
I pledge allegiance to the star dust from which we are made
Olivia Kupper
Akron
Poets for Science
Traveling Stanzas | www.travelingstanzas.com
I pledge allegiance to...
That there’s a lot to learn and you can never stop learning about it. It helps us live. I’ve touched lichens. They all feel so different.
Clara
Mogadore
I pledge allegiance to...
That there’s a lot to learn and you can never stop learning about it. It helps us live. I’ve touched lichens. They all feel so different.
Clara
Mogadore
Poets for Science
Traveling Stanzas | www.travelingstanzas.com
I pledge allegiance to...
Connecting the ethos of nature and being
I pledge allegiance to...
Connecting the ethos of nature and being
Poets for Science
Traveling Stanzas | www.travelingstanzas.com
I pledge allegiance to...
The ability of nature to keep going
Blaise
I pledge allegiance to...
The ability of nature to keep going
Blaise
Poets for Science
Traveling Stanzas | www.travelingstanzas.com
I pledge allegiance to...
Remember the humanity that exists in science and it’s connection to individuals and the larger world
Alex
Kent ohio
I pledge allegiance to...
Remember the humanity that exists in science and it’s connection to individuals and the larger world
Alex
Kent ohio
Poets for Science
Traveling Stanzas | www.travelingstanzas.com
I pledge allegiance to...
I pledge to leave the space I occupy better than I left it because the world is bigger than just me.
I pledge allegiance to...
I pledge to leave the space I occupy better than I left it because the world is bigger than just me.
Poets for Science
Traveling Stanzas | www.travelingstanzas.com
I pledge allegiance to...
Medical advances to help the most ill
AEK
I pledge allegiance to...
Medical advances to help the most ill
AEK
Poets for Science
Traveling Stanzas | www.travelingstanzas.com
I pledge allegiance to...
The unattainable order of the Periodic Table
Alessandra
Ciudad Juarez, México
I pledge allegiance to...
The unattainable order of the Periodic Table
Alessandra
Ciudad Juarez, México
Poets for Science
Traveling Stanzas | www.travelingstanzas.com
I pledge allegiance to...
Clarity of thought and purpose
ML
Rochester, NY
I pledge allegiance to...
Clarity of thought and purpose
ML
Rochester, NY
Poets for Science
Traveling Stanzas | www.travelingstanzas.com
I pledge allegiance to...
The spiders, tangling their silken webs across fingered branches, cocooning their prey in gossamer coffin.
Lauren E Osborn
Stillwater, OK
I pledge allegiance to...
The spiders, tangling their silken webs across fingered branches, cocooning their prey in gossamer coffin.
Lauren E Osborn
Stillwater, OK
Poets for Science
Traveling Stanzas | www.travelingstanzas.com
I pledge allegiance to...
Paw and hoof pressed into wet sand, the locomotion of belly facing ground. Grace of canid, silent padding of felid, traversing dune and scoop of dune
River Elizabeth Hall
Seattle
I pledge allegiance to...
Paw and hoof pressed into wet sand, the locomotion of belly facing ground. Grace of canid, silent padding of felid, traversing dune and scoop of dune
River Elizabeth Hall
Seattle
Poets for Science
Traveling Stanzas | www.travelingstanzas.com
I pledge allegiance to...
Nature
Michelle walsh
Vernon
I pledge allegiance to...
Nature
Michelle walsh
Vernon
Poets for Science
Traveling Stanzas | www.travelingstanzas.com
I pledge allegiance to...
I love the feeling of the sun touching my skin in rivulets of radiance from the gracious sun god above
Elaina
Kent, Ohio
I pledge allegiance to...
I love the feeling of the sun touching my skin in rivulets of radiance from the gracious sun god above
Elaina
Kent, Ohio
Poets for Science
Traveling Stanzas | www.travelingstanzas.com
I pledge allegiance to...
The wild/urban interface
Doug
I pledge allegiance to...
The wild/urban interface
Doug
Poets for Science
Traveling Stanzas | www.travelingstanzas.com
I pledge allegiance to...
The Luna moths, their broad mint-green wings delivered from the otherworld, their fuzzy feelers brushing up against hot summer night skin, their eye-spots looking at us every which way.
Erin Robertson
Louisville, CO
I pledge allegiance to...
