So the evidence that the gods support this Inner Eastertide work (work being efforts of willed attention and activity toward a desired result and the development of new knowledge, new skills and new organs of perception) was an email that led to a link that led to a link that referenced this poem.
This poem demonstrates a courageous vulnerability, a courageous self-declaration, and a real kiss between the macrocosm and the microcosm, between the universal I and the individual I.
The Delight Song of Tsoai-Talee
I am a feather on the bright sky
I am the blue horse that runs in the plain
I am the fish that rolls, shining, in the water
I am the shadow that follows a child
I am the evening light, the lustre of meadows
I am an eagle playing with the wind
I am a cluster of bright beads
I am the farthest star
I am the cold of the dawn
I am the roaring of the rain
I am the glitter on the crust of the snow
I am the long track of the moon in a lake
I am a flame of four colors
I am a deer standing away in the dusk
I am a field of sumac and pomme blanche
I am an angle of geese in the winter sky
I am the hunger of a young wolf
I am the whole dream of these things
You see, I am alive, I am alive
I stand in good relation to the Gods
I stand in good relation to the earth
I stand in good relation to everything that is beautiful…
You see, I am alive, I am alive
Navarre Scott Momaday
There are 22 declarations that begin with “I am” in this poem. And they all go beyond the ordinary! The declarations demand you forget yourself, you listen openly to the poet and you empathize with his feelings. Through empathic and poetic listening, you find a new sense of life, of meaning, of the poet and of yourself.
Before reading further, I suggest you return to the poem and speak it out loud twice. Once to hear the poet and once to hear yourself. How does it feel to speak these words, to say “I am…” over and over again? How does it feel to say “I stand in good relation to…”?
Whose declarations of “I am” do you embrace with your sacred listening?
Sacred conversations are filled with courage. Like other acts of courage, sometimes they just happen through grace. I want them to happen through intention. If we intend to have sacred conversations, we will have more of them. Sacred conversations create a better world.
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