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Birthing

How did humanity
arrive at this place?
Almost overnight,
viral war torn,
scarred, skeptical,
frazzled, frightened,
lonely isolation,
madly missing
the joy of life.

Humanity’s vitality
slowly but surely
leaking away,
drained by a
lurking thieving,
deceitful beast,
gluttonous gorger
swallowing whole
all who yield.

But the wheel of
fortune ever turns,
the black jar of
Pandora’s woes
morphs to womb
of fathomless
mother goddess
of a Golden Age,
a new humanity.

It’s time to birth
transformation
from destruction,
swimming upwards
to shimmering light,
gulping great drafts
of rarefied air,
reclaiming life and
eager to live it.

I wrote this poem in the middle of the pandemic, August 2021. One might say we have moved beyond this, so why post it? Because this event was part our spiritual awakening, and we are still sorting out all of the implications and effects it had on the collective we call humanity.

Birthing is an excerpt from Humanity’s Lament: Poetry for Our Times. It’s free.

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Life is a Gift

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It’s a blue-sky day,
one of those
beauteous blue-full,
joyously jocular,
splendidly splashy,
exceptional days –
I long to shout
LIFE IS A GIFT
in unmistakable
letters across the
blue shiny yonder,
to imprint them
indelibly on your
mind, so you’ll –

Remember when
the dark clouds roll
in, on a day when
life feels pissy and
oh so problematic,
to take a deep breath,
and close your eyes,
and gently pull the
gray gloom aside,
to see those big
oh so true words
I etched on blue
for you, so that
you’d never forget –

Life is a gift.

From Soul Journey: The Poetry of Life. Download it free.

Smile

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Smiles have
this way, they
captivate and
illuminate,
they raise up
our energy
and light up
the world,
they ripple
outward and
boomerang
back to us,
they’re a gift
we give to others
and to ourselves,
so just –

Smile.

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Sun-kissed

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Lustrous diamond,
blazing star constant and true,
Sol, we adore you.

Turtles are renowned sun worshipers, so today I’m dedicating my sun haiku to them. Unlike humans, however, sunbathing is not just a fun pastime in order to enhance one’s aesthetic attractiveness. No, their health and well-being depends upon it. Apparently turtles bask to regulate body temperature, and also to produce the vitamin D3 they need to absorb calcium and avoid metabolic bone disease.

Turtles are very sociable creatures. They will happily share a log, and if need be, they politely as possible walk on top of their companion(s) to get to the other end of it. I suppose it’s a sort of sunbathing etiquette agreed upon by turtles. Imagine if we humans did that to each other at the beach!

But what I really want to know is, while they’re soaking up the rays, what do turtles talk about? (“Hey Bill, check out the cute babe on the next log…”)