Longette Lite for Gaia, Earth Mother – Terra Firma, Starbase, Home, Provider of All, Ground of the Form Realm, Nurturer, Terrifier, Shelter, Interlocutor

A collaboration by Jessica Perini, Karuna Mistry and Catherin J Pascal Dunk¹

Did you ever notice, in the aftermath, there are two sides to every story?
Earth and sky, night and day, fire and ice, he’en and hell, yin : yang; being right, being wrong
Very wrong indeed, for the Goddess stirs in her chamber, cauldron causing worry
It is a grand wonder, a majestic fury, to rebalance cosmic order

Magnetism shifts, deep –– compasses spin like never before, while the poles flipflop
Aurora storms thrash the skies with unimagined beauty –– at equator, tropics
Melting ice deepens the oceans, and Noah’s not coming –– Musk takes a monied few but
After take-off a huge solar flare plummets them seaward. Our Great White Hope is junk

Tinkering, as we’ve done, with Gaia’s might –– stomping on meadows, spoiling her seas ––
Everything we did to destroy her, this terra firma shaking with seismic blasts!
Reticent rascals we’ve become, yet our future rests on her Earth Shoulders’ balance…
Resurrection time –– resuscitate, revive, awake our dormant links with Mother
Again cleave to her bosom, late in the day. We dare to ask –– is it possible?

Gaia flashes miracles, firebombs Fierce energy: Catch her hope, spread it like wildfire
Apples bend limbs, hoverflies hatch, luminescent life emerges from rich, deep darkness
In essence, life, from her saintly brush, sacred, brutal; scopes all hope in our presence
All encompassing, to breathe, exhale as rain, imbibe as grass, imbue as holy

Miracle on miracle, grace on grace, from ocean floor deep, to the light surface 
Algae, seaweed, shark, every sentient thing –– in the mean, the median, everything –– 
Ours to enjoy, ours to cherish –– fall on knees to worship; preserve, protect, Love; to
All creation –– let us bear witness –– let us have eyes to see, a mind that receives

1. Jessica Perini wrote stanzas 4 and 5, minus one line; Karuna Mistry came up with the idea, wrote stanza 1 and part of stanza 3, Catherin wrote the title, stanza 2, part of stanza 3, one line of stanza 5 and edited the whole. Image from Pexels Free Photos. ↩︎