Earth Your Dancing Place

 

Beneath heaven's vault remember always walking through halls of cloud down aisles of sunlight

 

or through high hedges of the green rain walk in the world

 

highheeled with swirl of cape hand at the swordhilt of your pride

 

Keep a tall throat

Remain aghast at life

 

 

 

 

Enter each day as upon a stage lighted and waiting for your step

 

Crave upward as flame have keenness in the nostril Give your eyes to agony or rapture

 

Train your hands

as birds to be

brooding or nimble

 

 

 

Move your body as the horses sweeping on slender hooves over crag and prairie with fleeing manes and aloofness of their limbs

Take earth for your own large room and the floor of earth carpeted with sunlight

and hung round with silver wind for your dancing place.

~ May Swenson

 

 

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Music: Wonderful Tonight - Eric Clapton

Background by Heikki Luhtala