Showing posts with label Natalie Goldberg. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Natalie Goldberg. Show all posts

Saturday, May 22, 2010

From Taos to Gallup and Canyon de Chelly


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You still come to me like a fresh lover
Woman of brown and pale pink
I should have left everything for you
should have gone so deep into your heart
I'd get lost in yellow aspen leaves
stand on the straw of your autumn
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I should never have taken another lover
I should have walked your hills
till my soles burned
till the sky, that old dwarf,
opened its secrets
till someone stopped whispering your name 1,000 miles away
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~ Natalie Goldberg
painting, Abstract at Ghost Ranch,  by the author
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Into this world


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Let us die gracefully into this world
like a leaf pressed in stone
let us go quietly breathing our last breath
let  the sun continue to revolve in its great golden dance
let us leave it be as it is
and not hold on 
not even to the moon
tipped as it will be tonight 
and beckoning wildly in the sea
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~ Natalie Goldberg
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