Dreaming in Yellow and Red

Little Man

2009-02-21T19:32:00.003Z

So I go blithely on!
Setting out each day
Bag on my arm
And shoes nicely polished
To live in my world
Doing my things
Proud of myself
Well almost
And there you stand
Or rather slouch!
Unwashed
Unshaven
With a leer
And calling my bluff!

Where there's a will

2009-02-21T19:29:00.000Z

If I knew for sure
Would I concur
In the erosion
Of my will
I think not
But as it is
And not being sure
Only suspecting
I dismiss resisting you
Luxuriate
Give in
Submit
Get lost
In your concept
Of the world

Dreaming again

2007-11-09T17:31:00.001Z

It was a dream and I know it
You were all warmth and gold
All the colours of Sunshine
You at the centre of a world
Like no other
You old as time itself
But nimble like the Spring
And your music
Making a still point
Where none was before

Grandfather

2007-06-21T11:18:00.000Z

Grandfather on the plains
Looks to an orange sky
Raising his eyes from Mother Earth
Dreaming with Father Sky
Clarity in the ancient mind
Resolution
Resolution and fulfillment
Peace – Sky and Earth together
Passing beyond time and space
“We are here” sing the rocks
“We are here” hum the distant mountains
All are one in meditation.

Rainbows

2007-05-24T16:52:00.003Z

Rainbows
Rainbows and colours
You are all rainbows
You are all colours
Created from pure white light
Moonbeams and sunbeams
Direct and refracted light
All the pieces of the rainbow
And dancing with life itself
You are all colour
You are all sound
Vibrating
Oscillating
And flowing with the rhythm of life

Water dreams

2007-05-07T13:36:00.002Z

Let us be close to still water
Deep in the forest
With filtered light
Falling through tall trees
Let us watch tiny flying things
Dancing to the music of the leaves

Oh come with me
To the quiet peace of that place
Sit with me on mossy rocks
Our feet cooling in the green water
Tell me your stories of content
In a sleepy afternoon

Let us saunter down water lanes
To lost places
With the smell of salty earth to guide us
And daises and marguerites
Nodding our way
Come to the pure, cool spring
And wash your tired eyes

For the Healing

2007-04-20T14:26:00.001Z

In the darkness
Drums are beating
Telling of a ancient wrong
Do you hear them
Oh my Sister?
Can you sing
Old sorrow's song?
Did your Mother
Tell the story
As you sat beside her hearth?
Did your Father
Tell your Brother
As they trod the forest path?
Song of sorrow
Song of history
Like a birthmark on the skin
Only love can heal the wound now!
Only love forgive the sin
Love sung out
By hearth,
In forest
Let the heart song
Now begin

Waiting for trains

2007-04-05T17:06:00.003Z

Watching
But not seeing each other
The careful avoidance of the eyes
Distance achieved by awareness
That is not recognition
I know who you are
And sometimes
You wonder about me
But we don't speak
Knowing that would be
An intimacy too far
An exposure
Almost like peeling off a skin
But I look for you among the commuters
And I miss you when you aren't there

Choice

2007-03-30T13:16:00.000Z

Long ago and somewhere else
In a long and scented evening
You sat cross legged beside my door
Your deep rich voice sent tremors through me
You told the old stories
Your memories of the old ways
I can hear that voice
I can see your heavy lidded eyes, half shut
Almost a trance between us
Somewhere a dog howled like a wolf
And you were no longer my hero
Your could no longer be my friend
And we both knew
You would no longer wake alone

Red Rocks

2007-03-23T18:54:00.000Z

Shimmers of memory
Long before memory
Visions and echoes here
Long, long ago
Someone is singing here
At the edge of my hearing
Shadows are moving
At the edge of my eye
Others have walked this place
Others have wandered here
Left us their dreams
Long, long ago
Time before present time
Place before this place
They left their echoes here
Left us their blessing
Here in the rocks around
Under this sky

