Now We Are Like Starlight Waiting For Darkness
Now We Are Like Starlight Waiting For Darkness
“Primordial Sky” Bardic Poetry by Joseph S. Plum
Welcome:
Greetings and welcome to American Bardic Poet.
“Primordial Sky”
I would say the lines from this poem when I was on my world journey and would travel far away from my homeland of rural Iowa.
“now we are like islands / surrounded by oceans / now we are like clouds / climbing out of the sea”
It helped me to connect with the ocean lands where I landed, adrift, and it helped me reach back home to Iowa and the poet when I needed that feeling of rootedness.
Good journey,
(The poet’s daughter.)
primordial sky
soft are the steps
of the life force ascending
into the twilight vapors
of a primordial sky
where broken by increments
into constricted potential
long ago love in the ancient ways
stopped flower and gave
the rest of eternity the time
to pass us by.
now we are like islands
surrounded by oceans
now we are like clouds
climbing out of the sea
now we are like starlight
waiting for darkness
holding to a power in our hearts
that can set this world free
look to the landscape
for a view in the morning
gaze into the eyes
of this earth at your feet
carry the moment
like a child who is singing
alive with feeling
so that tomorrow can be.
what more could we need
to be complete?
Read about the poet and the bees here.
Read my post regarding punctuation and editing of the poems here.
Read the poem, “the sun has traveled well” 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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