poetry
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Mystical Morn
Jerusalem I sing to you A song of longing A song of lament A song of ancestors yet to be born A song of crucifixions Still being carried out in your holy name. Jerusalem I sing to you of justice gone awry– Of sacred soil so sacrosanct crystallized into coarse, unleavened bread that crumbles and Continue reading
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Message from Salmon-Sacred Beauty
Salmon Message – Sacred Beauty Sacred beauty comes From the heart of you When in judgement true Given from the heart of you You love all god’s creations – The big and the small, The infirm and the tall, With openhearted acceptance of them Just as they are. As you flow in your own life Continue reading
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Salmon Spirit Message #1
Salmon Spirit Message #1 My name is Salmon of the vibrant tribe – I ask you what it is that makes you happy, What it is that makes you feel alive? I don’t soar in the sky Like eagle feather – my friend spouse – And I don’t forage through the bushes and tress Like Continue reading
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Half past three of my life
Crystal Lake girl Sunshine boy Unruly child Hair in my eyes I try To get by In an upside world Where too much order reigns riot and out of sorts. Crystal Lake girl Sunshine boy That’s what I once was Before too many crimes I didn’t commit Passed before my eyes In ecstasies of feathered Continue reading
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Prayer for my Community
PRAYER FOR MY COMMUNITY Sharing a prayer I wrote for a ceremony that will appear in the 2016 WE ‘Moon Agenda. Dear community, we come to you small spirits on a winding path at the turning of these days, at the changing of the cycles. Please open the way for our small and humble Continue reading
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I
I I wanted to be other than I I wanted to be you and it and they Anything but I What a terrible I am I! I wanted to be other than I I wanted to be a rainbow a leaf aquiet doe nuzzling in the dark I wanted to be other than I, anything Continue reading
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The Seventh Path
THE SEVENTH PATH I walk in ways of wisdom, My step is quiet and shy; I walk in the ways of wisdom, I say not a word to you or I. I walk along paths of elms and pine, I walk along trails that wind To a never-ending side I can’t surmise. I walk in Continue reading
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Barth
BARTH-town in Germany where my father was a prisoner of war in WWII I like to think my heart is as hard as stone, cool and glinting; tested by the upheaval of life and lives to know better than to cry for personal and planetary histories that have long gone by. And yet today I Continue reading
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SHINING LIFE
It is only when we give up the strife; moving forward to create a resplendent shining life, that we access the simplest of secrets which is that all the universe and the universes yet to be born dwell within each of our tiny cells, just as they do in Sirius, Pluto and Orion. So rejoice Continue reading
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World Family
What kind of world do you want to re-create? If you make your family bigger indeed, you will find that your arms encompass all the seas; your hair flows like the rivers, your arms become a tendrils of vines, your feet root into obsidian, and you are sprinkled with star dust, moonlight and sunbeams in Continue reading
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