Tumbling

 

-------Tumbling-------

 

Like the Earth 

who has moved 

through the longest of nights

 

And the world

in this 

dark hour

 

I tumble,

 

Unknowing

but not alone,

toward some unbuyable longing

 

To dance 

among 

the stars.

 

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As If

 

-------As If-------

 

There is smoke in the air,

an angst throughout the body

where the forest is being cut.

 

They speak of progress

as if the soya beans and timber could 

somehow 

take the place of home.

 

As if 

the intricately 

intertwined 

together 

body

 

Beautiful 

one, 

Earth 

and Human,

was disposable.

 

It is in the lonely, 

unreckoned-with 

corners of the mind

that greed has room to grow

 

As if 

to fill a void

of its own desperate making.

 

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Worlds Beyond

-------Worlds Beyond-------

 

We are born 

from dreams

 

Of the make believe

 

A stone shaping 

the carver's hands.

 

Come now 

 

To where the child 

inside you plays

 

Imagining worlds beyond worlds

 

Like a seed stirring 

through Winter

 

Like a flower emerging in the Spring.

 

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One Upon the River

 

-------One Upon the River-------

 

Fog meets

with woodsmoke

 

Like breath 

upon 

the river

 

Meandering 

as they re-member

 

The Earth

and we

as one.

 

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Not Forgotten

 

-------Not Forgotten-------

 

A full moon 

silhouettes 

the mountains

 

And daylight

remembers

their green.

 

It is easy to feel forgotten

by a world 

who cares not to see

 

That in every seed

there is 

a forest

 

And in all 

of us

the Sea.

 

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