ECOTOPIAN CONSTITUTION: a Declaration of Biocracy * #Poem by David Sparenberg

 

Blessed are you Earth.
Bless us with stability.
May we be as sovereign-strong
as the Earth is round.
Teach us to dwell perpetually
within the truths of life’s cycles:
grateful daily
generous to our very bones
with shining humility
in the way of reciprocity
To be without greed.
To live without war.

Blessed are you moderation
that we learn the
dignity of discipline
that we reinvent community
and local sustainability.
And prove to be trustworthy
of nature being natural.
And worthy of nature’s wisdom.

Blessed are you rain
that bestows on us
the joy of cleanliness – sufficiency
for spring planting
enough for autumn harvest.
Blessed are you gentle rain.
The fruits and the flowers
and our two legged people
have need of you.

Blessed are you wild herds
flourishing among us freely
across native grasslands
on slopes of majestic mountains
and in the teeming salmon-streams.

Blessed are you talking trees
forests as tall as prayers.
You give to our world
(where children play
and love is made and
there is hope) the precious
powerful gift of oxygen. Trees
you keep our unpolluted air
in sweet-breath.
And there is atmospheric balance.
Gracious thanks to tree! May
the forests grow old millennium around us.

Blessed are you the
pollen breathing voice of wind – the
serenity of spiraled stars at night the
hushed beatitude
of garden meditations.

Blessed is your heart and mine
and the miracle of heartbeats. Blessed
are our senses and our souls.
The dream of Earth’s healing
that together we are dreaming.
Like hobbits of the fabled shire.
Like singing elves of mercy.
Bless the work we are doing now.
Bless what is yet to be done.

Blessed is this grounding place
these intimate spaces
and future generations – citizens and
children – Earth walkers with genius
to make the dream of
Ecotopia come true.

Blessed are all of us whose
signatures are on this constitutional
document of our better selves
for a viable, a reliable, and biocratic future.

*Ecotopia, the futuristic autonomous territory of Ecotopia West (a down to Earth habitable utopia made up of the current states of Washington, Oregon, California & Hawaii) inspired by the novel ECOTOPIA by Ernest Callenback, UC Berkeley.

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David Sparenberg is a humanitarian and eco poet, an international essayist and storyteller. He published four eBooks with OVI Books (Sweden) and the Word Press in 2025, the fourth of which was TROUBADOUR & the Earth on Fire. David will have a fifth OVI eBook, MANIFESTO: Ecology, Spirituality & Politics in a Higher Octave, published in early spring, 2026. David Sparenberg lives in Seattle, WA in the Pacific Northwest of the United States but identifies as an Ecotopian & Citizen of Creation.

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