#606 - wilderness song

 

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606

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wilderness song

an umpteenth revision

 

let everything go wild today

 

sleep to dream

and

wake to play

 

let day be

where light falls

 

sing of a morning

first thing birds

come all a-flit, afoot

 

let everything go wild today

 

have pleasant wander with

let tangle

let away

 

time is all we take here

no one need remember

so let a world turn

take its round

 

vine to up

leaf to furl

 

let everything grow wild today

 

let things all be, abound

and creature it with them

 

feather it in branches

bud to flower

let fall

 

let to its own devices, thing

 

let dooms of labour all be done

 

sand in the between toes

winter in the socks

what fun!

 

and Christmas it with me here

with bunny eggs

and no one died

wherever it is you are from

 

burrow, hutch, nest

den, lair, lodge

 

let all go their wild way

 

take trees in the wisdom of up

uncut

nor are the clouds foregone

 

let the spirits call our names

and make our summons so

 

let everything go wild today

 

let everyone be welcome

turn kingdoms upside down

burn borders

 

and let the garden get away

let bush

let rain, sun fall

 

it’s all of us here for the conversation

 

please make yourself at home

 

in this world

that’s everywhere there is

and nowhere else to go

 

on tip toe stretch

and then on wing

 

receive the good things given

bring what’s yours to bring

 

tend all

and so be tended

let the song tell where

we’re from

and where there is go

 

let everything go wild today

 

so

let us dance

let’s sing

 

the light comes early now

 

sing of a morning

first birds

 

I, many, various

forgetting how

from whom to nowhere

 

they’ll say an age of me long since

and to the risen task – a fit?

 

the new – the undiscovered creature

comes up through branches of the dawn

 

all there for not remembering

never the words of the song

of mind aflit

afloat

 

my difference is to remember the dreaming

never what I’ve dreamt