Butterfly - by Linda Hogan(Emergence Magazine)

In the strong earth fragrance

I am part of the tree,

held against it. Brother, Sister,

we came from the cellular division,

its math already figured

many thousands of years

in the beginning,

in the far distance

of the journey,

the fragrance of leaves,

the taste of dew.

I was part of the tree, feeling

the leaves so heavy with

that morning damp,

awaiting the spectacle of sunset,

the evening blue, that vision of night.

Long ago, intruders

forced us to cross this land to the Black Prairie,

where glow worms shine all night

part of the magic of their life.

We traveled the ledge above a river

to the Long House village.

We are the clan of crossings

and the young transformed themselves,

opened their silk, crossed into full,

wing life to fly with all others

at once indigo blue, cerulean, their beauty

leaving us behind to watch,

knowing we crossed time

into the swarm of trees.

This generation; it is time to hunger,

each life still and watching the young

take again to our ways.

We look back and look forward,

remember the beginning.

We remember the milk of stars,

and drink the light.

#Emergence-Magazine #Linda-Hogan #butterfly #magic

Aloha ‘Āina - Directed by Adam Loften and Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee (Part 2 of Shifting Landscapes - Emergence Magazine Series)

"What does it mean to love the land? For acclaimed Kanaka Maoli poet and activist Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio, this love is held in aloha ‘āina, a Hawaiian concept that teaches if we are connected to one another, it is only because we are connected to the land which nourishes us both. Laying bare the remaking of Hawai‘i from a place where people and land have lived in kinship for thousands of years to a place colonized with projections of pleasure and profit, Jamaica summons the true spirit of aloha. At the forefront of the fight to prevent a thirty-meter telescope from being constructed at the summit of Mauna Kea—the most sacred mountain in Hawai‘i—she speaks verses that command love and responsibility for any land that has fed and held us."

#documentary #Emergence-Magazine #Adam-Loften #Emmanuel-Vaughan-Lee #series #nature #ecology

The Nightingale’s Song - An Interview with Sam Lee

Hopefully some inspiring reading for those interested in such things?

#Emergence-Magazine #Sam-Lee #Intervies #ecology #Nightingales

To Be Held - by Linda Hogan

To be held

by the light

was what I wanted,

to be a tree drinking the rain,

no longer parched in this hot land.

To be roots in a tunnel growing

but also to be sheltering the inborn leaves

and the green slide of mineral

down the immense distances

into infinite comfort

and the land here, only clay,

still contains and consumes

the thirsty need

the way a tree always shelters the unborn life

waiting for the healing

after the storm

which has been our life.

#poetry #Linda-Hogan #Emergence-magazine