| “One” © Copyright December 5, 2004 By Dana Shino, The Purple Phoenix, LLC www.thepurplephoenix.com This piece came through with such ease as one piece of information in about ten minutes. All I did was record what I heard verbatim, remove a few words here and there, and the poem rose, gleaming, in its entirety. It was as if I did nothing, and suddenly it was there. A rare, true gem and gift. The great beasts of the oceanic deep, and the great beasts of the high land, hold up their torch in the sanctity of one hand— While the other bequests the love of the Earth who so kindly carries our billions on berth. And what if she shook, this great Earthly mother, and shook us all off like a dog offing water? Yet she, our Mother, carries us tirelessly round, season after season our feet on her ground. So, say hey, the Winter and Spring, Summer, Fall, the ripeness of all turning the turning of all— Is the great Mother planet of all changes, all kinds, who burst forth with volcanoes and swept up her tides. She pulls herself willingly the great moon in tow round the sun of all suns round the galaxy row. See you harvest moons rise opposite setting suns? See you capped mountain peaks all hovering as one? For in Winter snow play and lazy ass Summers Fall’s crisp leaf turnings and Spring’s nettled blooms, They are all as the one of the time of the sun and settling in our midst is the oneness of one. Connected we are through our blood and our bone. Connected we are through the seasons of one. Ancient are ways tied up in the new— held precious in hand these seeds of the few Planted in our hearts and held as one under the sun of all suns as the maker of one. For differences rest in the seat of the nest where bombs and shed blood are angriest. For never is settle in now and here til differences rest and ancient mysteries clear— When the old story is sung to be understood between ancient history of the bones and the blood. And so the beasts wail on land and in sea, listen, oh listen, as once did we to Mother Earth orbit hailing her Sister suns and stars, and salutations Brother planets, Pluto, Saturn and Mars. So as we stand separate as separate we shall. So as we stand separate so shall we as one. |
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