The prompt for our last meeting was:
What does the re-enchantment look like? What does liberation feel like? How will you recognize it? What will be unexpected about it? How did it get here and what did it change? What is it like to wake up and go to work in a re-enchanted, liberated world?
This is the New Moon we dedicated to the radical anti-capitalist magic of The Word in our book, New Moon Magic: 13 Anti-Capitalist Tools for Resistance and Re-Enchantment, and for this circle, we'll invite you to wield your mighty pen to help imagine liberation.
The output from this meeting was so fantastic, we've decided to compile it into this Zine post and share it with the world! What follows are poems and drawings created by the Missing Witches Coven during our last New Moon meeting!
From Melissa S.
From Rebekah
Body Liberation
Stretching and folding MY body in half
Releasing the secrets and
Mysteries in my muscles
Smelling my own blood
Having a moment... a check... a beat
Releasing the old fear of
Guarding my own gates
Inhaling my own scent deeply
Family Liberation
To the government that killed my family
FUCK YOU
Defiance
Is the truth possible or is it buried
In decades of outdated power
My voice is possible
Old stories do matter
That has not died
We are his liberated voice
That is not in the grave
My liberating word from scarcity: ENOUGH
There is enough
I am enough
Enough with these lies
There is enough
My liberating word from male dominated heteronormitive sexuality:
mmmmm MORE
What I wrote last night in response to the prompt of: "How will we know that the bright future is here?".
No sorrow. As the church hymn goes, "there'll be no sorrow there, no more burdens to bear".
But does that mean I will know less love as sorrow is love as well?
Or is it that love will be complete and sorrow obsolete?
Perhaps if I have sorrow I am already in the bright future because I am already in love.
The bright future is when the version of love that shows up like sorrow is shared, when our own sorrows are lighter because we are all not alone.
From Killian
I am Witch
I am plugged in
Electric body singing
Web vibrating
An imperceptible secret
Felt only by me
An interconnected weaving
The very fibers of my being
Refusing to be denied
Hidden in plain sight
Indelibly esoterically unstoppable
From Carly
From Vanessa
Radical Re-Enchanted Liberation
On the one Hand, almost unrecognizable
On the Other, let’s try.
We will recognize it when everyone is safe.
Every being, every insect, every rock.
When we care for our most vulnerable, we will
know it
has arrived.
It will look like cottonwood seeds dancing through the air.
It will look like the insects whose wings catch
the sun’s slanting rays at sundown.
It will look like a woman
/wearing anything she wants/
Going anywhere
She Wants.
Alone.
Without fear.
I have nothing radical to say here.
And yet, it is completely radical.
From Teela
When a stranger's smile
Is warmer than the sun
When my daughter
Can live without fear
When our children are safe
In public spaces
When community means more
And we can rely on each other
When people can live in harmony
Without hate and jealousy
When kindness is more important
Than appearances or status
When people can be
Whoever they want to be
And find acceptance and love
When it's normal to sing off key
And to dance in the rain
That is when I'll know
The right future Has arrived
From Jasmin
Found poetry: The kids are alright
You are responsible for your own algorithm
All pronouns are good pronouns
What’s in your wallet?
I have 45 butterflies in my wallet
I’m neurodivergent, you’re just going to have to deal with that!
My autism is autisming
My adhd is adhding
Ableism is really everywhere? Damn
The frozen soundtrack really slaps
What if we had to do school outside? Shut up you’ll jinx it!
I wanna fight you in the parking lot, as a joke
I want to ask that person out…do you think they like the same pokemon as me?
I actually learned something today
The Berlin wall…was a wall…in Berlin…
Can you love more than one person?
Can I like…change my mind?
Can I go home? I’m kind of done today y’know?People shouldn’t be houseless when there’s rich people down the street
Home come asparagus is like 10 bucks?
What would you do if you were a zombie?
It’s like I get you, y’know? You get me too
I feel like I want to hibernate
Hey look it’s sunny out!
Can everyone just shut the fuck up? She’s talkin!
See you tomorrow?
Thank you so much for everything you've done for me. I will never
forget you, I would not be where I am without you. I will still keep
in touch with you over email, maybe sometime we could go out to eat or
something. Thank you again.
