Earth’s Gravity Said to the Moon
“Stay With Me” Bardic Poetry by Joseph S. Plum
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Greetings and welcome to American Bardic Poet.
“Stay With Me”
This week I share a poem I memorized early in life. The poet has traveled quite a bit. More than anyone else I know. There were times growing up (and in my adult life) when I didn’t hear from him or know where he was for months at a time. Or more. He was off in some distant unknown time and place accessing other realms. But I was still trying to function in my everyday life. I worried about my Dad. I just wanted him to come back and never leave again. I used this poem as a sort of prayer, to bring him back to me.
But that wasn’t his journey. His creative life has taken him all over the world and back. So has mine. I’m grateful for the paths we’ve shared along the way.
Good journey,
(The poet’s daughter.)
stay with me
stay with me
earth’s gravity said
to the moon
as the sun was
passing by
i’ll never leave
promised nighttime’s shadow
to the morning
as a bright new dawn
filled the sky
Read about the poet and the bees here.
Read my post regarding punctuation and editing of the poems here.
Read the poem “Wild Wisdom” and a short essay I wrote about the forest here.
This is a page from the book, I Believe in Seeds: Affirmations for Rewilding, made possible by a grant from the BeWildReWild Fund at Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation. This book combines my watercolor paintings with Dad’s poems, and gave me a chance to try something different with punctuation. Also, it was such a beautiful moment when Dad saw my paintings and realized his poems were part of his daughter’s artwork.
I’m grateful.
I’ll write more next week. Hope to see you again then. Please consider sharing this post with someone you think may be interested in Dad’s poetry.
🙏🏼 Thank you for gathering here. May it be a blessing. 🙏🏼
About the Poet
Joseph S. Plum is a poet in the bardic tradition. He lives off-grid in rural Iowa and composes his unique chant-like oral poetry for fascinated audiences around the world. Joe has over 16 hours of oral poetry memorized in his head. He pulls from this collection of rhyming lines to compose poems according to the energy of the audience listening. Joe does all of this without writing the poems down on paper or holding any notes.
Joe’s daughter, Emily Lupita, typed up his poems over the years and launched Dreaming Deer Press to publish his work. He now has nine poetry books for sale on Amazon that can be purchased on Joe’s website - here.
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