TO BE OF THE EARTH John Soos

To be of the Earth is to know:
the restlessness of being a seed
the darkness of being planted
the struggle towards the light
the pain of growth into the light
the joy of bursting and bearing fruit
the love of being food for someone
the scattering of your seeds
the decay of the seasons
the mystery of death
and the miracle of birth.

LET THE WATERS, WHO ARE GODDESSES, HELP ME..Hindu Prayer

They who have the ocean as their eldest
Flow out of the sea, purifying themselves, never resting.
Indra, the bull with the thunderbolt, opened a way for them, 
let the waters, who are  goddesses, help me here now.

The waters of the sky or those that flow,
those that are dug out or those that arise by themselves,
those pure and clear waters  that seek the ocean as their goal....
let the waters, who are goddesses, help me here now.

Those in whose midst King Varuna moves,
looking down upon the truth and flasehood of people,
those pure and clear waters that drip honey.....
let the waters, who are goddesses, help me here now.

Those among whom King Varuna, and Soma, and all gods
drink in ecstasy the exhilarating nourishment,
those into whom Agni Of-all-men entered.....
let the waters, who are goddesses, help me now. 

 

SUMMONING THE CLOUD PEOPLE Sia Indian Prayer

White floating clouds,
Clouds like the plains,
Come and water the earth.
Sun embrace the earth
that she may be fruitful.
Moon, lion of the north,
Bear of the west, 
Badger of the south,
Wolf of the east,
Eagle of the heavens, 
Shrew of the earth, 
Elder war hero,
Intercede with the cloud people for us
That they may water the earth. 

 

LET THUNDER BE HEARD OVER THE EARTH Zuni Prayer

COVER MY EARTH MOTHER FOUR TIMES WITH MANY FLOWERS.
LET THE HEAVENS BE COVERED WITH BANKED UP CLOUDS.
LET THE EARTH BE COVERED WITH FOG, COVER THE EARTH WITH RAINS.
GREAT WATERS, RAINS, COVER THE EARTH.
LIGHTENING COVER THE EARTH.
LET THUNDER BE HEARD OVER THE EARTH, LET THUNDER BE HEARD.
LET THUNDER BE HEARD OVER THE SIX REGIONS OF THE EARTH.

 

IN ANOTHER WORLD by Li Po

 You ask
why I perch
on a jade green mountain?

I  laugh but say nothing
my heart 
free
like a peach blossom
in the flowing stream
going by
in the depths
in another world
not among men

 

LET LIFE BLOSSOM..assorted GATHAS

REMEMBER, IT IS FORBIDDEN TO LIVE IN A TOWN
WHICH HAS NO GARDEN OR GREENERY
 Kiddushin  4:12



HOLY PERSONS DRAW TO THEMSELVES ALL THAT IS EARTHLY
Hildegard of Bingen



LORD MAKE US MINDFUL OF THE LITTLE THINGS THAT GROW AND BLOSSOM
IN THESE DAYS TO MAKE THE WORLD BEAUTIFUL FOR US.
W.E.B. Du Bois


ALL ARE NOTHING BUT FLOWERS 
IN A FLOWERING UNIVERSE
Nakagawa Soen Roshi 

 

THE WINDS OF SPRING..Walt Franklin

Only the winds of spring

can open the anemone

wrote Pliny

Windflower

mayflower

nimbleweed

Anemone quinquefolia

the wind-god's

name in spring

Five white petals

three-part leaves----

the ancients picked them

chanting prayers

Help us

 protect these waters

these wild lands you open on

instill in us

the powers

to contain the ooze of mines

the excrement of need

Protect these

aquifers and springs

of highland rock

the breath of winds

we blossom by