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“You can do it like it’s a great weight on you or you can do it like it’s part of the dance.”
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Poem 1087 - Prayer to Earth to Heaven
From the small plants that cling to a rock
and make a microcosm of the rainforest,
to the largest trees,
from the dullest bird
to the most colorful tropical parakeets,
from all the little creatures,
to me,
life
resplendent
see;
in my mind's eye, I perceive.
A long-forgotten word finds again an old friend.
A call out to a bird across the dale and den.
A crystal of ice on a snow-capped peak.
The deep blue ocean finds what it keeps.
And all the little creatures, see,
from me,
to the dullest bird,
and the brightest rainforest parakeet!
I see
life resplendent, me
in the mind's eye, I perceive.
Never forgotten what was heard,
never begotten to the earth.
Calculated paradoxes
turning in the circles of the sky.
More mysteries than you or I.
In our mind's eyes:
find and seek, hide and keep.
In the earth, forgotten earth, always earth:
human beings.
Blessed be the little creatures in the sea.
Blessed be love and you and me.
May we forget all that was known.
May we remember all we know
and find the peace
that in souls' breath sleep
forgotten dreams
come out to speak.
And on this earth, to weep and seek,
we keep together till we fleet, to the heavens, darting deep
into the mysteries of the bleak,
And find what on earth we had seeked.
This I pray your soul to keep.
A promise to the future:
LEAP!