The Beach: Dependence, and Dolphins
human armchairs, loving familySensible sentences can't convey how it was to be trapped in a house of stairs with no railings, on the beach impossible to access without help, ocean waves subsumed by human construction.
And yet, with help, an experience sublime.
So, a poem. What is a poem? What is life?
Trapped in a house of obstacles,
ocean sings my body as I sit on the deck,
hoping for help.
The kitchen lives above the spiral stairs with no rails.
The living room with the view joins the kitchen,
excluding me.
Once a day I crawl up the spiral to sit uncomfortably with family.
They eat and talk, ask me kind questions.
I panic as I chew, seeing a friendly expectant look.
Will I get to swallow this bite or should I park it now in my cheek?
Quick! Think of a tweet short enough to utter with my limited breath,
clever enough to remind everyone I am still entertaining.
The moment passes, tweet wasted, still ringing in my mind.
Once a day I scootch down the giant other stairs with no rails,
wobble on my sticks down the walkway
between two houses in cacophonous construction
determined to overcome the sound of waves.
Finally down the stairs to the beach,
Finally, a railing.
Gripping gratefully I approach my love, my life.
Take me and I will take you.
In the sand my feet wake up flickering neurons.
Very near the water I sit, beg her to come closer.
She does, a rough lover, throwing her power
into my yearning spine.
Now I want to live. I want to live. Please let me live.
On our last day two dolphins arrive
exactly at my gaze and dance with me.
Two young lovers, my child and her beloved,
frolic as I say farewell.
August 27, 2021
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my Coyote Windwalker sister sent me this:
Dolphin Power Animal : Symbol Of Breath Of Life, Love, Balance and Community - by Ina Woolcott
Dolphins are connected with the power of breath and with emotional release, which are also both deeply connected. One of the most important factors in spiritual growth is to give ourselves the freedom of full experiencing our feelings and emotions.
If Dolphin swims into your life, she is asking you to relish water both physically and mentally, swimming freely and going along with your natural feelings. She is showing you how to enter the waters of life, and then with breath and sound, call forth what you most need or desire.
Dolphins have a wise, innocent, purity of being which reaches out to our inner nature. Follow their lead and open yourself to the energy of love, harmony and balance. Express your inner truth, be true to yourself. follow your inner joy. Dolphin is asking you to go back to your roots, to the depths of your being and rediscover the Love that you truly are.