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Hurt
I wanted to share this post from SEW1960 with you. She captures so well the complexity surrounding ” hurt”.
I hurt
like baby hurt
as in
I need mother’s milk,
Daddy’s shoulder.
The rest of the world
looks at me,
aghast.
Can someone shut up that baby
or toddler?
I am the little girl
weeping in the closet
because I couldn’t tie my shoes
or lock the door.
I hold it all in
like everyone told me to do.
There are more important things
to weep about.
Have you not learned your lesson,
baby girl?
Learn what hurt means.
That inner struggle
My heart wants roots
My mind wants wings.
I cannot bear
Their bickerings.
Yip Harburg
Text and image source: Jana Eid https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10163830010020093&id=772270092
Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses…
Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke 💚
Text and image source: Earthschool Harmony http://www.earthschoolharmony.com
Embracing Blues
This morning I let
melancholy have its say
and when, at day’s end,
the blues filled pond and sky,
blues’ beauty also filled me.
                            JDG
#AustraliaBushFires . . . Our children will bear witness
This elegant poem is from Earthschool Harmony via Purpleraysblog. May we all listen and act.
Be a witness:
We see you as your rain forest burns
ancient green lungs erupting into flame
we hear your anguished cries
the same ones mass media ignore
we will give a voice to the voiceless
We will be a witness
Greed and eco terrorism rule
trade deals and wealthy landowners
deal in secret handshakes and dirty money
genocide ecocide sabotage corruption and lies
human impact fuels the flames
We will be a witness
This holy green cathedral burns
sacred land and sentient beings fall
billions promised for bricks and mortar
the hypocrisy of government and religion
trying to blind us to the truth
We will be a witness
We each need to look within
reassess our individual greed
reassess our individual need
make change and take account
all living beings equal
We will be a witness
No fear only love
no violence only action
no longer blind we see
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Small Mystery
Tiny white flower,
how did you come to be here,
stemless, this cold day?
                        JDG
A Place To Be
Newly fallen golden leaves join
leaves of years past, now stiff and brown.Â
There was a time when they were fresh and green,
their place made possible
by other golden leaves that, in time,
released their hold and found a new place
in the ever-changing order of things.
                                             JDG
Letting It Be — A Hundred Falling Veils
There is a carpenter in me with an impressive tool belt. She thinks she can fix everything. Every time there’s a leak in the ducts, she blames that darn condensation, and whips out her metallic tape. And when there’s a heart break, she mumbles something about not meeting code, then takes…
