Interdependence

How to make the world great again — an exploration through tanka

I sign I spotted on a run in November

Interdependence
five syllables then seven
tanka’s metaphor
while I don’t need anyone
each one and all need others

make each other great
cooperate to survive
all yields the fittest
how easily they forget
e pluribus unum rules

the human species
survival of shittiest
deevolution
is that why souls incarnate
to remember whence arose

gaiadynamics
plants animals and fungi
all from same stardust
can’t survive without others
symbiotes best predators

These poems came to mind this morning after reading a very interesting and informative article by

Romaric Jannel

, How a Japanese Scientist Took on Darwin and Won, Imanishi Kinji’s Innovative Environmental Philosophy of Coexistence; and downing some wine.

Conclusion: Life as Interdependence

Unlike Halstead’s rigid…