"I'M NOT AFRAID OF LOVE/OR ITS CONSEQUENCE OF LIGHT" - POEM SEVEN FOR APRIL'S POEM A DAY

I’m not afraid of love/or its consequence of light

fr. ‘The Creation Story’ Joy Harjo in “How we became Human - New and Selected Poems: 1975-2001"”

or water, with its myriad rainbows formed

in the far away days of creation, when stars

blown across the universe from distant shores

became canoes our people would paddle in as

they turned from stars into light, from light

into dark, water into stones, became rock pools

that the frightened or lame, the old, or bewildered

those with no name who came in their millions

like the milky way crossing the sky each night

in the slow circling of buffalo-fire, the dropping

of sky onto earth, silently as an owl brushes

cottonwood leaves, shivering beneath

dark water, a pool for the bathing of wounds,

a place where healing of the spirit can begin.

- with thanks to Joy Harjo, whose poems and stories are a never-failing source of inspiration and joy
- all photos on my blog have been taken by me, copyright Geraldine Green