Donna Carey
Suddenly
thirsty fields
with poring rain
take on
renewed
green beauty
Elk dancing with colored scarves
jubilee from Noah’s ark
everything welcome
Bison
teach in far reaches
sing in mountains
plod on beaches
something restored
Rains settle over burn scars
accept quiet healing
Do we?
Trust
Understand
water won’t be the end of us
just a beginning
we will be the end of us
(think we are winning?)
Elk perform rituals
Patient with humanity’s
reticence
restoring countenance
of sanity’s rainbow
In the whirlpool of sensation
Elk averse to misinformation
dance with colored scarves
recreation
pueblo drums beat in the distance
inviting hearts to new resistance
challenge tides of supreme rule
supplicate
to natures jewels
dance with elk
dream with elk
out of social trance
prepare fertile soil’s
renaissance
beyond culture wars
senseless toils
endless royals
here’s the door
(to relevance anymore)
Monarchs should be butterflies
Centuries construct
skewed ledgers
endless gains endless losses
we remain hibernating
cries are for celebrating
sloughing the mosses
worlds we created
all existence
is ready for us
despite ignorant persistence
bathe in regeneration
thirsty fields with
pouring rain take on
renewed green beauty
disparate chords of new sensation
elk wait for us there
Manifesting
Robustly patient
Stoic
Their duty
Our quest: Nothing short of heroic