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Raven's Heartsong paperback book

    Raven's Song (The Poem)

    Raven soared high above the earth

    Below, as far as the eye could see, was a large emptiness

    A tear formed in her eye and fell down

    Where her water touched, the earth sighed

    Raven cried out for a missingness

    Where her voice touched, the wind answered

    She circled around the missingness and landed on a rock

    Rock held her up and her feet moaned

    What rock held, became stone

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    Stone took Raven’s saddening and wrapped herself around it

    She wrapped herself around it and then breathed it out

    The saddening took flight and flew above the ruined ground

    It flew as far as the eye could see

    It flew up beyond the sky and touched cloud

    What it touched, touched back

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    Cloud took Raven‘s saddening and rocked it gently

    The saddening remembered comfort

    What saddening remembered, it became

    The wind took comfort and blew on its face

    The saddening remembered caressing

    What the caressing remembered was forgotteness

    Sky took forgottenness and wrapped itself around it

    Forgottenness remembered being loved

    What forgottenness remembered, it became

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    Being loved remembered itself

    What being loved remembered, it became

    Being loved caressed the wind and wind remembered loving

    What wind touched, loving wrapped itself around

    What loving touched, touched back

    Loving remembered alivening and touched the broken ground

    Wherever alivening touched, it touched back

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    The alivening touched water and water felt renewed

    Whatever alivening touched, it touched back

    Alivening touched tree and its branches felt renewing

    Tree touched Raven and she began to sing

    Whatever Raven's song touched, for givingness touched back

    Whatever for givingness touched, became beauty full

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    Raven sang and sang

    She sang inside her own alivening

    She sang inside her beauty full

    She sang inside her for givingness

    She sang inside her lovingness

    She sang inside her renewingness

    She sang and sang and then fell asleep

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    In her dreamingness, she flew high above the earth

    She flew farther than the eye could see

    She flew beyond the beyond

    She flew beyond a thingness

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    And when Raven came back, she was full of Light

    Beyond a thingness took her Light and spread it

    Far beyond the beyond and below the down under

    Whatever her Light touched, became enlivening

    Whatever enlivening touched, touched back 

    Trees took her Aliveness and shared it

    With all the Earth and each other

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    Whatever Aliveness touched, became itself

    Embodied on the Earth

    © Teresa Marie Tipton, 2011 

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