Music Monday: Wings of Night Sky, Wings of Morning Light: Joy Harjo

Today is the first day of Poetry Month. Wee!

Joy Harjo is a poet (former Poet Laureate of the US) as well as a singer and musician. Here's 6 minutes of a show she did many years ago. She is a Native American, member of the Muscogee Nation.

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Poetry Month

April is Poetry Month! Yay!

So in my bullet journal, the monthly spread reflects that theme.



My first poem is a poem that I will read on Wednesday to my meditation group. It's my turn to lead the group this Wednesday and I like sometimes to read my own verse to close the session. The poem (English sonnet) reflects one of the images our guru uses to illustrate what the meditator should strive for during meditation. It's also for the prompt #26 'enlightened' at emotion100

enlightened by okapi

Observe as oil is poured from flask to flask
in unbroken, uninterrupted stream
Watch the flow, without gap, from cask to cask
un-diverted, unhindered, without seam

Remember years of training, lifetimes spent
in pouring drops and drips, ego as child,
when thoughts weren’t ever thought but rather spent.
they splattered like grease, purposeless and wild.

Know the strain to unify will, to still
the mind, with grace, to jettison the dross
to pour with steady hand, not shake or spill
to meditate, without pause or loss

Not prophet, saint, or god, only awake,
the enlightened one’s oil flows without break

Poet's Corner: The Path to the Milky Way Leads Through Los Angeles by Joy Harjo

The Path to the Milky Way Leads Through Los Angeles by Joy Harjo

There are strangers above me, below me and all around me and we are all
strange in this place of recent invention.

This city named for angels appears naked and stripped of anything resembling
the shaking of turtle shells, the songs of human voices on a summer night
outside Okmulgee.

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