Spaceship Gaia

Self sustaining
Green and lush
Water retaining
Wind's whispered hush
Sweeping o'er the grasses
Waving the fields of wheat
As across the sun she passes
We must honor her in white wonder, complete

We are all members of Spaceship Gaia's crew
Spinning out in the vastness of space
One planet, the home of me, the home of you
This truth we must embrace

We are in this thing called life together
If she goes down, we will follow
The ship will sink, swallowed in the stormy weather
She dies..... as do our hopes of greeting tomorrow

So take your station, man your post
Take care of the place that you call home
We are being very rude to our gracious host
Keep it up, and we all die together,  alone
Accept the fact....we are all connected
by our Spaceship...we know the songs she's sung
Our mother we have cursed and rejected
Time to breathe new life into her lungs

Death bed miracles can be ours
CPR to the heart of our mama, betrayed
Are you ready to say goodbye to the stars?
Then reassess the decisions you have made

Gitche Gumee Warms....Slightly

The orb of warmth rises slowly over the little town

with the crooked streets

The ocean’s mighty scion

Warms, slightly

She wakes

Within in me
Welling up as desire deeply seeded

Standing on the icy shore

Of the lake

Named Gitche Gumee

My heartbeat matches the

Slaps of the frigid liquid

life hitting the stones and the sand below them

They’ve  been licked

Soft and round

By her relentless

bath

of the ages

The water freely flows over them

Smoothing the angles and edges

Like the tender skin of a child fragrant

From a day of play in the sun

The orb of warmth

Drum beats slowly

Gaia’s heartbeat vibrates

out across the great expanse

of this body of life flanked by

cliffs alive and rocky, rigid

yet moving in the deep wind

The sound waves venture out over the frozen frontier

Only to come in again

To the place

just before the toe

of my boot meets this mighty wet woman lake
I am en-vibed with her own deep burning desire
creating hot, moist steam as it meets
her
frozen
wisdom

The drum’s beat in tempo and intensity increases
as the steam settles and heats my soul

I hear her mighty voice
as

She says to me…

“Enter, step in…the one of harmony

Let me harmonize you

My dear kindred

Heart child

Let me lick your wounds

Soft and round.

Let me smooth the angles

And the edges”

As I pulled away from the allure of the
frozen waves..
drum in my hand

Song in my ears

Beauty restored to my soul

I caught the fragrance

Of my own skin...

It was the smell of

the tender skin of a child fragrant

from a day of play in the sun

The orb of warmth

Warmed me, slightly

Today

As I shared space with

The ocean’s mighty scion

And it was all I could have ever

needed and wanted

As I stood in the embrace of

The orb that warms...
slightly

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to the wind

I am Green
a name chosen
for myself
by myself
of myself
yet I am not defined
by a name
There is no definition to
speak of all I am
and I am 
Not

I am Harmony
I bring harmony
to those I encounter
it is, however
not all I am
and it is also
who I am not
I am harmonic...blending
as I bring together
the masses
I may blend in silence
or with laughter
or by holding you
and rocking your woes
away

I am Embra
The melding of my two favorite
names
To honor them
to keep the vibe of all they are
close
For a name does not define them
it never can
One can not label
their own flesh and blood
All they are is so much, always
All they are not
also a gift

Who are you?
Tell me, I want to know all 
you are
and all you are not
Share your labels with me
and then throw them to the wind
as I throw mine
and you and me will become
Us

The Isle of EverGreen

When I was in the process of changing my name, I was very close to picking the last name of Evergreen. Harmony Evergreen, sounds nice. In the interest of simplicity, I finally decided on Harmony Green. Now when I hear this song, it reminds me that a name does not defines us. Someone once said "a rose by any other name would smell as sweet"

Tribal cultures are/were comfortable with name changes at certain pinnacles or experiences in a lifetime. A person's name may change many times in the life cycle of a person.

My spiritual guides chose the name Harmony for me many, many years ago. It took me several years to grow into this name and as time moves along, I can see,  almost daily , why they chose it for me. It is a homage to all of us living in harmony with our mama earth and all who inhabit her in one way or another. Those that live on, in and around her. All life is connected and needs to live in harmony in order to flow properly.

I chose the last name of Green as an honoring to the heart chakra, the intention to be green and honoring to our planet and because it makes me think of plants, the most highly developed life here on planet Earth. Did you know that? Tis true, tis true! Vegetation is actually the most divine life we share the Earth with. If you need explanation, let me know!

I had one more decision to make. Did I want a middle name or not?
After some processing, I realized I did want to chose one more way to honor someone. I chose 2 someones....my daughter Emily and her son; my grandson, Brayden. I put the beginnings of each of their names together and created the middle name Embra.

I am Harmony Embra Green !

What name or names might you choose for yourself? It is an amazing journey one begins when pondering this question. May you find some answers on this quest of self!