Soften the Ground

 

-------Soften the Ground-------

 

The rains 

have come

in kind return

 

And soften 

the ground 

for spring,

 

For the seeds 

we have 

been saving

 

For this

moment

in time.

 

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Trespass

 

-------Trespass-------

 

Given the times

I am called to ask,

 

Who profits 

from the land enclosed?

 

Property,

its borders and law,

 

Has kept the human 

mind confined

 

Behind 

a wall of trespass.

 

Dis-remembered 

is the memory

 

That once we gathered

without threat

 

Without fear

 

Of our 

arrest.

 

Now POSTED signs

protect the mines

 

And the poisoners 

of water,

 

While the masses 

long to be free again,

 

To live, to love, 

to prosper.

 

So called to ask

in these times am I,

 

What happens 

when all is sold?

 

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Together

 

-------Together-------

 

Hope is a straight line

whereas solidarity

meanders

 

Steadfast and fluid

like a river 

toward the sea.

 

To be human 

is to be a child

of this earth

 

No more

or less

than any other

 

But sure as spring

the part 

each sing

 

Comes whole

when sung 

together.

 

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Imbolc

 

-------Imbolc-------

 

The moon returned

for a moment 

tonight

 

I could see

from around my shadow

 

The clouds disperse

and the light

come through

 

Like spring 

beneath the snow.

 

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Edge of the Quiet

 

-------Edge of the Quiet-------

 

It is the shy 

edge

of the quiet season

 

Where the possibility

of song is held

 

Still

yet

within its shell.

 

I can hear it there

beneath the snow,

 

In the tree buds

not yet

budding

 

The river that runs

through all of us

 

Toward 

the ocean

and the coming spring.

 

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Maybe

 

-------Maybe-------

 

Enough is enough

of the nonchalant

abuse

of land and water

 

As if

the sacredness of life

pertained 

to only human.

 

How was it that we 

have come to this

unwell way 

of thinking

 

That has put up walls

and drives its flag

into 

the heart of nature?

 

Our heart.

The heart that bleeds

and beats 

within each other.

 

We were not made 

to pledge ourselves 

to a single 

god or nation

 

But maybe

rather

to love this world

and the breadth of all creation.

 

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Darkness Beyond

 

-------Darkness Beyond-------

 

Above this city's light

in the comfort 

of darkness beyond

 

What I see

and what 

I have been taught

 

Is a stars light

I know 

to follow

 

Through unknown 

streets

toward home.

 

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