Sky and Earth in Rain — Four Poems

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Sky and Earth in Rain

Four Poems

By Jane Tawel

March 13, 2021

Poem One

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Sky’s brow sweats with labor;

the earth is replenished

with heaven’s pleasing perspiration.

Earth, in her turn, turns.

Round and round and round

flinging ocean, sea, and pond

back into Sky’s opened-mouth face.

Sky as Heaven, Earth as Gaia,

powerful in servitude to each other;

delighting in shared toiling.

Earth dances, opening herself up

to Sky’s rain and —

both, so in love!

Heaven and Gaia merge,

symbiotic in creation.

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Poem Two

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The blues of sky are borne-away

and seeming dead in grey hues,

mourning clouds as black as burial clothes,

the world looks up at the bereavement.