[Springboard] CONFLAGRATION A POEM IN HONOR OF FATHER THOMAS BERRY

[Muriel Griffin]

Dear Forrest,

Deep feeling abeauty in your writing.  Thanks for sharing and publishing it.

It touches me and causes me to think that you have read Recovering the Sacred by Winona LaDuke and are trying to help us recover the sacred.

Muriel Griffin
 


Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 06:46:51 -0600
From: forrestecraver at gmail.com
To: springboard at wedgeblade.net
Subject: [Springboard] CONFLAGRATION A POEM IN HONOR OF FATHER THOMAS BERRY

CONFLAGRATION



TREE PEOPLE ROOTS IN MOTHER AMAZON, BURNED ALIVE
CRUCIFIED WITH WHIRLING BLADES OF STEEL
WHIPPED WITH CHAINS

BLOOD SAP OOZES ONTO THE FACE
OF THE CRYING MOTHER OF US ALL.
TREE PEOPLE DRAGGED BY MASSIVE CATERPILLARS
SHAMED WITH NO EXPLANATION

CATERPILLARS CRAWL ACROSS SACRED GROUND, HUNGRY,
RELENTLESS, BRIGHT ELECTRIC EYES BURN THROUGH THE NIGHT
DEVOURING, ADDICTED TO WOOD
THEIR STEEL SCOOPS COULD EAT YOUR ENTIRE HOUSE
IN A SINGLE BITE!

“WHY IS MOTHER EARTH BEING BURNED ALIVE?” THE TREE PEOPLE ASK EACH OTHER, WEEPING

DEER PEOPLE HUDDLE IN COUNCIL WITH RACCOON AND SQUIRREL.

BIRD PEOPLE FORGET THEIR ANCIENT PREJUDICES AND CIRCLE UP, CROW WITH
EAGLE AND OWL.

NOW EARTH MOTHER IS BURNING…CONFLAGRATION
CONFLAGRATION! HAVE THE TWO LEGGED ONES GONE MAD?

MESSAGES COMING TO US FROM THE OTHER WORLD. MESSAGES OF EARTH AND HEART. SHIFT THE LETTERS. SAME WORD. EARTH. HEART. HEART – EARTH. AS HEART DIES, MOTHER EARTH DIES.

WAKE UP SISTERS AND BROTHERS. GO TO THE LODGE OF THE HEART. TEN THOUSAND ANCESTORS STAND IN A CIRCLE OF HEARTS ON FIRE! DRUMMING, CHANTING, INVOKING
THE ANCIENT ONES CALL US BACK TO FULL HEART. BACK TO LOVING OUR MOTHER.


SPIRIT AND BLOOD OF SUN DANCERS MINGLES WITH GRIEF OF PIPE CARRIERS. GRANDFATHERS AND GRANDMOTHERS IN LODGES ACROSS THE STOMACH OF MOTHER EARTH POUR SPIRIT WATER INTO THE FLESH AND BONES OF ANCESTORS SOON TO BE.

THE SUN RISES.


WATER POURERS OPEN THE DOOR TO THE EAST, TO THE CREATOR. TEN THOUSAND SHAMAN LIGHT THEIR SAGE, CEDAR AND SWEET GRASS. INVOKING, PRAYING. DOING GIVE AWAY.
A SPIRITUAL WAR IS COMING.
FIRE MUST YIELD TO WATER.


TEARS OF THE GRANDFATHERS. SWEAT OF THE CREATOR.
SOUL WATERS COME POURING IN.
A MIGHTY STORM IS COMING TO HEAL THE CONFLAGRATION

FROM THIS WELL HAS NO BOTTOM, A LITTLE BOOK OF SPIRITUAL POETRY. Forrest Craver, c. 2009. Two Crows Press

 		 	   		  
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