Even Paradise Has Snakes Where you step matters For eternity, manifesting is a walkabout Whatever comes, ours It could be rough, steep stark requiring crampons Every once in a while a fern canyon Paradise
“Every step matters for eternity”. Oh yes it does! Perhaps if I have a fellow traveler on walkabout, we can both be looking, for snakes, for paradise. Thank you, dear Amrita.
“Even Paradise Has Snakes “ - indeed, but most are happy to avoid you if you are careful where you step as you walk. We are surrounded by them here feeding on the frogs in the wetlands.
no worries about formatting...all three poets' words sing, bell-like, into my heart. thank you all, those still living and those whose walkabout has finished.
“Every step matters for eternity”. Oh yes it does! Perhaps if I have a fellow traveler on walkabout, we can both be looking, for snakes, for paradise. Thank you, dear Amrita.
I feel like I am on a walkabout with my far-flung friends, casting poems, like lights, from hand to hand. It keeps me buoyed up.
Oh my, there's a poem in there. Tomorrow.
Did you see the poem from Moudi Sbeity this morning? I'll email it to you. Oh! I'm not finding your email.
Here's his poem that lifted me today. I'm lofting it over to you--watch it light the sky as it flies your way.
with love,
Amrita
Behave Beautifully
“It is about…behaving as beautifully
as one can under completely impossible
circumstances” - Toni Morrison
It seems too simple, doesn’t it?
One day we are born, and on that
day we are promised our death, and
in between we have this opportunity
to be beautiful, to behave beautifully,
to learn a thing or two about what it
means to be alive here, together on
this Earth. No one said it would be
easy— the heartbreak, the loss, this
impossible pain. What else shall we
do? We are here after all, are we not?
Why all the fussing over who gets
what and where and how much of it?
Here is the daisy, smiling up as you
go by. Here is the cloud, waving on.
Here is the moon, singing sweetly.
Here you are. Here I am. Here we
stand in this here happening world,
and the bridge, the long beautiful
bridge.
- Moudi Sbeity
(It wrecked the formatting--the epigraph from Toni Morrison should have been separate from the poem)
Another poem with words that could change lives...Thank you for sharing this!
I agree. I think his poem is just wonderful. Moudi's going to be in the anthology as well. Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer introduced me to him.
“Even Paradise Has Snakes “ - indeed, but most are happy to avoid you if you are careful where you step as you walk. We are surrounded by them here feeding on the frogs in the wetlands.
no worries about formatting...all three poets' words sing, bell-like, into my heart. thank you all, those still living and those whose walkabout has finished.
"bell-like". Love it!