Poems for the Season
1/2/2010
This poem was submitted by one of our amazing student teachers
O' GREAT SPIRIT,
Whose voice I hear in the winds,
And whose breath gives life to all the world,
hear me! I am small and weak, I need your
strength and wisdom.
Let Me Walk In Beauty, and make my eyes
ever behold the red and purple sunset.
Make My Hands Respect the things you have
made and my ears sharp to hear your voice.
Make Me Wise so that I may understand the
things you have taught my people.
Let Me Learn the lessons you have hidden
in every leaf and rock.
I Seek Strength, not to be greater than my
brother, but to fight my greatest
enemy...myself.
Make Me Always Ready to come to you with
clean hands and straight eyes.
So When Life Fades, as the fading sunset,
my spirit may come to you
without shame.
Sit in Stillness
Only within the void does truth enter.
Within emptiness you become filled with what you are searching for
-Ruby Plenty Chiefs
Poem for the Fall Season
Sunset on the Last Day of Hunting Season
What deer still remain are far back in the woods by now.
They count their losses. The others count
their trophies. The score is even.
It’s always a tie in the duality game.
-Poetry by Joan Ruvinsky
The Peace of Wild Things
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
to fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
Wendell Berry
Lie on the earth, be the earth and all that is!!!!
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