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River Ripa
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Poet of the mystic forests🧚🏼‍♀️ Inspired by the birds, enchanted by the cosmos, invoked by compassion, emptied by awareness. Words and photos my own© unless otherwise noted. ‘Of the Earth: planetary poetry’ at https://a.co/d/0xS2KrT
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I’m transmitted its light-spun memories
Coursing from stone to spine to soul
It holds the wisdom of a thousand grandmas
This earthen elder, keeper of steadiness

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The dragons become whales
My mind becomes water
Unclouded by the clouds
Unearthed by the color
Beneath sky, only hope

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I follow the blue damselfly
its black feathery wings
heart goes so light I lift, too
along the narrow pass
the colors in me show
dull purples, shy golds
an effort of a human

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📸Bonnie Nielsen
“It’s not your job to be ecstatically happy,” The shifting sky said. “It’s not your job to be inconsolably sad, either. It’s your job to be deeply aware. And to be deeply aware is to be peace.”

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The heavy in me
the electric in me
the moon rings that reach
To the forest in me
The wine that’s in me
The truth that’s in me
The hope that slow grows
On the dying in me

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How do I explain to the bunny — enblissed in his sunset leaf dinner, surrounded by fireflies, brutally interrupted by thunderous explosions — that the fireworks will not kill him?

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The water that’s coursed for billions of years courses through us.

How ancient we are, how big our family. We recognize every stream from the water within.

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More often than not
the word glow appears
on my page first
I write it mindlessly
breathe it fully
what’s more beautiful
than to glow

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When did my one word wishes
Become pages of prayers
Soliloquy by the stream
Voice becomes rivulet
Becomes voice again
The only place
I can verbalize

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Where colors
are conscious
inner to outer
to inner
imaginings
of truth
never to be
discovered
but to be painted
again and
again

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The sunrise wraps
round and round
the dust of Sahara
storms its soul
across space
feeds the forests
sustains the sea
quells the colors
chokes the humans
knows just what to do

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Sweet humans, may we join our hearts, pool our love and wash away these monsters.

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The great switch
of speaker and cipher
chasing spirit
to its inimitable
origins
where only
breath
can breathe

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