When Sun Dogs Dance Across the Sky

Wickaninnish Beach Sun Dog

by Mark Kiver

(the driftwood looks like a wolf to me)

When sun dogs dance across the sky,

the sacred prophecy is at hand,

as the Children of the Rainbow

begin to walk across the land.

Hush, now, and listen,
for the Grandmothers are speaking:

"Like a new-born, wobbly foal, 

you're trying to find your skittery legs,
in a time of great change
as land and waters re-arrange.
You'll feel the wobble in the earth
turmoil in the land and sea.
As our Mother Earth  gives birth,
we'll learn a balanced way to be."

The people of the Rainbow

were born seeing with new eyes.

May those ready to awaken
hear our Mother's painful cries.

"Getting More must now give way 

to the sharing of All with All.

We must return to the Old Ways,
let polluted systems fall.

There will be turmoil in the turning.

Trust those with  twinkles in their eyes.
They are cool water to ease the burning.
They are the Messengers, so wise." 

Mother Earth, I feel you quickening
as the new world is a-borning,
like a shape-shifter, transforming,
response to evolution's dawning.

"In the time of whirling rainbows, 

dance your prayers under the sky. 

Listen to the song of the wolves,
fate of the wild world in their cry.

"Sing songs of love and peace.
Watch for a rainbow 'round the sun.
When sun dogs dance across the sky,
the Fifth World of Peace will have begun.

Ah, ho. Now we have spoken."

Thank you, Grandmothers, 
for this hope and trust.

We will help the people change, 
because change we must.

We will sing with the wolves 
our song of tomorrow,

work to mend and heal the planet's people 

and the earth  its sorrow.

*To the Navajo and the Hopi, the Prophecy of the Whirling Rainbow speaks of Ancestors who will return in white bodies, but who are Red on the inside. They will learn to walk the Earth Mother in balance again. The generation following the Flower Children are prophesied to be the ones who will see the dawning of the Fifth World of Peace.

source:  Whirling Rainbow Prophecy

How this poem came to be : In an email to my friend Truedessa, I wrote: "We will sing with the wolves our song of tomorrow," and recognized it had poem potential.  Truedessa suggested we each write a poem including that line, to be posted this Sunday. I am so looking forward to reading hers at True Wanderings.

posted for the Poetry Pantry at Poets United.