Poetry For Now

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This is the second podcast following our trip through national parks and local hikes.  In this episode we are in Utah, where we stayed 5 days in Moab, exploring the area before moving on to Mesa Verde.

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It's been about a month of silence from me. During that time Kassandra and I have traveled to six national parks and I completed a landscape photography course in the Badlands of South Dakota. Now I am preparing for a walk around Mont blanc. At the same time I have been editing thousands of photographs taken during our trip. Strangely I find it difficult to be creative visually and with words at the same time, so here goes - here come the words.

This episode starts in South Dakota and Wyoming, and takes us across the Rockies into Utah.

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These poems came out of a  few days in DC the nations capital finding the RENWICK Gallery of Folk Art  inspiring and discovering the outside artwork and murals on the Metropolitan bike trail and buildings around Washington DC and also  experiencing the National Zoo.  The last poem was written in 2011 about WARLI art created in India.  You will see the connection!

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I am sitting here in a wild Florida summer monsoon storm: rain, thunder and lightning.  You will probably hear the sounds of the storm and this is a perfect backdrop for the idea that nothing physical is permanent and that everything - almost everything - is changing every moment.
You will hear poems about how technology, time and nature change AND we can create our own unique future.

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In this episode you will hear about Ernest Hemingway, Tea and the wonderful, positive impact the pandemic shutdowns have had on the natural world.  My hope is that we can continue to protect and support the natural world intentionally, instead of simply as a side effect.

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Its May 16, 2021 International Day of Light and International Day of living together in Peace.   Yet we are now witnessing a horrible conflict in the Middle East.

Many years ago Swami Muktananda gave a talk:  Life is a play of Sunlight and Shadow.

You cannot avoid seeing both, but you can choose how to experience them.  I personally have negative and positive feelings that I may choose to express, and invite you through this poetry to enter the door and join me on this journey, as we remember our humanity, our true nature, our spiritual Self, and witness the material and physical reality we live in.  

As long as we remember whom we truly are in our hearts, we can play our roles with joy and love and we will do our best to make this world a better place. 

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May 2021 - for over a year we have been living cautiously waiting for this pandemic to go away.  We have been resilient and flexible.  We must keep resilient, and we can keep learning about resilience from many unexpected sources, such as:
Toothpaste and sunscreen.
Tricolor Herons
Magnolias
Swamps
Scam callers!!
 

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Covid is still with us, so simple delights of being in nature and reading a good book are pleasant rewards and a good use of the extra time we have saved by buying over the internet instead of “shopping around”.  This episode tells stories in short poems about birds, books & buying in this new reality.  The final poem honors EARTH day and our place and role as human beings on this special Planet Earth.

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It has been one year since we started this podcast, so now it seems the right time to restart with Season 2 Episode 1.    Springtime -  Just as we have hopes of emerging from the worst of the Covid pandemic, we have emerged from one era of political leadership in the US,  into a new world of leadership focused on recovery and regeneration, rebuilding and rebalancing.  This time can become our golden hour, and 2021 our golden year.
Poems in this episode are: 

• Passover & Easter (Again).  
• One year of Transformation
• The Golden Hour
• Moving forward

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Do you remember when as a child you played on a seesaw, shooting up high and coming down with a thump absorbing the shock with your bent legs.  It is Spring 2021 and these poems reflect my personal and our communal seesawing experience of the last few months.
The poems are about:  the Covid Tipping Point;  Our most powerful fears; Aging: Zooming;  Ups & Downs of life;   Not quite saying goodbye!

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