Saturday, May 8, 2010

"Have You Seen Our Mother?" from Soft Moon Shining: Poems for the Mother of the Universe


Brother Wind

Have you seen our Mother?
   
Was she sitting alone and silent
   
on some lofty snow capped peak
      
as you crossed the Rocky Mountains
      
on your way to caress
      
the vast prairie grass lands?

If you see our most beautiful Mother
   
please tell her I am calling her
   
and that I can no longer contain my love

Sister Earth
Have you felt our Mother's footsteps
   
as she walked across your endless lands
   
planting the seeds
      
of creation and dissolution?

Have you heard her singing her sweet song
   
of compassion and love?
      
If so, tell her that her child
      
who loves her so very much
         
has awakened from his long nap
         
and yearns to hug his Mother once again

Sister Ocean
Has our Mother passed through your rivers today
   
on her way to direct the waters of eternity
   
up into her garden of clouds
      
floating in the deep blue sky of primal awareness?

Or have you felt her moving in the unfathomable depths
   
of your inky black belly
      
where she often goes to stir
      
the boiling cauldron of destiny?

If you know where our sweetest of Mothers is
   
please tell her
   
that I am unable to stop the flood of tears
      
that rises from the well of my deep longing
         
and that I yearn to hold her
         
and to be held by her again

Brother Sun
Nothing at all escapes your warm life giving gaze!
   
Please look all around now from your high place
   
and tell me if you see our Mother's dancing form
     
as she goes about her many tasks
       
- can you catch a glimpse of her shadow
       
as it plays on the steep cliffs of revelation?

If so, please tell her to come for her child
   
who stands now in his crib
      
gripping tightly and shaking
      
the constraining rail of the ego
         
crying Mother! Mother! Mother!
            
unable to find contentment in anything but her

If you see her
   
please kiss her affectionately for me
   
and tell her to come quickly
      
as I am through sleeping and dreaming
         
and only want to be with her


"Soft Moon Shining: Poems for the Mother of the Universe"
By Ethan Walker III


Photo Credit: Facebook Page "Moon"


Happy Divine Mother's Day to all Friends of the Heart

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