Turn You Gold

-------Turn You Gold-------

Sunrise 

rolls 

the shadows

Down hillsides

into

Autumn.

Every color 

you could 

imagine,

Held 

within the 

darkness.

Be present 

into grief

and this dawn

Will turn 

you

gold.

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Dear Autumn

-------Dear Autumn-------

Oh, dear Autumn,

bless the changes

that you bring.

In 

your 

presence

Our edges disappear

and hearts beat 

in rhythm,

Inviting 

near

the Colds return

And color

into the 

leaves.

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Red into Gold

-------Red into Gold-------

It is in the quiet,

on the soft and shifting winds,

I hear the rhythm

most clearly.

Eyes open

or closed.

Mind still.

Heart wandering.

My fingers rise

to touch the strings,

and bird wings

lift

Through young Autumn,

carrying the dawn

from red

into gold.

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First Darkness

-------First Darkness-------

To become the light

held inside,

first darkness

I must approach.

Avoiding grief

allows

the pain

to deepen,

But tending the soil 

around its roots

encourages

the flower open.

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Undivided

-------Undivided-------

Can there be freedom 

without servitude?

Summer 

without a Fall?

Some words hold meaning 

by contrast 

to an Other.

And some,

in their Mother Tongue,

meander

Like rivers

to the 

sea.

I wish to someday live

in a world 

without prisons,

In a circle

with all 

creation,

Undivided 

and 

allowing

The rain to fall,

as it does,

upon 

our naked skin.

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New Dawn

-------New Dawn-------

Every child

hears the music

and 

knows the dance.

Let that brave spirit

rise up like sunshine 

in your chest

And move this world

from the muck 

and murder 

of war

Into a new dawn,

where Mother Earth 

performs her love song

Through 

each 

and all 

of us.

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The Undercommons

-------The Undercommons-------

When by this world

we feel

forgot,

Mother Nature

they

have not.

For through the cracks

of each

our 

sorrow

Rise up 

plantain,

red clover

and yarrow.

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