circle of elders
that time
love took over the sky
miracles took hold in the heart
and seeds of joy
sprouted at just the right moment,
as we,
who feel sorrow and despair so deeply,
knew it would -
we'd stopped searching
where joy could not be found,
and took to the temple of our bodies,
where, within every cell,
and every blood-filled route
to the very heart of being,
the sacred gathers
like a circle of elders holding hands
and chanting the songs
of our salvation,
and our storied continuance.
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| Photo by the author |
Tammy Stone Takahashi is the author of Yoga Healing Love. A writer, poet, photographer and student of life. Her short stories and poems have been widely published and anthologized and she has worked on several anthologies as co-editor. Her published works include a book of photography, "Tag it! Toronto: A City's Imagination Revolution" (2009), and the poetry collections Formation: Along the Ganges and Back Again (2015), Little Poems for Big Seasons (2016) and Land, 2018. She is based in Canada and Japan, and can be found curled up with a good book, talking to trees or hand-sewing in her spare time. She invites you to see some of her recent photography here and to connect with her on her writer's page, twitter and her blog, There’s No War in World, here. Her latest poetry collection emerged during the 2020 pandemic and state of civil unrest. It is titled 110 Days of Hope and Peace.
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