Sacred Surfers from the Savage Garden

We waddle we paddle 

with comical ease

Watermoles digging

from steady earth to flowing brooks.

glowing in mysterious shades unseen

Bills purring, squeaking, cooing, growling

humble brown yet in shadow

purple, blue, green

we sing our wisdom.

four broad webbed feet

pushing us forward

thick tails like rudders 

steering us 

surely through eddies 

currents along the river.

Unique curious diplomats 

We invite you

to swim waking through

your dreams.

Listen, Learn, Work

Dreamsurfers

Bright eyes closed

sensing electric sparks of life

Grins wide

letting humor guide you in darkness

charming, disarming

to conceal secrets

like milk of amnesia

perhaps better kept

closer to the vest

Cuddly cute

best keep an eye 

on our boots though

one of us carries

 pain venomed daggers

that would drop you to your knees.

Only she will slumber so

curled upon the throne of 

egg bejeweled nest.

Transformation

Renewal

Seekers in murky waters

Leave no stone unturned

in your sacred quest

Accept all your diverse parts

Reject nothing, hide nothing

from yourself

Everything begins within

Wisdom, Love, Change, Fortune

Want to heal the world?

Start with you.

Adapt to your own potential.

Knowledge is power

which can mean the difference

between surviving and thriving

Diverse

Creative

Resilient

Mysterious puggle

Private Investigator

Sensing always 

more than meets the eye.

For those new to the game, each piece in the Singing series is inspired by a Teacher found in Nature; a star, stone, animal, plant etc that holds lessons of Wisdom for us. Can you guess who is singing today?

Temerarious Tempest Reader in a Teacup

Temerarious Tempest Reader in a Teacup

Clever Crocutas serving high tea and trading omens 

upon the shadowed ceiling of their oracular cave

Striped, spotted, earthy brown

Ferocious matriarchs, relentless Houdinis

never quite where or what you expect

Lunar priestesses, cloisonne pots steaming sigils 

from Serengeti to Caucasus

Leading cackling feliform carnivoran packs.

Turning surviving into thriving

the way high rollers turn a pittance 

into winner's stacks.

Roll them bones! 

Mama needs a new pair of shoes!

Set yourself free from fears. 

There is the cave that holds 

the treasure you seek.

Giggle, chuckle, fill nights with cocksure glee.

Howl with the absurd hilarity 

run mad as often as you please,

but do not faint, Fanny, 

Oscar, so wild, combing your manes!

It could all turn on a dime. 

Tails, you run!

Life is the grand game, 

yet no one gets out alive.

Master that throat chakra, folks!

Clarity in communication 

is worth more than being shy, quaint.

Nobody has time for that. 

Laughter reduces shadows.

Good medicine for everything 

except broken ribs.

Having some left at the end of the day

means there is still hope for tomorrow.

Laughter and tears

soap for the soul.

Moods are contagious.

Be courageous.

Stand in your truth.

Hunt diligently for the right words

rather than scavenge for what you can make use of 

just because it is laying close at hand, MacGyver.

Tough enough to laugh first at yourself, fool.

Consult the Clan.

Hear our concert.

Create your oasis.

Fierce bite protects loyal heart.

Ready your battle plans.

Lead from the center of the mud puddle

Shenzi, Banzai... Ed

Everything light and shadow touches

Crown your lunacy 

while shifting shape

on the crossroads of your desert

For those new to the game, each piece in the Singing series is inspired by a Teacher found in Nature; a star, stone, animal, plant etc that holds lessons of Wisdom for us. Can you guess who is singing today?

Hyenas have often gotten a bad reputation in folklore or symbolically, been cast as the villains, deceitful brutes or just dirty scavengers. In truth they more solidly represent the duality of nature, both worthy and brutal. Hyenas can hunt alone or in packs. They are capable of strategic thinking, fearless courage, great strength, resourceful, adaptable, resilient and yet all four species are most known for their barking which sounds so much like laughter. Hyena could represent fear, chaos, darkness, powers from beyond the void and the messengers that travel between carrying power, even death... and the laughter that exposes all those things, breaks their hold and dispels them, protection from all the evils that go bump in the night. 

Puirt à beul of the Maringouin

 Puirt à Beul of the Maringouin 

Whining hum

Here they come

Back again

Forever complaining

Incessant at the gate of every ear

since the dawn of time

226 million years

if it has been a minute, surely.

they come

as surely as winter thaws into spring

 

Oh yes go right ahead!

Help yourself

I see your narrow crystalline grin

revealing nary a jagged tooth

Butter wouldn't melt there!

Are you all world's worst come again?

Aedes, Culex, and Anopheles, oh my!

Click my ruby heels

Not saccharine little old you?

Something more savory?

Something with a little spice?

Bite down nevertheless

Dig deep, 

not to the bone for your savory fare

just beneath the skin is far enough

Needling everyone around you

Work them into a rash, a fever

Set the world abuzz!

Slaver, drool over your feast

Swamp angel, Nighthawk

Spreading plague

Sowing discontent

Breeding anger, lies, rumors, gossip, envy

Make them itch with malcontent

Derision dropping easier than blood

from another wayward prick

Rub everyone the wrong way

Perhaps turning even the air toxic around you

Dispersing along paths of least resistance

with hardly more than an errant slap

as a screening process 

to inoculate the masses

from the black vomit 

unrelenting scourge

of our droning 

repellant asses

Irritated?

Curse the day that ever we were born?

Think you are the first do you?

Let it go

All things pass eventually

even if they pass like hailstones

Even us, 

Passing through cycles

through lives, rooms, dreams, veils

Vectors unstudied yet

Interconnected

Valuable to the fabric of life

in the extremist of conditions

Delicate enough to carry

a spark of creation

spreading verdant life 

as easily as devastating disease

Balance in recycling motion

Yin Yang

Patience

The water's mirror will still once more

Reflect

Rise above

Resist

Persist

Examine

Transform as reason and season dictate

Be objective

Be present

Be here

Now

Sing in our ears

Hum along if you don't know the words

You are 

the very cure you seek

Physician heal thyself

Spread the cure

Save the World

For those new to the game, each piece in the Singing series is inspired by a Teacher found in Nature; a star, stone, animal, plant etc that holds lessons of Wisdom for us. Can you guess who is singing today?

p.s. whew! lol It has been a minute.  ;) just wanted to say, this is the first completely new Teacher poem I have managed since my mom passed. Like it or not lol I am pleased with this Shadow Teacher's song that has been humming in my ears a little louder every year since mom slipped the veil in 2018. more importantly to my heart, I know Mom would be so pleased and would laugh when I told her about this one. She always was so pleased, each and every time I had something to stick up on the fridge she carried around in her Mom heart since day one. I was so very lucky to have her. <3 Congratulations to Cathi on being the first to name this Creature Teacher!