The Luna moths, their broad mint-green wings delivered from the otherworld, their fuzzy feelers brushing up against hot summer night skin, their eye-spots looking at us every which way.
Erin Robertson
Louisville, CO
Poets for Science
Traveling Stanzas | www.travelingstanzas.com
I pledge allegiance to...
The briny water of the Great Salt Lake
Whose saline sustains species so special
Whose water absorbs the summer sun
And keeps our valleys fertile
May she never run dry
Lauren Wigod
Salt Lake City
I pledge allegiance to...
The briny water of the Great Salt Lake
Whose saline sustains species so special
Whose water absorbs the summer sun
And keeps our valleys fertile
May she never run dry
Lauren Wigod
Salt Lake City
Poets for Science
Traveling Stanzas | www.travelingstanzas.com
I pledge allegiance to...
The sound of air rushing under the owl’s wings
Hush and sigh
Beat and rise
Fenn MacDonald
Vancouver WA
I pledge allegiance to...
The sound of air rushing under the owl’s wings
Hush and sigh
Beat and rise
Fenn MacDonald
Vancouver WA
Poets for Science
Traveling Stanzas | www.travelingstanzas.com
I pledge allegiance to...
The mountains above me
Dana Reeher
Pittsburgh
I pledge allegiance to...
The mountains above me
Dana Reeher
Pittsburgh
Poets for Science
Traveling Stanzas | www.travelingstanzas.com
I pledge allegiance to...
The pure sand beneath me, and the clear skies above
Nicole
Pittsburgh, PA
I pledge allegiance to...
The pure sand beneath me, and the clear skies above
Nicole
Pittsburgh, PA
Poets for Science
Traveling Stanzas | www.travelingstanzas.com
I pledge allegiance to...
Footsteps uncovered in the white sands of New Mexico from 22 thousand years ago.
Christopher Wick
Tucson
I pledge allegiance to...
Footsteps uncovered in the white sands of New Mexico from 22 thousand years ago.
Christopher Wick
Tucson
Poets for Science
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I pledge allegiance to...
The breath of the evergreens,
towering in the mountains, softening the Pacific Coast, giving life to the soul of wistful wanderers, returning to the Earth to forever sustain us.
Melissa F. Kaelin
Ann Arbor, Michigan
I pledge allegiance to...
The breath of the evergreens,
towering in the mountains, softening the Pacific Coast, giving life to the soul of wistful wanderers, returning to the Earth to forever sustain us.
Melissa F. Kaelin
Ann Arbor, Michigan
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I pledge allegiance to...
I pledge allegiance to the interpenetration of allegiances
Buzz Saw
Portland OR
I pledge allegiance to...
I pledge allegiance to the interpenetration of allegiances
Buzz Saw
Portland OR
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I pledge allegiance to...
the lulling drumbeat of collective
pulse, always existing, waiting
for us to acknowledge our power
and purpose as one breathing
planet of possibilities
alex petunia
los angeles
I pledge allegiance to...
the lulling drumbeat of collective
pulse, always existing, waiting
for us to acknowledge our power
and purpose as one breathing
planet of possibilities
alex petunia
los angeles
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I pledge allegiance to the land, the wind, the water, and sun. From the smallest critter to the tallest mammal. This spinning orb its own galaxy, may it continue to live on and on.
R. LOPEZ
I pledge allegiance to...
I pledge allegiance to the land, the wind, the water, and sun. From the smallest critter to the tallest mammal. This spinning orb its own galaxy, may it continue to live on and on.
R. LOPEZ
Poets for Science
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I pledge allegiance to...
that one ginkgo’s yellow rug of leaves, and the live oak’s low, spiraling branches, almost bowing.
RH
Pittsburgh
I pledge allegiance to...
that one ginkgo’s yellow rug of leaves, and the live oak’s low, spiraling branches, almost bowing.
RH
Pittsburgh
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I pledge allegiance to...
I pledge allegiance to a sky
Made of open
May it reflect
The earth beneath
Miriam Calleja
Birmingham
I pledge allegiance to...
I pledge allegiance to a sky
Made of open
May it reflect
The earth beneath
Miriam Calleja
Birmingham
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I pledge allegiance to...
I pledge allegiance to bare ground where my toes can feel the earth, the softness of old leaves and the prick of pine needles as the wind blows my unbound hair.
