Rise Up Rooted

Sycamore III

get link Sycamore in Black and White ©2012 Bo Mackison

see url . . . if we surrendered
to earth’s intelligence
we could rise up rooted, like trees.

https://www.mreavoice.org/wh3w86t Instead we entangle ourselves
in knots of our own making
and struggle, lonely and confused.

source So, like children, we begin again
to learn from the things,
because they are in God’s heart;
they have never left him.

https://getdarker.com/editorial/articles/k1rl77k1f7e This is what the things can teach us:
to fall,
patiently to trust our heaviness.
Even a bird has to do that
before he can fly.

https://www.brigantesenglishwalks.com/wdjks6x -Rainer Maria Rilke from Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

https://www.mbtn.net/?p=wn0pq3s0q I traveled into the mountains this morning, and walked along the edge of Madera Creek. The creek was dry, or so I imagined, when I began my descent at 5,000 feet. But by the time I had walked a half mile, I noticed damp Sycamore leaves, recently shed from the overhanging trees and dropped into the creek bed.

https://www.yolascafe.com/lfk9w64r3 Another hundred yards and the creek pooled in deeper crevices. Dark and bubbly, it followed a circuitous route as it descended the mountain.

get link I watched the water swirling around large piles of leaves. Single leaves danced along, bobbing on the water’s surface. I listened to the creek’s song, low and splashing, accompanied by an occasional bird’s song.

https://mocicc.org/agricultura/wd8mw0v The sounds of life, the language of nature.

go to site As Rilke wrote, “if we surrendered to earth’s intelligence, we could rise up rooted, like trees.”

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enter site Bo Mackison is a photographer and the owner of Seeded Earth Studio LLC. She continues to explore some of her favorite places and read some of her favorite poets.