Poem from Rachel: Divining the Divinity of Everything

When you were small, you knew...

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Thank you for being here.

Before the poem, I wanted to take a moment let you know that five new Prompt Journeys have been posted since I last emailed you. (I wanted to avoid inundating you with emails each time one was posted, so they have quietly appeared on my feed.) They await you, along with poetry and music to inspire you, should you ever desire to take a dive into your own creative expression in this way.  

I hope you are happy and well, and finding time to pause and breathe deeply now and then.

(It feels so vulnerable to share my poetry with you. I put a lot of pressure on myself. I want to show up in a good way. Perhaps you can relate.) 

Thank you for receiving my heart's transmission. I hope it might resonate with you.

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Divining the Divinity of Everything
By Rachel Kann

When you were small, 
you knew, 
 
before the realm 
of “civilized” man
got to you, 

you knew
 
the divinity of that which is divine—
the sacredness of what is sacred—

long before you’d ever heard those words,
before the inevitable indoctrination occurred—
 
with all your senses, 
you felt and received 
the interwoven consciousness 
of this 

wild and gracious 
and dangerous 
and glorious 
earth, 

its capriciousness 
and its unfathomable generosity. 
 
Before the concept of consciousness 
had ever arisen within you,
and then been given over 
as an attribute of man;
as an aspect of only-humans, 
with their libraries of hierarchies 
cataloguing all-that-is— 
what is 
in existence, 
 
as if is is not a verb,
 
as if existing were