(This is the updated version of SummerOM’s poem. I left both up to see which version is your favorite.)
Summer Dreams~Where Butterflies Sing
By SummerOM
In tribute to our GoldenGreenGoddessVisionary, Ellen Peterson, Beloved Happehatchee Center and all the inspired Artists, Dreamers, Guides, Mentors, Musicians, Poets, Teachers, StoryTellers, Singers, Shamans and especially ~to all the Children who come to play, bless and create this Sacred Space.
I am cradled in Ocean Dreams, soothed awake
~where I play, and sometimes pray with paint and brushes surrounded in wet, wild, windswept Valleys
that hug vaulted, majestic Mountains graced with
tall White Birch who anchor the Light and Energies in and around shaded Creeks, whispering Ferns, Devas, Gnomes,Fairies and fanciful, perfumed Forest Flowers
~where Butterflies sing.
I am birthed in Ocean Dreams, gently nursed awake
~on Crystal Rivers where precious Stones drum
melodic, passionate, poetic love songs to inspire magical new worlds rising above misty, purple snowcapped
Mountains in white-laced, pillowed waves blessed and
given as communion rejoicing to reseed a dew drenched,
sun shimmering Universe birthed on ever streaming Milky Way Moonbeams and magically carpeted Galaxies
of benevolent brother-sister Star Beings in joyful,
harmonic oneness with spirit filled Humanity
~where Butterflies sing.
I am caressed in Ocean Dreams, tenderly touched awake ~inside emerald green goddess Gardens grown
in sun-splashed, stained glassed windows framed as
radiant Shrines where Birds, Crickets, Frogs, Lizards, Owls and Snakes serenade and dance the music
of my soul and dreams awake while I swing snug in a
woven hammock cocoon hung between soft, fragrant
Breezes below sanctuary Choirs of tropical Palms, silken robed Bamboo monks and massive, moss laden Oaks chanting the hours beneath high masted clouds sailing across Tahitian blue Skies
~where Butterflies sing.
I am held in Ocean Dreams and hugged awake
~in muted and mellowed OM mantled mantras
spun silver and gold between
honey sweetened day dreams too
soon forgotten when I staged and played
my life along spinning, spiraling pathways through
hushed and haunted memories of darkened caverns
babbled and dabbled grey in secrets whispered in earthen
clay marrow and centuries of ancestral mind and bones
~where Butterflies sing.
I am floated in Ocean Dreams, graciously awakened
~among courageous Spirit Guides and
Dragonflies who journey beyond banished boundaries
of fear and mysterious nightmares witnessed as children while content to play in closed backyards or in high, nestled tree houses newborn in spring woods
tracked through familiar, remembered dreams,
memories and glimmerings strung on gossamer beaded,
rainbow ribboned, gentle make-believe, magical games,
exquisite, mystical songs and ecstatic, dizzying dances
~where Butterflies sing.
I am swimming in Ocean Dreams, splashed awake
~on high cabled, swinging, wood-bangled bridges
bounced and balanced by spirited noble Seekers who are never lost, but found in treasure mapped, multi-layered, lavishly draped landscapes of whirling, twirling Kaleidoscopes spinning round and round filled with
dancing Devas who dare to journey in and out beyond
time and space threaded through these gated,
goddess playtime portals between multidimensional worlds of a thousand thunderous, Tidal Moons
and sacred Shaman’s Dreams
~where Butterflies sing.
OceanMomma ~SummerOM
~WhiteWaveFlowing with Light
Spring 2009
~In Grace and Gratitude for my new Happehatchee home!
www.happehatcheecenter.org