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There’s something more
It’s here
Inside the pale blue
Between the yellow light
And the branch’s skin
There is green, too,
Dark in the shadow
We can make it human
I suppose we always do
But there is another planet here,
A world whose talk
Is in the leaves
Whose senses know the light
And every color
Every texture,
Each thing that moves so that
Another thing might live—
It’s all cooperation
Learn from this
Don’t make it human yet;
It’s intimate already
It’s conscious because energy
Has wisdom
And gravity a story
The tree is a tale that moves
And also waits
So much to tell
More so than mute artifice
We should know this
And as we don’t
So wait!
All things are here
Enough for life, because it’s life
A history if
We could pull the sunbeams from the
Earth to read
We can’t for now
So listen, please
With all concrete senses
Best that we can do—
Please, listen
To the story that could save us
Every day,
If we don’t destroy
The binding and
The pages
Let ink run as blood from entropy,
Our self-made ruin
Of whole things,
Run into empty land
And lifeless water
Reclaimed by
An angry universe
Having expected
So much more
With all that had been given
Every word in nature
No wonder why
The angel kept, outside
Of paradise,
A flaming sword
Pressed by what’s inside
Ignited by protection of what’s true,
True stories, more
Than what we wrote
And what we wrote that we forget
Still having a last chance to hear
To receive
If only by the gateway,
A last chance to learn
C L Couch
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February 23, 2020 at 6:02 pm
I hope we do have a last chance to listen. Yes, it is all here already. We don’t have to stamp it with anything of ours to validate.
February 26, 2020 at 7:15 pm
It is all here, you’re right, even the instruments for hearing.
February 24, 2020 at 1:33 am
Most lovely, loving, and well said…
February 26, 2020 at 7:16 pm
Thank you, Lizl! I deeply appreciate your response.
February 26, 2020 at 4:36 am
“The tree is a tale that moves
And also waits”
so much wisdom in your lines, brother. you capped it well. I hope we hear. I hope we all listen.
February 26, 2020 at 7:17 pm
I know, sister, that you know the vital importance of listening. Too many people think it’s automatic, just because we have ears. And yet among the better listeners I know are deaf persons.
February 27, 2020 at 3:45 am
I cannot agree more, brother!