EarthWords~

Morning dew meets rising sun

Light splatters like star-matter shot from a gun

BANG- the colors burst forth

They mingle and shine

Dissolving, evolving with rhythm and rhyme

Constellations of jewels, and precious-cut stones

They sparkle sublime, they shine from below

Their luminous nature mimics our own

The current that courses from skin through to bone

Electric spectrum from root to crown

Refracted fractal patterns of chakra channels

And foot-soul touch-down

Flesh meets clay, as daylight gives birth

To the myriad wonders that spawn from the earth

And dawn responds with natural mirth

And we catch the exchange, the wondrous play

Saluting the sun we chant praise and pray

We seek to obey, for to do so is love

Is to reach up and grab what comes down from above

The eternal hug of brahma’s embrace

The practice of looking each man/one in the face

And seeing his/her eyes, and what’s held beneath

Those lipid reflections inspecting so deep

God seeks to bequeath the lotus leaf wreath

To all of us, teaching devotion technique

Devotion to earth, and water, and air

And fire, and all that result when they share

The thick, red rays of afternoon haze

The mix of sun and dirt in which we ritually bathe

This is the way, the age-old dance

Of human, and soil, and spirit, and plants

Bent and burnt backs, naked and graceful

Move slow through the groves of papaya and mango

Bap, bap, d’bap bap

The sacred rhythm that sets the tone in like that.

I said uh’bap, bap, d’bap bap

Steady the hand, tough and tan, of humble farmer cat

So day wanes at eve’s approach

The dust entrusts the holy ghost

The earthly host on which we roam

Who in the end will take us home

And swallow us into her maw

The origin that birthed us all

And truth of death and fleeting chance

Makes morning dew the true romance

~India, 2006