“And Bow Often”*
Moonrise over Pond
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As the leaves fall,
Curtains are
Drawn open
Onto
The landscape.
More is revealed!
Leaves carpet
The earth
With musty,
Delicious-for-dogs
Delights,
Crunching
Beneath
Boots.
Our world,
This glorious planet,
Stunningly alive
Now adorned
With vistas galore.
The giant moon
Dangles,
Rising over the pond.
The waves
Dance
In the pond.
The geese overhead
Nosily,
Assuredly
Head home.
And bow often,
Says Mary Oliver.
And bow
Often.
~~~
Meanwhile
The earth
Is
On fire.
Meanwhile
We push each other
Away
With violence
And
Unimaginable
Fury.
Meanwhile
Justice,
Equality,
Freedoms
Dangle
Incomprehensibly
Like
The
Moon.
Meanwhile
The earth
Is
On fire.
~~~
How do we live in both realities?
How do we
Ride the waves
Of
The
Cognitive
Dissonance—
Natural beauty
And
Injustice?
Stunning moonrise
And
Starving children?
Perhaps we
Just practice.
Perhaps
We
Bow
Often,
Being with
Whatever it is.
To all of it.
To all we are given.
Let us
Practice
Being
With.
~~~
To acknowledge
Both realities
Of our world,
Here are two
Different
Pieces
Of
Inspiration,
Offering
Acknowledgement,
Appreciation,
Blessings
To all we are given.
~~~
First,
OH! Our Mary Oliver, When I am Among the Trees:
~~~
And secondly, from Playing for Change.
From our place of privilege and comfort, let us remember.
“On the International Day of the Disappeared,
This is our tribute to the thousands of people who disappear
Every year due to armed conflict, violence, natural disasters
Or on the migration route.”
And I Still Haven’t Found…
~~~
Dear Friends,
One step,
One breath,
One thing
At a time.
Through
Simplicity of purpose,
Through
The
Lens
Of
Radical kindness
May we find
Our
Way
Forward.
Stay blessed,
Aruni
*by Mary Oliver