Dancing the Paradigm

As the planets shift their orbits

in the heavens,

a time of change on earth arrives.

Thought:

what would happen if we 

expanded our perspective 

wide enough to change, 

not just a relationship,

a circumstance, a limitation,

but the entire paradigm -

if we breathed an evolution, a revolution,

an expansive flowering

of every good intention,

transforming them to action,

a New Way borning?

What would happen if we:

bought no plastic,

watched and participated in no violence,

ate no trauma from factory farms,

nurtured our children well,

believed - truly believed - in Joy?

recycled, reused, reduced,

rejected excess, embraced simplicity,

and loved ourselves and our neighbour?

Solstice wish:

May we trip the light fantastic,

prancing and cavorting

like giddy reindeer

under a waning polar moon,

conga into April sunshine with hopeful feathers

all aloft and glistening,

caper into the dawn, vibrant and smiling

and never so alive!

Come spring, I shall pull on the moss

like socks,

and tiptoe through the forest

like a sprite.

I will dip a tip-toe 

into the Pond of Peace,

and set my dreams alight

with the shine of sunset

beside the western sea.

Never before,

has there been

such a springtime of Possibility

as now I see.