stand with your lover on the ending earth

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stand with your lover on the ending earth- 

and while a(huge which by which huger than
huge)whoing sea leaps to greenly hurl snow

suppose we could not love,dear;imagine

ourselves like living neither nor dead these
(or many thousand hearts which don't and dream
or many million minds which sleep and move)
blind sands,at pitiless the mercy of

time time time time time 

-how fortunate are you and i,whose home
is timelessness:we who have wandered down
from fragrant mountains of eternal now

to frolic in such mysteries as birth
and death a day(or maybe even less)


–E. E. Cummings

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earth song

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Listen to things more often than beings.
Hear the voice of the fire, hear the voice of the water,
 

Listen in the wind to the sighing of the bush:
This is the ancestors breathing.
 

Those who are dead are never gone;
The dead are not down in the earth:
 

They are in the trembling of the trees,
In the groaning of the woods,
 

In the water that runs, in the water that sleeps,
They are in the hut, they are in the crowd.
 

Those who are dead are not ever gone;
They are in the woman's breast, they are in the wailing of a child,
 

They are in the burning log and in the moaning rock.
They are in the weeping grasses, in the forest and the home.
 

Listen to things more often than beings.
Hear the voice of fire, hear the voice of water.
 

Listen in the wind to the sighing of the bush.
This is the ancestors breathing.


–Traditional Senegal

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all for you

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Before the final curtain goes down
On my life,
I shall say to my Mother-Earth,
“My gratitude-heart is all for you,
All for you."

–Sri Chinmoy

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