Walking Together On An Ecospiritual Liberatory Journey
This was inspired by witnessing participants of our Writing Wild gathering do what we call a sense walk, where one is blindfolded and a partner guides them through experiencing the landscape through all their other senses. It’s a beautiful thing to see, no pun intended.
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Blind from their chrysalis
they take the first delicate steps
like new walkers of the dawn
in the bright meadow of life
a late winter curiosity guides them
with a friendly hand at their back
and butterfly voices
flit across their swallowtail innocence
as sand sift through
their blackberry bramble hands
like the grains of childhood time
falling upward into their truth
they kneel for a mugwort blessing
feathered across their faces
flowing with the emergence
of spring wings
-Ryan Van Lenning