Gratitude to the Poets and the Poetry Posters
Thank you. I am rich with poetry and dizzy with poetry and drunk with poetry. And I am so grateful for poetry and for this mighty web of poetic connection that we spun together. Thank you! Prayer for the Great Family Gratitude to Mother Earth, sailing through night and day— and to her soil: rich, rare and sweet in our minds so be it . Gratitude to Plants, the sun-facing, light-changing leaf and fine root-hairs; standing still through wind and rain; their dance is in the flowering spiral grain in our minds so be it . Gratitude to Air, bearing the soaring Swift and silent Owl at dawn. Breath of our song clear spirit breeze in our minds so be it . Gratitude to Wild Beings, our brothers, teaching secrets, freedoms, and ways; who share with us their milk; self-complete, brave and aware in our minds so be it . Gratitude to Water:...