Monday, October 28, 2024

DANCING THE PARADIGM

 



On the cusp of Samhain
the time when the veils between the world
grows thin, can you hear the Ancestors
urging us to expand our perspective
wide enough to change
the earth's music
to a brand new song?

To breathe an evolution,
a revolution, an expansive flowering
of every good intention
dancing the edge of
a new paradigm?

A shift is happening
on Planet Earth.
Our souls rise to meet it
with joy.

Come, let’s trip the light fantastic,
prancing and cavorting like giddy reindeer
under a waxing polar moon,
conga into winter sunshine with hopeful feathers
all aloft and glistening,
caper into the dawn, vibrant and smiling
and never so alive!

Join me. We’ll pull on moss
like sweet little socks,
tiptoe through the forest
like sprites, dip our tippy-toes
into the Pond of Peace
set all our dreams alight
with the shine of sunset
over the wilding sea.

Mother Earth is calling us
to a new paradigm,
a more conscious way
of being on the earth.
A birdsong symphony is playing,
so crank the music loud,
and dance,
my fellow wood-sprites.
Dance for all you're worth.


A caveat: This sounds more hopeful than I actually am at the moment, but I am heartened by things I am reading that encourage us to change our vibration to one of living together on earth in a way that nurtures life, rather than destroying it. I once believed this shift would happen in time. But my hope remains that it will happen, if only in response to the calamities we are beginning to experience. When everything feels impossible, what is left is the Possibility of Change.



3 comments:

  1. I love that - when everything feels impossible, what is left is the possibility of change - but I wish I shared your hope, Sherry. I have just read that 2024 is likely to be the warmest year on record, beating 2023, and the UN emissions gap report that tells us we are way way off-track for 1.5...probably heading to much much more...

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  2. We need to hold on to hope and dream of the possibility of change. If we were more of a dreaming society we could accomplish great wonders. I know some days, we are haunted by nightmares.

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  3. ". A shift is happening
    on Planet Earth.
    Our souls rise to meet it
    with joy. "

    Oh, I hope you are right, Sherry. We will see after election day if we are heading in the right direction.

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