By Kate Firth
you flew in on invisible wings
spirit-stealer, breath-taker
you circle in silence; you gather a storm
unseeable demon
you creep into my thinking
to infect me with dread: yet
here in my heart
I will meet and defeat you
for I am love
I have sky on my side, I have mist
I am mountain, oak-filled forest
I am moon and sun
I grow green shoots, ferns and conifer
I am sea and wave
I am love
deep in my weakness
I have found strength
though you will batter me
tonight I shall bend
like the willow
you may not stick your suckered cells
upon my mind; my thoughts
will thwart you
I am too supple for your claws
I am clouds you cannot grasp
I am light- fighter
blackbird-dawn song
I am bud-burst springtime
sunray, hope-beam-rainbow
I am love
A powerful manifesto; alive and validating. There is green spirit of freedom here!
Thank you!
-Robert Milby
New York, USA
“I am bud-burst springtime
sunray, hope-beam-rainbow”
This is so joyful, reminds me of Gerard Manley Hopkins