TWO POEMS FOR GAIA: - As Clouds Part / Joing Her in the Dance
Don Hynes
As Clouds Part
You are never far away
though I wander the streets
among crowds of guests
enjoying your food and wine,
unaware of their benefactor;
you hear each voice and footstep,
the whole of your sentience
alive with deep feeling.
I speak silently
from the mass
grateful for all
you have given me
and for this communion
in morning light
as clouds part
revealing your palest blue.
Joining Her in the Dance
Behind the beaten down bars,
the pool halls and juke joints
and glitzy showrooms for trinkets
of another passing generation,
just behind this coarse scale
another world, vibrant and green,
alive with rich trees
and vines that convey her magic
from deep within the inner Earth
to the streams of our imagination,
a new world waiting to be seen
as the old one drops like dust,
the obscuring cloud still present
in these last of the old days
but through the haze
the first sight of her invitation,
her hand extended in a graceful way
touching the part of us ready to awaken
and join her in the music,
the dance of our next birth.
Don Hynes