maker or shaker or breaker
in the head?
out of dread?
under the bed?
in dreams?
or as it seems
sometimes
what begs us
to reveal
and steal
to prove real?
PRAYER OF RECOGNITION
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Great watcher
Bringer and keeper
Namer and appointer
Good father
True mother
In the ever curling flame of our longing
Your abundance is presented and made new
In the combing of your will
We take riches from the air
Our eyes attend a harvest that is yet to be sown
Each to each we are like the promise of a greatness
out of dreams
Who will not turn to our singing?
Your glee is the motion of the world’s accord
Swallowed we are sharers in the perfect night
your being’s rise
Each to each we are like the shining of a treasure
that is near
Who will not stay for our caress?
PRAYER FOR MIDNIGHT VIGIL
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In this moonlight
The serpent and the tiger retreat from their passion
LADY you are breathing
They are we the catcher and the beaten your foundlings
Consent to our posing
IIn this moonlight we will make ourselves you--
quick the thread
easy the toil
sure the drop
through the bottomless coil
your being’s face made still in our craving
PRAYER OF RECOGNITION II
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Great Watcher
Lord Lady/Lady Lord
of places and time
of meanings and deeds
of cycles and connections
of pathways and endings
of certainties and retreats
of visions and alarms
Once again I take from the unsought
your claims on me
Hounded to collect what is real I subdue the ill-made
without effort
Unguarded amidst fury I am instructed in purpose
by the acts of existence
Life raises life again through my groping
out of joy
PRAYER BEFORE DANCE
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Ah glory
Yes your eyes are with me now
I give to be taken
Come stay with me
The arrow’s snapped What loss is not forgive now?
In chaos lies the blessing of the seeker’s way
YOU ARE THE HOLD IN THE GUSHING FOUNT
Ah yes
Your eyes are moving now
I CLASP TO BE FREE
PRAYER OF RECOGNITION III
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Sleep LORD
LADY your endurance is our
only hope and spur
THE QUEST REMAINS
The shield and yoke are powder on your skin
CLEANSE IN THE BREEZE
The whirl affords a place for the dreamer
SLEEP LORD!
Rest in your haven
Wake as one with song
of your birthing
PRAYER FOR THE DANCING MOMENT
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Keep pace MADAM SIR
The blanket fills
The arbitrary loft entices and preserves
the maker’s find
Ghosts we are mistress brother
Filaments and sediment
Passengers abandoned to our working
Jump free!
The push that guides suffices for its ends
ASHES ETCHINGS CHAMBERS BRIDGES we are lady king
play well!
PRAYER OF RECOGNITION IV
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Praise then the voice that measures circumstance
through us in us
That weds the moment by our pressing to receive
be filled
We the instruments consigning to our rhythm rhythm’s source
Our openness the yield that clusters might in time
PRAISE THEN THE VOICE the might of all
IN US THROUGH US the word
PRAYER AT DANCING’S END
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See us in the moment LADY
in the betweeness of ordainment and the artful catch
of hope
We whimper
We exhort
We bow at last
COVER US IN THE CHILL NIGHT OF WAITING
We are enveloped one by one
each alone drifting from ourselves
our places best constructed to endure
be cherished IN YOUR NAME
SEE US!
YOU our luck and power
HIDDEN
REAL
CONTENDING
even in the silence
that emerges out of darkness
without plan
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