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An Ode to Dwelling
05:56
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I wake up to the sun burning through the dream
That fogs the land this morning
And the wind breathes easy
Out the door, I head to the stream
Where our young girls like to laugh, chase, and tease
The ravens make their way south over land of plenty
Autumn brushes this meadow gently
Awakened from the summer dream, the land shakes the leaves
And the raven flies to land and folk that my eyes will never see
My heart beats with this dwelling
Not one thought lies beyond the hedge
For all want and need bloom within these
Naturally
Though what blooms may rot
Must be culled or depart
To mend the land's heart
Now the time has come to reap for the gathering
And thus the raven flies to land and folk that my eyes will never see
My heart beats with this dwelling
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Wyrdful Odyssey
03:34
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Farewells given through smiles and hands
Departing folk and land
A time for silence beckons me to venture a few leagues
Into the woods lines a path
For this wyrdful odyssey
This wild hearth has led me to sense and such stillness
To nurture the gift
A hundred suns, a hundred moons
Have rose above my solitude
And the deer and foxes have become acquainted with me
Without a thought, I can sense what is empathy
This wild hearth has led me to sense and such stillness
To nurture the gift
Soon I will return
Attuned with the earth
To wax and wane
For this is the way
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Hymn Within
04:53
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Immediately we find everything that lies behind
Never spoken or heard
In a silent, shining hymn of empathy within
Sung through sensitive stares
Nothing more sincere, nothing more clear
Broken or pure, I know yours
An open window letting in all the unspoken winds
Between you and me
With words we deceive a fragile faculty
Masking our lives
You can try to look away but we always dilate
When all is brought to light
Nothing more sincere, nothing more clear
Broken or pure, I know yours
For when we see, there is nothing we can hide
From the moment in the light of our eyes
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Mystery Be
02:54
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Wonder as far as you wander
Mull nothing in mind your hands can’t bear
Why we dwell, what we breathe
Silence after the knell
Let the mystery be
No secret teachings
Bother not with words
Breathe with empathy
And you will come to find
All their mysteries are just colors to the blind
At times we cleanse and aid
Others we cull
No moment the same
To live life is to sense
And with this, we be with the mystery
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Dawn to Dusk to Dawn
04:22
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On my back in the meadow the wind brushes the field
Whisking fallen leaves and whispering through old trees
One moment flowing into the next then along with the rest
Bound to the good and the rotten as the moment would have it
From dawn to dusk to dawn time always follows me
Not a moment to spare always in it here or there
The past is the past yet it lingers right behind me
But I must go on
On and on and on
Until my time is gone
Loss of love and loved ones lost the tender heart sinks
Bitter winters kill until the flourishing of spring
Yet the moment holds us no matter how great or grim
And so we are left in the moment to make the best of what is
From dawn to dusk to dawn time always follows me
Not a moment to spare always in it here or there
The past is the past yet it lingers right behind me
So I go on
On and on and on
Until my time is gone
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The Gathering
03:07
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Axe to the tree with merry humming
Once again, heralding Winter’s breath
At dusk we light a great hearth
Gather ‘round for peace and plenty
Remembering those who dwelled
Folk of old and the gatherings they shared
With hope for the sun to rise high
Warm enough to bloom new life
Young grow old and breed
Sow to reap for another gathering
Through feast and fire, hand in hand
Our way is of the land
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Song & Silence
03:19
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In all times
In rest, work, and play
No longer here when words take us away
Dividing all through fable and myth
With iron fists, the breath of life gasping in a death grip
Our natural place among life and land
Through song and silence there is balance
For we know to only speak of simple things
'Cause where language lies
Our connection dies
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Mote in the Wind
03:32
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We flux from dust to dust
Yet rotten minds and tongues
Try to seize all the moment brings
Then fall to their folly
Like a mote in the wind
Drifting with the moment
We must go where the wind blows
So don't worry
Just be
Don't tease this mystery
You'll be anything but being
Don't try to tame the wind
As specks in a cosmic fabric
We're merely motes in the wind
Drifting with the moment
We drift until death
But that's the journey of being
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