flat gray sky
the chickadee sings
no less brightly
Posts Tagged ‘song’
Example Haiku
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged chickadee, haiku, inspiration, song on January 25, 2013 | 3 Comments »
Following Her Lead
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged good bye, leader, poem, poetry, song, Ulli Sir Jesse on October 8, 2012 | 4 Comments »
for Ulli Sir Jesse
Surrounded with falling,
you choose joy.
Given a minor tune,
you change a note
and the melody, now major,
finds new gaps
in the day’s dark staves.
Given a lump, you dissolve it
with tears. In the face of loss,
you smile and offer your hand.
In the hail, you sing. In the dark,
you sing. And all along the trail,
you sing and invite the world
to sing with you. I will sing
with you. Though I weep,
I will sing with you. Though
you move father away, I sing
with you, I sing with you
wherever you go, I sing
because that is what we do,
we who know harmony
as one of the ladders
to god, we who feel how
the song sings us, and because
you have taught us
so beautifully, we sing,
though it sounds perhaps
more like gurgling tonight,
more like keening, or wailing,
we sing, gonna rise up, we sing.
Tanka
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged flow, obstacle, river, song, tanka on August 6, 2012 | 4 Comments »
the river song
fills the evening—an homage
not to flow
but to what
stands in its way
The Scientist Says Synergy, the Woman Says Miracle
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 84, fire, song, synergy on October 10, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Beside the fire
a man begins
a rhythmic
drone
and another
man is roused
to song
and another
and another
+
I can’t say
where it comes from
the urge in me
to sing
along
but
soon
I too
become
night
music—
not a
woman
+
but the shape
of song
that belongs
more to all
than any
one can
make
like how
seven sisters
constellate
*these 84s, 84-character poems, are part of a new series on synergy, the sixth power of the universe as outlined by Brian Swimme. It refers to a synergistic relationship that gives birth to causal factors in the universe that would not otherwise exist. It shows the ontological power of relationship.
