[Oe List ...] Apropos the Unknown

[Milan Hamilton]

Reading David's poem several times (and Linda wants to print it and thinks
it is right on for the "environment" of the "climate" work going on here in
Redlands), I for some unknown reason started spinning on the relationship
of our personal death in relation to the universe and nature, and the
memory came up of growing up in the midwest and observing and being a part
of the changing of the seasons, (the image of geese flying overhead). So
David does not need to take credit for the following. But it was inspired
by his able offering of yesterday. Milan H.

 *Preparations*

Preparing our bodies

For the great journey

Of our own personal death,

Can we pause, momentarily

To notice, oh so carefully

The miracle of breath?



Taking a moment

To acknowledge the wonder

In the passing by

Of geese flying northward

In the Spring, returning southward

In the fall?



The yin and yang of nature

Has been the way of it

For Aeons of earth time.

Comes the final preparation

For the great separation—

Breathe with it!



Milan Hamilton

June 15, 2022

On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 10:58 AM David Dunn via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
wrote:

> A poem
>
>
> The Unspoken Yes
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> What we can not see
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> makes our blood to flow,
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> our lungs to fill
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> and our bodies to breathe.
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> What we can not hear
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> lives in silence everywhere,
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> comforts us always
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> and saves our lives daily.
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> What we can not touch
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> is beyond all knowing,
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> but arises in our awareness
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> and seeks us before we ask.
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> With the eyes of a lover,
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> open, intense, insistent,
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> this Holy Mystery invites us
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> to meet in our yearning.
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> In such gifted times,
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> when darkness glows
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> and silence hums
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> the Unspoken Yes,
>
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> we begin to live again,
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> as at birth and death,
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> while the universe
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> watches itself expand.
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>
>
> David
>
>
> Sent from David’s iPhone
>
> On Jun 13, 2022, Jim  Wiegel wrote:
>
>
> The unknown is what is.  And to be frightened of it is what sends
> everybody scurrying around chasing dreams, illusions, wars, peace, love,
> hate, all that.  Unknown is what is.  Accept that it's unknown, and it's
> plain sailing.    John Lennon
>
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