Rising Women

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rising women, let it be known
out of their cages
into freedom they’ve flown
capture the essence of all they have been
recorded, experienced, all that they’ve seen
with strength and resolve to change the old ways
they’re gathering, sharing and counting the days
the days and the hours that it will take now to spread
from woman to woman, across the ground that we tread
from sister to sister, crossing oceans and plains
what are they sharing? what are the gains?
thru silence and stillness, often witnesses they’ve been
now they’re emerging, no longer unseen
they ready to hold hands creating a web
and we will all listen to what will be said
they know that the suffering, the suffering has grown
from controls, dominance, imbalances we’ve known
so to step into the light and see, be the change
will take every woman who’s no longer estranged
estranged from the future, the future that can be
where her children, grandchildren can truly be free
where life on this planet is honoured and kept
free from pollution and balance is reset
where the sharing of goods becomes local again
and healthcare and education are easy to attain
where beauty is enhanced on every inch of the Earth
where there is a total renewal, a total rebirth
women are rising for they always birth the new
and from heart to heart they are calling to you
gather the wisdom, the love that you’ve known
for those are the seeds that are about to be sown
gagi     01/10/15

Layers

Layers

To sit by a koi pond
In the stillness and silence
and simply observe
layers compliance

Between the eye that receives
and that which one sees
is an invisible layer
of the air and the breeze

Then the surface of the water
in stillness a mirror
sometimes a reflection
of only the seer

And when stillness is disrupted
the calm surface is corrupted
and all else obscured
Surface patterns have blurred

Once stillness is restored
the next layer is explored
Not so much invisible but clear
Thru its depths one can peer

There is movement and life
A changing scene that is rife
with koi and with greens
Plant life that teams

with stems and the leaves
that float to the surface
to roots and attachments
that anchor with purpose

And weaving amongst
a playground it seems
are the wandering koi
chasing their dreams

A layer below
obscuring all else
are the sands, mud and stones
bottom layers themselves

And layers below
one never will know
How many, how few?
If only one knew

For the layers go on
to Earth’s centre and then
count backwards thru layers
to Earth’s surface again

And returning once more
to the air and the breeze
and going beyond
to more layers that tease

Expanding and spiralling
Radiant connections
Layer upon layer
Creation’s perfections


gagi     11/02/14

For our Lives and the Earth’s

For our Lives and the Earth’s

a vital retraining
a time for reframing
what are we doing
to a world that’s ensuing

creating new ways
or pollution just stays
and accumulates more
than ever before

recycling, composting
our community is boasting
a model for others
our global sisters and brothers

and consciously buying
there’s no point in lying
we know what is best for
our lives and the Earth’s


gagi     03/29/14