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Poems - As Above, So Below
| | As Above, So Belowby MichaelFirewalker
over Mother Earth we fly
side by side
left to right
above the ignorance busily shredding
her daily diminishing Life
but not above her pain
this we must know again and again
this we must live and breathe
it is her pain she has bequeathed
it births compassion's marrow
inside our spirit-bones
from Mother’s mind we learn to find
her wounded ones
and guide them home
for her we fly by crumbling stones
of aged mountains
those scattered, creaking, vaulted domes
erected hard and high
to crush through eons vast
and climb past clouded peaks
where fountains gush and plunge
catapulting down
with all her pregnant memories
whose torrents fall in worship
of the fecund plurality
that roams beneath her teeming seas
long ago they all ran free
replenishing themselves
by her own fertility
but today her ancient histories
are barely heard
they drip now through the centuries
as her waters dry incrementally
while the old ways burn
because the fires of chaos yearn
to rule her sacred land
her memories have nearly died
yet how grand her smallest sigh...
her whispers span millennia!
and where they lie
we too have lain
like ashes spread
inside her pain
there
our fallen Love
burns and cries
now it must begin to rise
soon the angel draws that line…
it is time
her children learned to fly
we must remember who we are
sons and daughters born of Earth
warriors high in blessed sky
rebirthed
tip to tip
strong spirit-wings
must spread across her paling turf
reach to kiss Mother Earth
time has come to let them soar
remember how she poured
her lush volcanic core into each of us
from her own depleting stores she bled
until our flesh was fed and fully formed around
the spirits first sent down inside her living waters
we who would become
the embodiment of her Love for Life
must lift her high on phoenix wings
and help our Mother fly
through freshly baptized skies
as she unfolds her azure soul
upon her emerald skin
til darkened land can shine with Life again
and crooked minds think straight
from out the blackened maws of hate
when that first new hope is torn
in kindness dancing graciously
and innocence paints ecstasy
she will lift her ground-bound wings
and let all her grass green feathers sing
her through her healing flight
as each of us becomes aware again
of who we've really always been
the phoenix born within the Dove
high above the Sefirot
where even now we are become
the simultaneity
that fills this entire universe
abiding at once as One
inside the Holiest of All
we are Life poured forth fully
formed from the purest Light
of we who are
Love
FOOTNOTE: The title is a phrase quoted from Hermes,
a philosopher of ancient Greece.
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i've always said tha
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by GrannyDeepSea on Sunday, March 02, 2008 (02:03:21) |
i've always said that if She's having a bad day, we all are.....Her days just last so long!!!!...pm
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i've always said tha
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by MichaelFirewalker on Sunday, March 02, 2008 (14:01:14) |
ahhh......the frustrating rubberacity of time...
michael
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hi M , while the poe
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by anna9 on Tuesday, March 04, 2008 (00:31:08) |
hi M , while the poem is beautiful , i need to ask why you repeat the phoenix in your work ......
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hi M , while the poe
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by MichaelFirewalker on Wednesday, March 12, 2008 (15:23:45) |
hi, anna9----sorry I missed this from you until now----will you help me understand a bit better just what it is that you are asking?----do you mean why did I use phoenix twice in this poem, or why have I also used it in other poems?
thanks,
michael
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these words are visu
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by xXxSYNxXx on Wednesday, March 12, 2008 (15:12:47) |
these words are visually stunning!
i can see in my mind the images that flow with these words, and they're beautiful and sad at the same time. This is excellent!
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these words are visu
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by MichaelFirewalker on Wednesday, March 12, 2008 (15:30:16) |
what you express here, xXxSYNxXx, in response to this poem, is what I feel also, both happy and sad----happy that Mother is healing, and sad that her pain has lasted millions of millenniae----who can even begin to comprehend such a thing, a planet who is sentient, and who has a consciousness thousands of times greater than ours?----and yet, when I energetically enter her core , and commune with her, it is her pain that is primary, her pain that remains with me, along with her overwhelming love, which I am very aware is far beyond my ability to comprehend...
thank you,
michael
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