Forest Green

  

-------Forest Green-------

 

Cedar trees 

straight 

and tall

 

Sway in

and slow the wind

 

Through forests

as green as ferns 

unfurling

 

As moss

and as salal

 

For here 

the songs

are sung in color

 

With words 

that sound like spring

 

That call

to me

in a deepest way

 

To forgive, to bend,

to sway.

 

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Flowers

  

-------Flowers-------

 

Birdsong

is the quiet forest

 

Vibrating

still

like starlight

 

On the equinox

- middle spring -

 

When silence

begins 

to flower.

 

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Toward the Ocean

 

-------Toward the Ocean-------

Come towards 

it now

This age 

old prayer 

of longing

That echoes 

with our souls unbound

From half-life 

kind 

of living

We are the earth

this prayer, this river

Re-membering 

our way

as one

Back 

into the sea.

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Come Darkness

 

-------Come Darkness-------

Dusk 

says 

with golden light

goodnight 

on the tops 

of the trees

While up their trunks 

the shadow grows

of our mother 

earth 

revolving 

spinning 

Until 

the tips 

are reached

and with a kiss 

comes 

darkness

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Gathering Gratitude

  

-------Gathering Gratitude-------

 

Gathering sap

 

Is way

to pray

 

And manifest a giving

 

Of thanks

for all 

 

The earth provides

 

For today,

this day,

 

For living.

 

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Roots

  

-------Roots-------

 

Reparation 

is re-membering

 

The root 

of being 

human

 

- Hum-ility

hum-us -

 

One

together

earth.

 

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Imbolc haiku

  

-------Imbolc haiku-------

 

A breeze

on Imbolc

 

Sunshine 

dancing 

through beech leaves

 

Turning 

winter spring

 

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