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Apr 6, 2010

Vigil Where are you now,
with your palms together,
bowing,
your dark red robes
wrapping the wisdom
of a thousand years,
white knife peaks,
and over six thousand
monasteries?

Your home not your home
and yet your home always,
you wander,
you meditate,
you chant and pray;
you teach, you love,
or you stay
and must keep quiet.

Yet prayer flags still blow
in high Tibetan air,
prayer flags still blow
in the deep dark-eyed hearts
of your people.
There are places
the intruders,
the violators
cannot reach–
places alive with
the smiles and tears
of your lost land.

Red robed ones
with your calm eyes
upon the world,
you who pay homage
to the consciousness
in all things,
you who see far beyond
appearances:
you know past time,
you love past duality,
and yet you cry too.

The mountains of Tibet,
the vast plateaus and
green valleys,
the sky lakes and blue rivers,
the sons and daughters
of this sacred land
know and wait for you,
and for their time
within space and beyond
to be free

by Layne Russell 
http://candle4tibet.ning.com/

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Posted: Apr 6, 2010 6:28pm
Apr 16, 2009
I’m only a farmer.
.
I know the sun better than anyone,
and the soil, and the wind, and the rain.
I am the man who works with them, who loves them,
and sometimes fears them.
.
I’m only a farmer.
.
I am the sower of seeds. I am the tender of stock.
I am the reaper of harvest.
I am sweat, and tears, and pride.
.
I’m only a farmer.
.
I am the man who feeds the young, and the old,
the weak, and the strong.
I am the black earth of Spring, the green hills
of Summer, the harvest gold of Autumn,
And the cold white stillness of Winter.
.
I’m only a farmer.
.
I am warm memories of the past, the steely reality
of the present, and a hopeful dream of the future.
I am a optimist, a thinker, a watcher, And a doer.
.
I’m only a farmer.
.
I live in a complex world, made of simple things;
and they are my source of joy, and hope, and comfort.
I have walked the morning fogs.
I have paused for the summer song of the meadowlark
And I have savored the breeze off freshly cut hay.
I have paused, remembering, by the stream I knew as a boy.
I have felt the power of a thousand storms
And rejoiced in the fresh world left in their wake.
.
I’m only a farmer.
.
I am an accountant, a chemist, and a doctor. I am a midwife,
and a mechanic. I am a seller, a trader, and buyer.
I am husband, helper, and partner to my wife.
I am a father, comforter, and teacher to my children.
.
I’m only a farmer.
.
Not a man of riches, but a man of great wealth.
I have learned to treasure life and all things living.
To respect their maker and my own.
I am humbled by the earth’s bounty and awed by endless rebirth.
I am fascinated by the marvelous minutiae of my world
and enriched by their beauty.
.
I’m only a farmer.
.
If a man can be truly free,then I truly am.
The day, the week, the month
They have been entrusted to me. They are mine to spend.
They are mine to invest. They are mine to use wisely.
It is a solitary profession I have chosen;
Or, perhaps, that I have been chosen for.
A profession where there are no certainties.
Where no guarantees are granted,
No promises given, no excuses taken.
I have but one man to answer to, one man
to depend on, one man to confide in;
And in the quiet of the years, I have come to know him well.
.
I’m only a farmer.
.
I am perseverance, and creativity, and courage.
.
I’m only a farmer.
.
I am confidence, and ingenuity, and intelligence.
.
I’m only a farmer.
.
A seeker of excellence, and I will endure.
.
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