Sue Fagalde Lick
South Beach, Oregon
I pledge allegiance to...
I pledge allegiance to bare ground where my toes can feel the earth, the softness of old leaves and the prick of pine needles as the wind blows my unbound hair.
Sue Fagalde Lick
South Beach, Oregon
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I pledge allegiance to...
the nature of my youth, clean and clear and green and growing;
planting a future for my son, so that he can walk the stream in his father’s footsteps
Matt Lehman Wiens
McPherson, KS
I pledge allegiance to...
the nature of my youth, clean and clear and green and growing;
planting a future for my son, so that he can walk the stream in his father’s footsteps
Matt Lehman Wiens
McPherson, KS
Poets for Science
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I pledge allegiance to...
the beauty and variety of our planet
Provo
I pledge allegiance to...
the beauty and variety of our planet
Provo
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I pledge allegiance to...
the grass that gently caresses my feet, the breeze that whispers words of wisdom in my ears, the Sun that covers my nose & cheeks in kisses, the Moon that holds me close while i sleep. I pledge allegiance to Mother Earth & all her glory.
Mars Mancuso
Ada, Ohio
I pledge allegiance to...
the grass that gently caresses my feet, the breeze that whispers words of wisdom in my ears, the Sun that covers my nose & cheeks in kisses, the Moon that holds me close while i sleep. I pledge allegiance to Mother Earth & all her glory.
Mars Mancuso
Ada, Ohio
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I pledge allegiance to...
the slow growing moss
how patient its gentle touch
we could love like that all year
Alicia M.
new York
I pledge allegiance to...
the slow growing moss
how patient its gentle touch
we could love like that all year
Alicia M.
new York
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I pledge allegiance to...
the Ocean: our blue Mother whose womb we crawled out of, and whose widening mouth will eventually swallow us — Her belly is the origin and afterlife
Penehuro Williams (@pdub_22)
I pledge allegiance to...
the Ocean: our blue Mother whose womb we crawled out of, and whose widening mouth will eventually swallow us — Her belly is the origin and afterlife
Penehuro Williams (@pdub_22)
Poets for Science
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I pledge allegiance to...
Feet suctioned into pluff mud, nosed by oyster shells. Myriad critters slinking through cordgrass, a cooling sun rankling the unblued sky. Seeing this again tomorrow.
Hailey “Pell” Williams
Charleston, South Carolina
I pledge allegiance to...
Feet suctioned into pluff mud, nosed by oyster shells. Myriad critters slinking through cordgrass, a cooling sun rankling the unblued sky. Seeing this again tomorrow.
Hailey “Pell” Williams
Charleston, South Carolina
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I pledge allegiance to...
I pledge my heart and my work to save nature’s voices, words, and songs for now and for future generations.
Michele Battiste
Lafayette, CO
I pledge allegiance to...
I pledge my heart and my work to save nature’s voices, words, and songs for now and for future generations.
Michele Battiste
Lafayette, CO
Poets for Science
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I pledge allegiance to...
To the bees, flies, and dull brown moths who pollinate flowers and food flora. To the sparkling, shimmering sarcophagid flies who zoom in to lay eggs on fresh corpses and speed the journey from corporeal ashes to Gaia’s microbial dust.
Liz Dykstra
Shelton
I pledge allegiance to...
To the bees, flies, and dull brown moths who pollinate flowers and food flora. To the sparkling, shimmering sarcophagid flies who zoom in to lay eggs on fresh corpses and speed the journey from corporeal ashes to Gaia’s microbial dust.
Liz Dykstra
Shelton
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I pledge allegiance to...
The vastness of space, the minuscule, sometimes mirroring each other, elicit wonder and awe.
Kelly A. Harrison
San Jose
I pledge allegiance to...
The vastness of space, the minuscule, sometimes mirroring each other, elicit wonder and awe.
Kelly A. Harrison
San Jose
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I pledge allegiance to...
The sense of wonder, the stars bursting, the universes out there
Sayantika Mandal
Athens, Georgia
I pledge allegiance to...
The sense of wonder, the stars bursting, the universes out there
Sayantika Mandal
Athens, Georgia
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I pledge allegiance to...
The unknown
Natalia
El Paso
I pledge allegiance to...
The unknown
Natalia
El Paso
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I pledge allegiance to...
