You Need to Stop Everything and Go Read This. No, Really.

What Coyopa Said.

Seriously. Now.

And, in the end:

Look at that world beyond your door. Your life is on fire. Run. Dive in, though it surely means death. Taste the streams, the heather and the gorse and the broom. Hold the river stones. Sleep with the waterfall as your pillow. Braid yourself to the horse’s mane. Sing the great lament of your own lost life. In time, scar yourself with fire and stone. Immerse yourself in such immovable darkness that the lightning cracks you in two. You were never more lost than you are now, if you cannot reach out, touch the wild earth and weep.

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I Am The Rain that Falls

I am the rain that falls and
the grass that grows and
the ferns that drip and
the wisteria that droops and
the dirt that absorbs the rain.

I am the scent of wet mulch and
damp Earth and
overgrown mint and
young basil and something else,
unknowable, under the mulch.

I am the cardinal that demands and
the blue jay that steals and
the crows that warn and
the cat against whom the crows warn after the cardinal demands.

I am my garden in the rain and
my garden in the rain is me.
Everything is everything and — this –
I know more deeply than I know my own name
or the name of my garden in the rain.

Others have said the same thing, with more poetry:

I am the wind that breathes upon the sea
I am the wave of the ocean
I am the murmur of the billows
I am the ox of the seven combats
I am the vulture upon the rocks
I am a beam of the sun
I am the fairest of plants
I am a wild boar in valour
I am a salmon in the water
I am a lake in the plain
I am a word of science
I am the point of the lance of battle
I am the God who created in the head the fire
Who is it who throws light into the meeting on the mountain?
Who announces the ages of the moon?
Who teaches the place where couches the sun? (If not I?)

~Ambergin

Thursday Night Poetry Blogging

The Inner History of a Day
~ John O’Donohue

No one knew the name of this day;
Born quietly from deepest night,
It hid its face in light,
Demanded nothing for itself,
Opened out to offer each of us
A field of brightness that traveled ahead,
Providing in time, ground to hold our footsteps
And the light of thought to show the way.

The mind of the day draws no attention;
It dwells within the silence with elegance
To create a space for all our words,
Drawing us to listen inward and outward.

We seldom notice how each day is a holy place
Where the eucharist of the ordinary happens,
Transforming our broken fragments
Into an eternal continuity that keeps us.

Somewhere in us a dignity presides
That is more gracious than the smallness
That fuels us with fear and force,
A dignity that trusts the form a day takes.

So at the end of this day, we give thanks
For being betrothed to the unknown
And for the secret work
Through which the mind of the day
And wisdom of the soul become one.

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Your Shadow Is the Looming Figure

Outremer from Fanny Howe on Vimeo.