Companion

2007-03-23T18:49:00.000Z

Wolf running with me
Ancient spirit

Wolf running with me
Gentle councillor

Wolf running with me
Noble Brother

Wolf running with me
Honoured teacher

Wolf running with me
Cherished friend

On Equinox Eve

2007-03-20T21:18:00.000Z

Can you see
Light from the South
Glowing across the Sky

Can you see
Light from the North
Cradling the Earth

Can you see
Two great hearts
Joining, becoming one

Can you see
Two great lights
Joining with Sun and Moon

No shadows left now
No dark places left
To grow the seeds of war

Can you see
Seeds of peace
Flowering on the new day

2007-03-16T10:01:00.000Z

Usually I only put poetry on this site but this is important -
Please look at the flyer -
With gratitude to Nagual
http://nagual.wordpress.com/tag/dreaming/
Further information at
info@earthworksforhumanity.org
Website www.earthworksforhumanity.org

Bridging the Americas - Reuniting the Eagle and the Condor

“When the Eagle once again flies with the Condor,
a lasting peace will reign in the Americas
and will spread throughout the world to unite humanity.”

Download PDF Flyer - 352 KB

Elders Gather to usher in

Peace and Unity

Elders Gathering at Lake Titicaca, Peru
March 19 - 23, 2007

An amazing event will take place in Peru over the Spring Equinox 2007. Elders from Indigenous tribes of the Americas will gather at Lake Titicaca to council and listen to our Mother Earth, and perform ceremony and ritual that will beckon in the prophesied Age of Peace, 500 years of unity and shared vision between peoples who have, for the last 500 years been scattered and oppressed. When the peoples of the Americas once again unite, the prophecy states, it will create worldwide transformation, allowing all of humanity to move from the depths of war into the light of peace.

The poem below "For the gathering" is a prayer for this event.

Spring Song

2007-03-15T11:23:00.000Z

I was dry
You brought me water
Spirit soaring now
Spirit soaring

I was cold
You brought me fire
Spirit soaring now
Spirit soaring

Water of life
And inspiration
Spirit soaring now
Spirit soaring

And my love
Is overflowing
Spirit soaring now
Spirit soaring

And my heart
Is spirit led
Heart is soaring now
Heart is soaring

Spirits of nature
Join my spirit
Joy is soaring now
Joy is soaring

For the Gathering!

2007-03-13T12:13:00.000Z

Brother Eagle
Brother Condor
Share the air
My mighty Brothers
Born of one united Sun
Glide together
Mighty Brothers
Honour us
Beneath your wings
Brother Eagle
Brother Condor
Bless your children
Make us one
Born of wisdom
Born of wonder
Let your People
Stand as one

Echoes

2007-03-13T12:09:00.000Z

Hear your people
Of the forest
Echoes of the
Mighty heart

We are here
Spirits to guide you
We are here
Spirits beside you

Fathers of your
Skin and sinew
Mothers of your
Blood and bone

When you breathe
Your breath
Is our breath
When you cry
Our tears fall

Leaf and tree
And sea and river
Echoing round you
With our call

Walking on the wind

2007-03-12T10:25:00.000Z

Come walking on the wind with me
My brother of the wild west wind
Touch my hand lightly
As we will touch the world

Come walking on the wind with me
My brother of an ancient line
Leave these shadow lands
And follow me into the light

Come walking on the wind with me
My brother of the mountain tops
Come kiss the clouds
And join me spirit to spirit whole

When we met!

2007-03-12T07:42:00.000Z

Do you remember when we met?
It was winter
But all I remember
Is sunshine on your face

You taught me the history of reggae
With a wall of vinyl
Warm colours
In a room full of sound

Scribbling on trains

2007-03-07T16:15:00.001Z

How many poets are there
writing on commuter trains?
Does every carriage contain someone
scribbling in notebooks
or on PDA?
Each one of us reflecting
our own reality to a world
much too busy to look.
Each one sharing a core experience
and sometimes peering over
another's shoulder
and wondering!
Each one adopting rules
specific to writing on trains
like some strange masonic rite.
Don't rubbish mine and I won't rubbish yours!