I pledge allegiance to the things not yet heard not yet seen and not yet experienced. I pledge allegiance to the imagination and a new scope of reality.
Ebani Welch
Doylestown
I pledge allegiance to...
I pledge allegiance to the things not yet heard not yet seen and not yet experienced. I pledge allegiance to the imagination and a new scope of reality.
Ebani Welch
Doylestown
Poets for Science
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I pledge allegiance to...
The connections to answers previously unknown
Julia Demtshuk
I pledge allegiance to...
The connections to answers previously unknown
Julia Demtshuk
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I pledge allegiance to...
The changing of the tides, moon-kiss on white sand
I pledge allegiance to...
The changing of the tides, moon-kiss on white sand
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I pledge allegiance to...
to the reality that every one of us is an aviary of experiences, and to the forgotten fossils at the foundation of free will.
Adhya
Seattle
I pledge allegiance to...
to the reality that every one of us is an aviary of experiences, and to the forgotten fossils at the foundation of free will.
Adhya
Seattle
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I pledge allegiance to...
Curiosity, eagerness, and being kindhearted
Elinor
Issaquah
I pledge allegiance to...
Curiosity, eagerness, and being kindhearted
Elinor
Issaquah
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I pledge allegiance to...
The unknown spawning waters of eels
I pledge allegiance to...
The unknown spawning waters of eels
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I pledge allegiance to...
I pledge allegiance to the lightness of clouds hanging heavy over the bay
Carrie
Akron
I pledge allegiance to...
I pledge allegiance to the lightness of clouds hanging heavy over the bay
Carrie
Akron
Poets for Science
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I pledge allegiance to...
Nudibranchs, their feast of color, flurrying along the cosm of sea floor, shining tiny warning signs along like neon stop lights dazzling the diver who sees without speaking.
Abigail Byrd
Knob Noster, MO
I pledge allegiance to...
Nudibranchs, their feast of color, flurrying along the cosm of sea floor, shining tiny warning signs along like neon stop lights dazzling the diver who sees without speaking.
Abigail Byrd
Knob Noster, MO
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I pledge allegiance to...
There’s always new exciting knowledge coming into the world.
Tanya
Palm Desert, CA
I pledge allegiance to...
There’s always new exciting knowledge coming into the world.
Tanya
Palm Desert, CA
Poets for Science
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I pledge allegiance to...
every interconnected thing:
cells, stardust, branch song,
red-tailed hawk,
sea-tumbled shells,
moss-covered stones—
every question pondering
the moment of wonder,
when our human touch softens,
kneels humbly at the feet
of Mother Earth
and listens.
Cristina M. R. Norcross
Oconomowoc, WI
I pledge allegiance to...
every interconnected thing:
cells, stardust, branch song,
red-tailed hawk,
sea-tumbled shells,
moss-covered stones—
every question pondering
the moment of wonder,
when our human touch softens,
kneels humbly at the feet
of Mother Earth
and listens.
Cristina M. R. Norcross
Oconomowoc, WI
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I pledge allegiance to...
transformation, we always were and forever will be, just in varied states.
Melody Passemante Powell
Lorton, Virginia
I pledge allegiance to...
transformation, we always were and forever will be, just in varied states.
Melody Passemante Powell
Lorton, Virginia
Poets for Science
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I pledge allegiance to...
the seal whose charcoal eyes check me out as I float with sugar kelp in my hair. He is looking for herring and hake in cloudy waters but he’s found me. A huge wave breaks across me and I can see the horseshoe bay of Trá Bán in the distance. Suddenly, the sea is a washing machine. I am tumbled into the waves. He barks and bellows across the roar of the surf. He’s very close now with his dark bull head. I float and turn quickly under his watch. I kick to shore through the foam. He is curious and circling me with his whole body moving like a wave. Does he know that old stories of babies found in shallow waters haunt my dreams? Scraps of white seal skin beside them, like a caul that protects from drowning. I am salty as I touch land. I tiptoe across the sand, compass jellyfish like aliens on the beach. I peel off my warm and tight neoprene skin, my blubber released to the fresh Donegal air. I wrap myself up in my thick dry robe fur. I wave to my seal, I stumble light-headed across jasper, shingle and sea glass. We are connected now by brine, breeze, and bravery
Jackie Gorman
Athlone, Ireland
I pledge allegiance to...
