[Oe List ...] Apropos the Unknown

[Lynda C]

Thank you, both, David and Milan!    Lynda C.

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Date: Wednesday, June 15, 2022 at 1:56 PM
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Cc: Milan Hamilton <mellowmilan2 at gmail.com>, OECommunity Community <oe at wedgeblade.net>
Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Apropos the Unknown

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<mailto:oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>> wrote:
A poem



The Unspoken Yes



What we can not see

makes our blood to flow,

our lungs to fill

and our bodies to breathe.



What we can not hear

lives in silence everywhere,

comforts us always

and saves our lives daily.



What we can not touch

is beyond all knowing,

but arises in our awareness

and seeks us before we ask.



With the eyes of a lover,

open, intense, insistent,

this Holy Mystery invites us

to meet in our yearning.



In such gifted times,

when darkness glows

and silence hums

the Unspoken Yes,



we begin to live again,

as at birth and death,

while the universe

watches itself expand.





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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