NAMING THE EARTH(a poem of light for national poetry day) And the world will be born againin circles of steaming breathand beams of lightas each one of us directsour inner eyeupon its name. Hear the cry of wings, the sigh of leaves and grass, smell the new sweet mist risingas the pathway is cleared at last. Stones stand ready -they have knownsince ages and ages agothat they were not alone. Water carries the planet's energyinto skies and down to earth and bones. The cold parts steadily as we come together, bodies and hearts warm, hands tingling. We are silentbut our eyes are singing. We look, we feel, we know, we trust each other's souls, we have no need to speak. Not now, but later, when the time is right, the name will ringwithin the iron coreof each other's listening -and the very earth's being. Every creature, every plant, will hear it calling, tolling like a bell -a sound we've always feltbut never dared to hopeto hear reverberating -true at last, at every levelof existence. The poets come togetherto open the intimate centre. Believein life and air -breathe the light itself, for these are the energiesand rhythms that we needto see, to touch, to reach, to identify, to say, the NAME.Colours on your skinfuse and dissolve -leave the river cleanfor pure space and timeto enter and flow in. We all become one fluid streamof stillness and motion, of flaring thoughtpulses discoveringweird pools and twists withinwhere darkness hidesfrom the flames in our eyesbut will not snare us. We probe deeper still, journeying towards a unitywhich will be more rawand yet also more formedthan anything writtenor spoken before. Our fragile bodiesfall away -and the trees, and the roots of trees, guide us -lead us awayfrom the faces we rememberseeing each day in the mirror -into an oceanof dreamsseething with warmth, love, where the beginningis real, ripe, evolving. And the world is born againin circles of steaming breathand beams of light. An ache - a signal -a trembling moment -and the time is rightto say the name. We sing as one wholevoice of the universal -all the words, the namesof every tiny thirsting thing, and they ring out togetheras one sound, one energy, one sense, one vibration, one breath. And the world listens, beats, shines, glows -IS -Exists! . Jay Woodman
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