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A Returning Grace: Retrospective on the June Eclipses 2011

EarthSky Oracle · July 5, 2011

Photographs by Lauren Harris

I would like to share two new poems that had my attention throughout May/June 2011. These poems are linked to specific gatherings I was part of here in my Wyoming Teton home, yet somehow I feel they might have relevance for the larger world. When I write a poem for an event, be it wedding/birth/end-of-life-earthly-celebration my intention is always this: What wants to be heard?  I have learned this question/inquiry liberates me and the words to come forth with clarity. Thank you for reading them, ingesting them, perhaps feeling the Earth coming through to speak to us. These poems came out of the profound eclipse shifts of June.

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A Returning Grace
by Lyn Dalebout

~Grace: courteous goodwill~bestowal of blessings~a short prayer of thanks~

a holy love of place
has brought us here today
with wholeness in our hearts
we sense a returning Grace

we are embedded in this land
timeless    yet eternally new
we are wedded to this land
constantly renewed

as Earth      we want you present
as Earth      we want you whole
as Earth      we seek to bridge
the great divides within each soul

once a valley of outlaws and rebels
now innovators    explorers all
celebrants of wild beauty
answering the vision questers call

feel the common ground below
embrace the unity of sky above
we live in this unified field
this land itself heals all great divides

we are embedded in this land
timeless   yet eternally new
we are wedded to this land
constantly renewed

as Earth    we want you present
as Earth    we want you whole
as Earth    we seek to balance
that which divides each soul

walk with your wild cousins
deer     antelope     great bear
hummingbirds    eagles     wrens
with mountain lions    wolves
~share~

open space for each to grow
open space for each to be free
dream        long-range     free-range
think          longevity of the whitebark trees

as Earth     we see you present
as Earth     we see you whole
as Earth     we see you balanced
as whole and holy souls

this land has a way of shifting you
you can’t remain here unchanged
destination: transformation
this gift of the Tetons remains

a holy love of place
has brought us here today
with wholeness in our hearts

may we thrive in this emerging Grace

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WiseBark: A Cambium Incantation
Poem for the ancient White Bark Pines
By Lyn Dalebout

WhiteBark Matriarch
Old Growth Patriarch

Enter our Mind Field now

Old Growth Matriarch
WhiteBark Patriarch

Engage our Mind Field now
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Like Pelican      Elephant       Whale
Keepers of the Records of Time

Beings of Eternal Wisdom
The WhiteBarks are part of this tribe

With twisting twirl and spiral dance
What  history You have seen

Lacquered in lichen     torched by lightning
Such eternity links every cell

Perched by birds     scared by fires
Scratched by the claws of great bear

You awaken within us    lessons remembered
Constellated in your wise bark core

Cambrian wisdom    ancient and kind
Resides in your cambium core

Entwined      intertwined
Your sweet nuts    caviar for carnivores

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WhiteBark Matriarch
Old Growth Patriarch

Enter our Heart Mind now

Old Growth Matriarch
Wise Bark Patriarch

Engage our Heart Mind now

~cambium is the living layer of tissue that links the newly forming present day tree with the ancient outerbark historical rings~perhaps a fitting metaphor for our job as evolutionary humans~

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My next post, soon coming is entitled ALKALIZE YOURSELF ALKALIZE THE EARTH which addresses the link between the health of the individual and the health of our beloved Earth.

**Grace to you**

Lyn Dalebout
deerlyn@gmail.com

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