Inspiration is Always Present

I walk with care

clearing paths

iced over

lead feet

dragging

a broken foot

my companion

Listen to

first spring

bird song –

chickadees

and doves!

January

thaw

 a steel

  fixture

punctuated

by frozen

slippery hell –

Temperatures

soar and dip

 swelling

wild waves –

Soul stay

attached

to Body

Be Octopus* 

Sensing feeling

tasting

her way

befriending

the Other –

Keep a keen

eye on shifts

one is coming

perhaps

relief

from nightmares

too.

I look to

 rushing brook

for inspiration

natural joy

open waters

 flowing stone

sooth muscles 

 loosens old bones.

Rigidity will not do!

See the Hemlock

bent so low

She won’t break

My Talisman 

As mystic she

 reminds me

Endurance

Is All.

Hemlock in center…

*There is a moving documentary that I have watched a number of times called: “My Octopus Teacher” about a man who befriends an octopus who in turn becomes attached to him… A naturalist who is thrilled by the wonder of his experience with this animal he remains stuck in the colonized western thought process. “An octopus shouldn’t be this intelligent” he states after saying that 2/3rds of the octopus brain is in its tentacles, only a 1/3 in actual brain – here we see the colonization. Humans are STUCK on brains and measure every other species by brain capacity – refusing to acknowledge that many creatures don’t even have brains and yet they do fantastically intelligent things – if we have brains – brain and body create intelligence as a whole. BODY carries everything intellect does not – inner knowing – intuition – feeling – sensing – experiencing ALL WAYS OF KNOWING THAT COMPLIMENT THE BRAIN IF THERE IS ONE – Materialistic science calls befriending ‘ lower animals’ nonsense – informs me that receiving communication from a tree or dog or fern is just fantasy – when I am using ALL MY DESNES TO DISCERN WHEN OTHERS DO NOT… IF CREATURES HAVE BRAINS IN THEIR SKULLS FINE – IF THEY ARE LIKE THE OCTUPUS THEIR BRAINS ARE IN THEIR TENTACLES. I use my brain and all my senses…This man falls in love with his octopus but doesn’t acknowledge it beyond saying he feels wonder and grief… This film could show us other ways of seeing if we would just allow ourselves to move beyond the stupid brain box we are stuck inNot all species are interested in technology – humans are – that’s fine – we have created marvels but just because animals choose NOT to doesn’t make them less intelligent… human have brought the earth into crisis – not the rest of nature – does this give us a hint?