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    Hi everyone !

    Reading suggestion for this week… Omom sent me the following poem :

    Prayer for the Great Family
    By Gary Snyder

    Gratitude to Mother Earth, sailing through night and day—
    and to her soil: rich, rare and sweet
    in our minds so be it.

    Gratitude to Plants, the sun-facing, light-changing leaf
    and fine root-hairs; standing still through wind
    and rain; their dance is in the flowering spiral grain
    in our minds so be it.

    Gratitude to Air, bearing the soaring Swift and silent
    Owl at dawn. Breath of our song
    clear spirit breeze
    in our minds so be it.

    Gratitude to Wild Beings, our brothers, teaching secrets,
    freedoms, and ways; who share with us their milk;
    self-complete, brave and aware
    in our minds so be it.

    Gratitude to Water: clouds, lakes, rivers, glaciers;
    holding or releasing; streaming through all
    our bodies salty seas
    in our minds so be it.

    Gratitude to the Sun: blinding pulsing light through
    trunks of trees, through mists, warming caves where
    bears and snakes sleep— he who wakes us—
    in our minds so be it.

    Gratitude to the Great Sky
    who holds billions of stars— and goes yet beyond that—
    beyond all powers, and thoughts
    and yet is within us—
    Grandfather Space.
    The Mind is his Wife.
    so be it.


    Gary Snyder, Turtle Island (after a Mohawk prayer)
    New Directions, New York, 1974.

    Gary Snyder won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry with Turtle Island. A wise and remarkable work of poems and prose most of which is still relevant today in the 21st century.

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    See you soon !

    Yuki 雪.
    Last edited by Yuki; 06-14-2021 at 01:04 PM.

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