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Julie Roehm's avatar

“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.

Amrita Skye Blaine's avatar

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)

Daniel Skach-Mills's avatar

Another poem with words that could change lives...Thank you for sharing this!

Amrita Skye Blaine's avatar

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.

Greg Carman's avatar

“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.

felice rhiannon's avatar

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.

Amrita Skye Blaine's avatar

"bell-like". Love it!