Jun 25, 2016 Free Verse, Original Poetry, The Daily Post
Oracle
©June25th, 2016
By VIjaya Sundaram
The waters will rise,
We shall rise with them.
And we shall sing
Riding the waves,
Which will pull us down
Down to the place whence
We emerged, gills and all.
And the fires will burn
And millions of years
Will flow by like plasma,
Engulfed in flame.
And everything will
Be a memory of a memory
To be puzzled over on the rocks
And the shores of Time.
And one day, a new being
Will emerge, water streaming
Off its form, steam rising,
A creature of light and air
And fire and water,
A creature barely touching
The earth, as it spirals shore-ward.
And this being will read
In our lost, bleached bones
A story, a history, a tragedy,
A comedy, a romance, a song,
And a prophecy.
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Jun 25, 2016 Daily Life
Been working for hours in the garden steadily for days and days. Yesterday, I spent FIVE hours, digging, weeding, watering, and planting – now, all my dreams are about plants, weeds, flowers and fragrant, damp earth. I love manual labour! (And the garden’s looking nice, although I have tons more work to do on the side and back. Lopped off many branches of random weed trees and bushes last week and earlier this week, and all I saw in my dreams were visions of overgrown backyard forests.
The wilderness wants to return, Climate Change, notwithstanding – at least, in these parts!
And I adore both a tamed garden and the unstoppable wilderness!