What If

Wendy Robertson Fyfe

                     Orion, from Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland/Alba, November 2023 

The poem published below here to celebrate and praise this Earth Day emerged from an evening Sustainability group we went to one evening a number of years ago. We found ourselves experiencing quite a transactional, surface way of doing, of action; not, we may add, that we were necessarily helpful at that time with how to articulate. People obviously cared deeply with lots of action and feeling inspired; people with whom these times truly matter and obviously wanting to make a difference; indeed, do… all/and.

This poem came spilling out almost in one breath upon arriving home that night.

What If

we remember the depth

of what it means to be human;

enter a portal

to stars

and earth’s core;

converse with trees and seas

imagine into sunbeams and streams

be dreamt into mountain and stag.

What if

we remember beauty,

our own and Others;

singing them by their own true names

and making a pilgrimage to remember our own;

a name given before birth,

remembered by the Others

such as soil and the milky way

in living image, symbol, metaphor, and myth;

a name not invited

by this current industrial extraction culture

where forests scream with the voices of animals burning

and whales swallow plastic as they feed;

swim off-course due to human created noise and greed

from the great forgetting and the great longing.

What if

we live singing our own true name

with all beings,

earth-centred.

What if

we live from our unique place in the community of Allbeings,

singing our note with the cosmic symphony:

with iron atoms created from nebula collisions

   -did you know there is one atom of iron in every human heart?-

with cyanobacteria creating the ozone over millions of years,

and painted lady butterflies pilgrimaging over generations;

each surrendering to Mystery’s love call, a different kind of Gravity.

What if

with that very note a heartcrack grief

opens us to The Holy

remembering love divine

in marrow married in our bones

in animate ozone offering breath

in sweet-scented wild mint meadows

in tears nourishing flower, hummingbird to nectar,

in moonblood to earth and water,

in sacred sage offerings.

What if

we remember praise, prayer

and celebration;

in so doing

makes all the difference

with Allbeings then, now and to come.

It is so.

Wendy Robertson Fyfe

                                                                                              Glencoe, Scotland/Alba

For your information: There is current still availability on the Celtic Ceremonial Fast next month. To join us you can see further information on Substack/previous mailing. The Celtic Ceremonial Fast is a beauty way of deepening into ‘What If …” “… to enter a portal … pilgrimaging to remembering your own name … a name given before birth … remembered by the Others … ” Message Wendy for conversation/application.

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Earthsong blessings ~

Wendy

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