-------Care Work-------
In
the garden
I
find
good
company
And
planting seeds
a
chance, myself, to grow.
There
are fewer answers
than
there are questions
that
I hold
And
so
I
listen
And
take care
with
the space
between
For
attention makes room
in
all kinds of ways
Encouraging
the
light
within.
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-------What Moves Within-------
Beyond
the edges
of
what is known
There
is a world
to
let
become
A
forest
yet
untouched by war
Awaiting
our
presence
to
grow.
Change
need not come
by
force nor fear
But
forgiveness
to
what moves
within
Like
an acorn
forgives
itself to Winter
And
with
Spring
to
transformation.
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-------Let Back In-------
To the space of mind
reclaimed
from anger
From fear
and isolation
I let the joy back in
Unapologetically,
like wind encouraging
clouds along
Re-membering
the stars beyond.
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-------A New Day-------
The power of men
is clung
to
By hands
that have no other hand
to hold.
It is a fragile existence,
top-heavy
and about to fall.
For there is
a new day
coming
A world unbound from gender,
from race,
from possession.
And as a green wave,
like diamonds,
curls upon the rocks
A ripple of our dream
returns out
to the Sea.
-------
-------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-------
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.
-------
-------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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