Home

2007-02-23T15:35:00.000Z

I used to live alone
In a high, white house,
Sepulchral and remote,
Stone built, like ancient bones.

Now I live in different place!
Full of colours!
Ringing with voices,
And the sound of water!

My desert house
Would crack in the sun at noon.
My forest house is verdant with growing things
And dappled sunshine falling through leaves!

There thought was ever clear and other!
Here thought is frequently confused but always now!

Tatanka Beat

2007-02-20T21:09:00.001Z

Thunder

Little Brother

Do you hear them

Drumming deeply

They are coming

Little Brother

To reclaim

Their holy land

Thunder

Little Brother

Ancient herds

Are drumming deeply

And your gentle

Feathered Brother

Leads them onward

Take my hand

You can follow

Little Brother

Herd and tribe

Are one again

Thunder

Little Brother

Heart of beast

And soul of man

Feathers on the lawn!

2007-02-20T21:01:00.000Z

I live in Catford
And there are feathers
On my front lawn!
A fox has killed a seagull!
Nothing odd in that
Foxes killing seagulls
Among the cats and dogs
And neat thirties semis.

At night there are
strange jungle noises.
Weird sounds
Of things possibly dying!
Not people, I suppose!
But that does happen!
The odd stabbing
Or shooting
In Catford
Shortly to be
By the Sea.

Hither Green Station

2007-02-20T20:30:00.000Z

Its the first of February
And I can see
A blackberry ripening
Under an apple tree
But we smile and ignore it!

It cannot be
We will not see
A blackberry ripening
In February
So we smile and ignore it!

But its still there!

Soulmate

2007-02-19T19:11:00.000Z

Once, just once in time
Comes a soul mate
Something rings your bells
And you know
Your words or theirs
Not love
Not attraction
Something more fundamental
Like a vibration in the earth
And you know
You will be home with them
And find your peace
The other part of you
Making you complete

Earth Mother

2007-02-19T11:59:00.001Z

The earth is weeping
Hot salt tears
And her sobs
Shake our foundations
Can't you hear our mother weep?

We are your children
Born of your soil
Put together with twig
And blade of grass
And a voice from your song bird

Forgive us mother
Let your mighty rivers
Cleanse us of our fault

Mother is weeping
Her hot earthy tears
Are flooding the land
And her pain
Shakes our foundations

Three Buffalos

2007-02-16T20:41:00.000Z

When I see three buffalos
When the mystic buffalo
Tramples my earth
And the breath from his nostrils
Warms me in the frosty morning
Then will it be
And we shall become
Spirit of spirit
All nature one
When I see three buffalos

Black notebooks

2007-02-16T20:33:00.000Z

They gave me black notebooks
A present for my birthday
The ivory pages soft and ready to receive
The pen in my hand insistent
Black notebooks
For a sad time
A time of change
And those who gave them
Would not meet again
We knew it then
And the black notebooks
Were my mourning coat
For things remembered

Dead but not quite still

2007-02-16T20:29:00.000Z

I love ivy on dead trees
Insinuating, covering
Becoming other
Slender tendrils
Becoming solid shapes
Like monsters
Arms outstretched
Dead but not quite still
And churchyard birds
Peering with bright eyes
From sinister leafy places

Winter

2007-02-16T20:22:00.000Z

And now the leaves will go
Frost damaged in January
And those sly, black birds
Gliding near by
Will peck and peck
Until the stalks of branches
Quiver cold
Their early buds
Rag remnants
Torn to lace

The ducks are flying over Deptford
Their quacks blending with traffic noise
Small shadows
In the large amber sky
And city sky scapes
Distant crags in an endless sea
That is grey and sinister
And on the edge of churning

Shamans

2007-02-16T20:14:00.000Z

I have a sunset dream.
It is of another place,
Mellowed with time and dust,
Yellow and red.
And you,
Face furrowed,
Deep with questions,
And the years,
Wind hardened,
Smoke withered,
Telling tales
Of dreams on mountain tops.
The dance slow pounding
To your words,
And a drum beating
Like a heart.