Tag: poem

Always slow breath of the Pacific calming,

Body blooms in warm moist air,

Scent of Ylang Ylang perfuming the night.

I am cradled by rocking warm waves

Shared with whales, dolphins, turtles, birds.

Over boulders a stream plunges,

I float in a rain forest cold hole,

Ancient Ajo trees arc above

Cicadas shriek, rattling eardrums

Mute as head dips below surface.

Alone where once dinosaurs roamed

Crunching giant fern, philodendrons

Still here luxuriant.

I have said nothing of listening to a small child

Lead our adult group in call and response –

Or of dancing with you

Joyful, tears overflowing.

Or Luna’s songs of surrender to Divine Mother

Or lying under the vortex dome before dawn

Weeping and dissolving.

Or that Josh promised to be at my deathbed.

We are always together saluting the rising sun.