The autumn winds dance
Their spell over earth and sky…
They call out a mad freedom:
Wild nature’s sanctuary
For a troubled humankind…
Awe filled majesty, the winds’ wild call
and cry…
Rhythm the planets’ eternal flight…
Haunting songs of remembrance,
The great mysteries…
Our loves slow unwinding:
Tapestries, the leaves tender falling away
Bough and branch in twisting descent…
The many rapturous songs
Wild nature echo and sigh
Across wilderness lands
Meditative worlds: water and sky
Fall days’ soft unwinding
Our lives brief unfolding
Windspell majesty, call and transfiguration
Songs of the glorious forest heights…
A sacred magic
Sweeping winds, mists and cry
Fall days’ soft unwinding
Our lives brief unfolding
Windspell majesty, call and transfiguration
Songs of the glorious forest heights…
A sacred magic
Sweeping winds, mists and cry
Whirlpools of light on an autumn day
Lives fully centred,
Mystic flames to lead
All the beauty, all the glory
This holy season…
BEV GORBET October 2020.
Bev Gorbet is a Toronto poet and retired school teacher. She has published several poems with the Retired Teachers Organization and most recently in “Literary Connection IV: Then and Now” (In Our Words Inc., 2019), edited by Cheryl Antao Xavier.
Nina Munteanu is a Canadian ecologist / limnologist and novelist. She is co-editor of Europa SF and currently teaches writing courses at George Brown College and the University of Toronto. Visit www.ninamunteanu.ca for the latest on her books. Nina’s bilingual “La natura dell’acqua / The Way of Water” was published by Mincione Edizioni in Rome. Her non-fiction book “Water Is…” by Pixl Press (Vancouver) was selected by Margaret Atwood in the New York Times ‘Year in Reading’ and was chosen as the 2017 Summer Read by Water Canada. Her novel “A Diary in the Age of Water” was released by Inanna Publications (Toronto) in June 2020.
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