Earth Soul

I lay down on the ground

To feel the soil beneath my feet

To connect with the Earth,

The stones and pebbles

To feel the land, 

I crunch its dirt in my hand

I admire the sunflowers reaching

for the Western Sun

The ephemeral golden glow

I pick up a few acorns

From the pin oak 

A reminder of nature's fruit

There is music in the wind

A cheer in the silence

The sparrow hawk pierces the sky

I sit up

I wander over to the magnolia tree

She gives off life, the birds love her

When in bloom, the bees devour her too

I light a candle

And meditate

and listen to silence

And think of people who are hurting

It seems so many of my loved ones

have hurting hearts, my father-in-law

suffered a heart attack and recovered from

open heart surgery at my house, I 

was the nurse at his side.

Everyone is facing mortality.

How tragic, we are born,

we live, we love, we laugh, we cry

and then we die

To return to the earth

Our final coalesce with nature

the land below my feet

--Michael Hooper
Nov 27, 2018

Revised 

Sept 7, 2022