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Sacred Earth And Sky

The Invitation

January 14, 2023 By Nancy L Leave a Comment

Oh do you have time
to linger
for just a little while
out of your busy

and very important day
for the goldfinches
that have gathered
in a field of thistles

for a musical battle,
to see who can sing
the highest note,
or the lowest,

or the most expressive of mirth,
or the most tender?
Their strong, blunt beaks
drink the air

as they strive
melodiously
not for your sake
and not for mine

and not for the sake of winning
but for sheer delight and gratitude –
believe us, they say,
it is a serious thing

just to be alive
on this fresh morning
in the broken world.
I beg of you,

do not walk by
without pausing
to attend to this
rather ridiculous performance.

It could mean something.
It could mean everything.
It could be what Rilke meant, when he wrote:
You must change your life.

~Mary Oliver

🕊️

Image: European goldfinches
by Anton Mir-Mar

Filed Under: Inspire Nature Love, Open to Earth Wisdom and Guidance Tagged With: beauty, joy, listen, love, Mary Oliver, nature, poem

Last Night As I Was Sleeping

April 9, 2021 By Nancy L Leave a Comment

Photo by Gavin Mackintosh South Molton, United Kingdom

Last night as I was sleeping,
I dreamt—marvelous error!—
that a spring was breaking
out in my heart.
I said: Along which secret aqueduct,
Oh water, are you coming to me,
water of a new life
that I have never drunk?

Last night as I was sleeping,
I dreamt—marvelous error!—
that I had a beehive
here inside my heart.
And the golden bees
were making white combs
and sweet honey
from my old failures.

Last night as I was sleeping,
I dreamt—marvelous error!—
that a fiery sun was giving
light inside my heart.
It was fiery because I felt
warmth as from a hearth,
and sun because it gave light
and brought tears to my eyes.

Last night as I slept,
I dreamt—marvelous error!—
that it was God I had
here inside my heart.

-Antonio Machado
Translated by Robert Bly

Filed Under: Dream a New Earth, Open to Earth Wisdom and Guidance Tagged With: Antonio Machado, bee, dream, heart, love, nature, poem, spring, sun, wisdom

Suggestion For A Day

November 5, 2020 By Nancy L Leave a Comment

And if today we speak at all,
let us speak in golden leaf.
Let’s converse in low clear stream,
whisper in rose-hip pink.
And if we speak at all today,
let’s slip mulch between each word,
aware that what we say will grow—
how powerful the words we sow.
And if we speak at all,
let’s speak in mountain, speak in field,
speak only words that lift and heal,
speak only words that lift and heal.
And if we speak,
let’s listen for the quiet in between—
plant tulips bulbs in the silences.
And crocuses. And grace.
And any words with thorns in them,
let’s set them down. Let’s lose them.
And if our words don’t open like sky,
let’s let the sky say everything.

~Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

Image: Aspens at Sunset
by Nancy Lankston

Filed Under: Inspire Nature Love, Open to Earth Wisdom and Guidance Tagged With: beauty, love, nature, poem, Trommer, wisdom

The Song of Amergin

October 22, 2020 By Nancy L Leave a Comment

I am Wind on Sea,
I am Ocean-wave,
I am Roar of Sea,
I am Stag of Seven Tines,
I am a Hawk on a Cliff,
I am shining tear of the Sun,
I am Fairest among Herbs,
I am Boar for Boldness,
I am Salmon in Pool,
I am a Lake on a Plain,
I am a Hill of Poetry,
I am a Word of Skill,
I am the Point of a Weapon
(that pours forth combat),
I am God who fashions Fire for a Head.
Who knows the secrets of the
Unhewn Dolmen?
Who (but I) announces the Ages of the Moon?
Who (but I) know the place where falleth
the Sunset?
Who calls the Cattle from the House of Tethra?
On whom do the cattle of Tethra smile?
Who is the troop, the god who fashions edges
in a fortress of gangrene?
(I am) a Song on a Spear,
an Enchantments of Wind.

🌎❤️

We are the Earth.
The Earth are We.


Original;
Am gaeth i m-muir,
Am tond trethan,
Am fuaim mara,
Am dam secht ndirend,
Am séig i n-aill,
Am dér gréne,
Am cain lubai,
Am torc ar gail,
Am he i l-lind,
Am loch i m-maig,
Am brí a ndai,
Am bri danae,
Am bri i fodb fras feochtu,Am dé delbas do chind codnu,
Coiche nod gleith clochur slébe?Cia on co tagair aesa éscai?
Cia du i l-laig fuiniud gréne?
Cia beir buar o thig tethrach?
Cia buar tethrach tibi?
Cia dám, cia dé delbas faebru a ndind ailsiu?
Cáinte im gai, cainte gaithe.

Image: Scottish Highlands
by Nancy Lankston

Filed Under: Inspire Nature Love, Open to Earth Wisdom and Guidance, Sacred Earth Tagged With: joy, listen, love, mama earth, poem, sacred

One With All

September 29, 2020 By Nancy L Leave a Comment

Aspen Seedlings

‘Yea, I am one with all I see, 
With wind and wave, with pine and palm; 
Their very elements in me 
Are fused to make me what I am. 
Through me their common life-stream flows, 
And when I yield this human breath, 
In leaf and blossom, bud and rose, 
Live on I will….’

~Robert Service

Filed Under: Inspire Nature Love, Sacred Earth Tagged With: love, nature, poem, Robert Service, sacred

I Am

January 8, 2020 By Nancy L Leave a Comment

I am the dust in the sunlight, I am the ball of the sun . . . 
I am the mist of morning, the breath of evening . . . . 
I am the spark in the stone, the gleam of gold in the metal . . . . 
The rose and the nightingale drunk with its fragrance. 

I am the chain of being, the circle of the spheres, 
The scale of creation, the rise and the fall. 
I am what is and is not . . . 
I am the soul in all.

~ Rumi

Filed Under: Inspire Nature Love, Open to Earth Wisdom and Guidance, Sacred Earth Tagged With: nature, poem, Rumi, sacred, soul

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