Good morning…
This is my 18th day of a Pilgrimage that is not a very traditional pilgrimage. I have never done a pilgrimage so how it goes has no tradition or plan, or Path other than I am paying attention to my days, my feelings, my thoughts with the intention of Change and Transformation. The below quotes are shared from the Priestess (that’s what I call her) that facilitates this Pilgrimage. This week is about ‘homescapes’ or ‘bodyscapes’. What I am particularly inspired by is. “Wander, there is not road, the way is made by walking.” I have taken this line and made it my own for todays poem.
“Pilgrimage takes us into what I call ‘homescapes,’ places where we feel an inner rootedness, where we know intuitively that even if we are in a strange, wild, and far-away place, we are home.
—Sarah York
Wanderer, your footsteps are
the road, and nothing more;
wanderer, there is no road,
the way is made by walking.
—Antonio Machado
Wander, there is not road,
the way is made by walking
there is no knowing what
lies beyond the turn
Or invites the fork to take
one way or the other
Is it moss or sand that
my feet lay each step on?
Will I grab a branch
to swing to another and
another dropping to the earth
in a tumble and roll
aching for the familiar
Paths I’ve treaded before?
There is not a road before me
But I see trees and blue sky
I hear the songs of birds
I smell the sweet breeze
of possibilities while I raise
my mind to open a path in
the tangle and twist of bush
stumbling face down on rock
and root crawling because I must
And I am up and walking
Walking in the pulse of life
that is my pulse, God’s pulse
Goddesses pulse, a dreamers
yearning, A pilgrim finding
Alone within everything and
everyone and not alone at all
Not a wanderer going somewhere
I am already there, I always have
been There…
What a beautiful day to walk
my Path
Very nice GG! Added to my day in a wonderful way.
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