the seal whose charcoal eyes check me out as I float with sugar kelp in my hair. He is looking for herring and hake in cloudy waters but he’s found me. A huge wave breaks across me and I can see the horseshoe bay of Trá Bán in the distance. Suddenly, the sea is a washing machine. I am tumbled into the waves. He barks and bellows across the roar of the surf. He’s very close now with his dark bull head. I float and turn quickly under his watch. I kick to shore through the foam. He is curious and circling me with his whole body moving like a wave. Does he know that old stories of babies found in shallow waters haunt my dreams? Scraps of white seal skin beside them, like a caul that protects from drowning. I am salty as I touch land. I tiptoe across the sand, compass jellyfish like aliens on the beach. I peel off my warm and tight neoprene skin, my blubber released to the fresh Donegal air. I wrap myself up in my thick dry robe fur. I wave to my seal, I stumble light-headed across jasper, shingle and sea glass. We are connected now by brine, breeze, and bravery
Jackie Gorman
Athlone, Ireland
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I pledge allegiance to...
lessons taught only when I am listening
my backyard tree sheds her leaves
in heavy sheets she
drops them without fear
of never being herself again
she knows
who she is
even
when she is bare
Bridge
Baltimore
I pledge allegiance to...
lessons taught only when I am listening
my backyard tree sheds her leaves
in heavy sheets she
drops them without fear
of never being herself again
she knows
who she is
even
when she is bare
Bridge
Baltimore
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I pledge allegiance to...
the bigger picture
Meg
Annapolis
I pledge allegiance to...
the bigger picture
Meg
Annapolis
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I pledge allegiance to...
the responsible brokering of the science I love and the knowledge that I treasure to my community
Denice Wardrop
Annapolis MD
I pledge allegiance to...
the responsible brokering of the science I love and the knowledge that I treasure to my community
Denice Wardrop
Annapolis MD
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I pledge allegiance to...
the 300+ year old Bur Oak tree on The Wooded Island.
Terry Evans
Chicago
I pledge allegiance to...
the 300+ year old Bur Oak tree on The Wooded Island.
Terry Evans
Chicago
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I pledge allegiance to...
All of the innovative ideas my generation is creating
Victoria Arnold
Bowmanville
I pledge allegiance to...
All of the innovative ideas my generation is creating
Victoria Arnold
Bowmanville
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I pledge allegiance to...
Wonders of nature that gives me hope to make every today better than yesterday....
Anita
India
I pledge allegiance to...
Wonders of nature that gives me hope to make every today better than yesterday....
Anita
India
Poets for Science
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I pledge allegiance to...
All equations
from Newton to Einstein,
from mechanics to relativity, s
hort equations
measure the mass of all things,
concise symbols
show the mysteries of
everything going to each other,
from Maxwell to Schrodinger,
from electromagnetic equations
to quantum field theory,
graceful equations
reveal the trajectory of light,
strange wave-particle duality,
insight into the nature of
all things, energy, and space.
Jeremiah
Beijing
I pledge allegiance to...
All equations
from Newton to Einstein,
from mechanics to relativity, s
hort equations
measure the mass of all things,
concise symbols
show the mysteries of
everything going to each other,
from Maxwell to Schrodinger,
from electromagnetic equations
to quantum field theory,
graceful equations
reveal the trajectory of light,
strange wave-particle duality,
insight into the nature of
all things, energy, and space.
Jeremiah
Beijing
Poets for Science
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I pledge allegiance to...
All the discoveries in physics that broaden the horizon of mankind
jeremiah
Beijing
I pledge allegiance to...
All the discoveries in physics that broaden the horizon of mankind
jeremiah
Beijing
Poets for Science
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I pledge allegiance to...
The endless expanse of the Universe. The fundamentals of the cosmos. The beauty of the endless, everchanging sky.
I pledge allegiance to the treasure that is knowledge. Knowledge of the earth, knowledge of the stars, knowledge of the Universe.
Md Wasiul Sami Raiyan
Bangladesh
I pledge allegiance to...
The endless expanse of the Universe. The fundamentals of the cosmos. The beauty of the endless, everchanging sky.
I pledge allegiance to the treasure that is knowledge. Knowledge of the earth, knowledge of the stars, knowledge of the Universe.
Md Wasiul Sami Raiyan
Bangladesh
Poets for Science
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