Sighed Earth's River
I heard a new term today,
slow sighed Earth's River,
"spiritual intelligence."
I have become flowingly familiar
with cognitive intelligence,
before that emotional intelligence,
before that contextual intelligence,
similar to climate intelligence
throughout life's tributaries,
branches
and root well-springs.
My waters do not claim these are strengths;
more familiar as effluent opportunities
for further flowing affluent redevelopment.
But,
just as I am not entirely clear
where emotional awareness ends
and environmental noticing begins,
so too,
where might Earth's physical context end
and sacred Spirit's awareness transcend signs
seen,
sighs slowly heard?
I wonder,
rooted in my ego-centering experience,
if feelings flow toward ego inside wet identity
as contextual warm intelligence
ebbs from eco-outside co-investment;
If eco-political context,
empowering and disempowering
natural flowing energies,
welcomes,
invites,
embraces,
baptizes with awe and wonder
spiritual intelligence of universal individuation,
river-bedded identity
co-arising heart-felt rhythms,
breath
surfing choices up and non-chosen down,
smiles clown
while frowns heavily crown
Polypathic signing language,
polyphonic rhythm,
polyculture flowing systems,
Analogical EarthNature
unveiling metaphoric Spirits,
Secular ecological purpose
compelling sacred theological meaning
Signing reasons,
sighing seasons
pushing up
and flowing down.
Copyright © Gerald Dillenbeck | Year Posted 2020
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