Poem – WALKING THE LABYRINTH WITH THE WHOLE CREATION

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dunkeld grampians
By Rev John Cranmer

Here is a walking the Dunkeld Labyrinth
with the whole Creation
context by mountain sun sky trees
a white-blueness — a multi-variant-greenness
a red-tinged-brownness
mirrored-together in gently breeze-blown water
adding its playful sparkle to the day

Look in this labyrinth-space
for signs of the dynamically-actionable world
to which we belong and interchange being

Silver snail-paths encouraged by yesterday’s rain
slithering their labyrinth — discovering what???
their endings??? — their beginnings???

Here then are ants running their path
with intensity and group-passion
they too have their place in discovering their centre
essentially sharing an edge
a periphery in their utilitarian journeyings

And then the small grass-signs
emerging tentatively from soil-pockets
within these crafted-stone-presences
they too add their aliveness

Here also are tangible-signs of bird-presence
(Hmmm??? guano of distiinctive-texture)
telling of visitation by these diverse species
in their life–questing

And So???
We would come with you!!,
We would join you in your delving of wetland-edges
We would join you in the magpie-flight
to the red-gum-leaf-canopy
We would join you flying the eagle-thermals
around this craggy-mountain
with a very-abrupt prosaic settler-name

Rev John Cranmer has been a minister for various congregations in the Outer-Eastern Melbourne region. He was secretary for the Yarra Yarra Presbytery for a number of years and is a member of the Montrose and Boronia congregations.

Image modified from Pedro Marques via Flickr. 

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