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OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

0 posted 2015-02-02 02:21 AM

LET US UNITE AND SAVE THE WORLD, TOGETHER

https://soundcloud.com/diana-van-den-berg-2/let-us-unite-and-save-the

Saving or destroying the world
is a choice – a simple choice
for cynics and defeatists and cowards to mock
and for the brave and determined merely to do.

Let us dare to recognise the constant of change.
Let us dare to open our minds to it.
Let us dare to be different.
Let us dare to be mocked.
Let us dare to guide the lost.
Let us dare to fail and try again –
and again and again and again.
Let us know the triumph of failure
and the glory of repeated failures
for failure is merely the badge of attempt and determination,
an achievement of note
and without which we fade into nothing and die.

Let us dare to smile
through our tears
and face and conquer our fears
and look back and wonder
why we let them keep us prisoners.

Let us want, with united breath,
to save the world, one element, one baby step, at a time
and let us go ahead and do it.
Let us not wait until the well is dry
to learn the value of water.

Let us tread lightly and with compassion
on field and the hearts of foes.
Let us awaken in the seed of our beings
that which builds and nurtures and illuminates.
Let us use our skills and talents
to blend old wisdoms and modern living.

Let us cherish and honour the moral code
which bonds us, teaches us, protects us
limits us to that which is good for all.
Let us paint a wide-sky future
for a diverse but united world.

Let the wind and rain cleanse us of greed
and replace it with the exhilaration of giving.
Let us take from the earth and each other
that which is freely given and only what we need,
and let us return those gifts a thousandfold.
Let us remember we chose our leaders
and let us choose wisely those who truly lead.
Let us use our complaints to find solutions.

Let us clear the garbage from our minds
and fill them with forest-air.
Let us expose the delicious secrets
of harmony and balance
and savour them on our tongues
with exquisite delight.

Let us excite in each other
a desire to protect, nurture and revere, each day
at least one person, one animal, one plant, one idea, one beauty
and uncover one ugliness to expose the beauty underneath.
Let us look for a problem a day, to solve
in the pleasure of the path to unity.

Let us notice and relish
the microcosmic and macrocosmic
wonders of our miracle world
of multiple hidden simplicities
and intriguing complexities.

Let our spirits grow our spirituality
and harness them with power for progress.
Let them overflow their limits
and flood the earth with the growth and joy
that our planet offers, if only we accept them,
so that all beings can celebrate them together.

Let us do, say and think that which is positive and effective
for what purpose would any other actions, words and thoughts serve?

Let us embrace our differences
and use them to repair and strengthen
what we cannot ourselves -
and revel in our similarities
in song and dance
of body and mind.
Let us take the effort that comes from caring
and wrap it around the world in adoration.
Let us take the camaraderie we know
and leak it to a namaste, ubuntu world.

Let us invest in the youth, the spring of our world,
to blossom in their summer,
and consolidate in their autumn,
and pass on to earth’s progeny in their winter.

Let us grow humility
to drown our pride and egocentricity.
Let us stimulate our intellect
and explode in all, the joy of thought.

Let the buck stop with us.
The solution is as difficult as it is easy.

Are you in?

Owl

latearrival
Member Ascendant

since 2003-03-21

Posts 5499
Florida

1 posted 2015-02-02 10:15 AM

Oh dear Diana, how I wish we could roust the women who marched many years ago and made so many changes.Where are those women now? We need to read of their many exploits and follow suite. I wish I was near you so we could shout out those old chants and hold up the banners.A wonderful post dear lady. Enjoyed it very much. JO

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

2 posted 2015-02-02 10:47 AM

Oh, Martyjo! What a wonderful reply! Many smiles and many thanks!

secondhanddreampoet
Member Ascendant

since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

3 posted 2015-02-02 03:11 PM

amen !!

A very 'deep and effective' write!

I would add simply my version (re-write) of the Channing quote:

Love is the melody of the heart,
   the harmony of the spirit ...
    and the song of the universe

                   --- b. e. adams (2015)

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

4 posted 2015-02-02 03:18 PM

Thank you, Bruce.

Owl

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

5 posted 2015-02-02 08:53 PM

Sounds wonderful, Diana but I think we all need to be on the same page for this world to come to pass and right now things look a bit bleak.

Ida

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

6 posted 2015-02-03 01:13 AM

Thank you for your comment, Ida. However, the poem is intended as an invitation and encouragement for us all to be on the same page - and as I said it is as difficult as it is easy - and all it requires is for each individual to be in as I said in the last line, not to wait for the rest of the world to be in first.

Owl

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

7 posted 2015-02-17 11:22 PM

wonderful...james

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

8 posted 2015-02-18 03:24 AM

Thank you very much, James.

Owl

secondhanddreampoet
Member Ascendant

since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

9 posted 2015-02-20 10:34 AM

again I say ... excellent write!

perhaps our blind 'attachment' to the ego/'self-focus' and
(negative) afflictive emotions it creates, may be the ultimate
source of all of humanity's troubles and limitations.

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

10 posted 2015-02-20 05:56 PM

Thank you, again, Bruce. Yes, erhaps.

Owl

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