Monday, December 30, 2019

Solstice Prayer, Laucini Peak, 2019

Here on the summit, bodies weary
And exhilarated, below this gorgeous sky,
Silver gray and grave
As Ireland in November, we ask

For clarity on this day of great
Darkness to know fertile
Spaciousness, the blazing hearth
Of our true home.

Help us to re-member this place
Of simple being, of ease beneath
The mountain of rock and moss

And sage, the quiet inside the clatter
Of habitual thought, the shimmering
Love welling up behind facades
Of seductive regret.

May we hold close, yet lightly,
Those we have loved, who
Like whispers in December wind
Have vanished and somehow stay

Bound still in this mystery of earth and sky,
Memory and breath, where wordlessness
Circles deeper, on and on and on:

Twin hawks dissolving into twilight’s
Golden arms.

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