Sunrise On The Sierras

The "Spirit of the Sierras" is the artwork of my "Faerie Bestest Friend," the very talented Katie Rosselle
who also owns Electric Lady's Tanning Salon on Kingsbury Grade, Stateline NV the # 1 tanning salon!

Magnificent Background Photo is Early Morning Wrights Lake, near Lake Tahoe
Ron and Patty Thomas
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Sunrise Over the Sierras
The wind whistling through the trees,
a stirring amidst the leaves,
growing in intensity, power.
Snapping twigs, accentuating,
It is the hour.

Salutations of the day approaching barefoot
along the hemline of the Sky
reaching out, up and down surrounding the Sierras
breathing in this, the Universal breath!

Fingering a xylophone of chimes, along the path,
sweet sound, all around
playing upon, within the wind, tenderly entwined.
Life!

Receiving, then believing,
wishes exhaled, expressed,
whispering along the limbs, trunks and stems,
trees bending, bowing, engulfing all of them.
Expelling life giving Oxygen!

Life is AWE! Life is breath!
Life giving air! Adrift yet caressing,
all of this, Existence.
No words ever rendered can truly define the spiritual realm.
Can hold its circumference, the mystery,
the boundless depth of feelings, flying, free
neither measured nor found,
Painted in those planes, Spirituality lives upon.

No! Living is defined, somewhere else in time,
within these unwritten lines, felt keenly
that which we can not see.
Even when its Essence is invisible to the eye,
every Being holds the key to unity!
Synchronicity!

Rhythm is its own rhyme,
humming, drumming, snapping, in time,
every living thing connected thus, inclined.
Nature bound within this, its spiritual song,
land, air and water, animal, fish, insect and man
stirring and stirred, embraced.
Rising up, rushing on, winding down,
music heralding a new day Sung by the Sierras,
heard here at dawn.
Brushing past, dancing along the unseen, the soul,
soil, spirits, flower, root and stem, breathing in
and through these mountains, her woods
where life has always understood we are ONE!
And of ONE Again!

Spirits rising, listening, hearing dawns sweet greeting,
Natures Spiritual Song, repeating once again,
We are One! We all belong!
The wedding of all life forms held, informed
by this universal breath consumed by ALL,
none are more and none are less, in all these
foretelling of many tales to come with the awakening sun!

Still we transverse, we transcend.
Wind sculpting natural forms
impressions impressed, spirituality kissed,
we are all life's invited guests.
And I Believe!

Black shifting into shadows of gray, night fading away,
streaking mists of dew drops wrapped around the soil, earth, plain
and all its brethren wherein life renews, remains,
awakening to its greater quest, to be, to give, to live
among the rest, together for another day!
As dawn is breaking through an ebony sky,
spilling further along its edges once solitary, dark and deep,
now awakening from sleep.

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The Raven, the Owl's habitat giving o'er
to Grizzly Bears on the prowl, seeking fish

to Rabbits, Squirrels, Beavers building dams and more.

The Robin, looking for the worm,
beaks seeking sustenance,
plants creating synthesis, so much busyness.
Wheat stalking the light, the air, seeking rain for thirst.

Life is light, Life is water, sought, needed,
droughts brought about are cursed.

Life insists, Water sustains the body, vital,
drinks in, nurtures, knowing this!

Spirits arise to feel within their heightened awareness,
Aurora's tender kiss laid upon The Sierras sacred breast
mingling with Natures spiritual song, Aurora sings along,
bending, bowing from the land, the brooks, the lakes, the rivers
sacred is the water blessed in its breath as well!
Rippling and running away, pastel blue and greens
crashing on rocks, the shore
as daybreak lifts the hemline of the sky higher
to reveal itself in its entirety.

An Eagle flies! Freedom is flight!
wings spread soaring over Evergreen and Sequoia alike!

The Dove is as welcome as the Sparrow to the Sky.
Birds chirping, bees buzzing, ants are tracing patterns upon

these ancient Sierras where dinosaurs roamed
and volcanoes begat the lava that became their backbone.
Mountains uplifted, rising to heights honed of this bone.
Granite and stone.
Mystical, magic becoming a reality.
We behold her power, her majesty!

Green is reverence given to the life long song
resounding now, in harmony, colors of the day
striking all beyond the Sierras window sills at play.

Iridescence cast on rock
beneath the seas, within the air,
Sierra Sunrise, sustaining life stirring in reverie
while creating reality,
its poetry beloved and profound.

Life spinning on its axis as the sun descends
the day about to end.
Twilight dons her night dress once again!

Calls the Owls back, to ponder in nocturnal wonderings
all these many truths
wrapped up within its feathered wings!

The Universe needs, Time to rest, repair and sleep.
The moon now, rising in the Sky
kissed by the rushing winds and stars.
Dancing with it and passing by ...
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Casting Moon glow upon the slumbering and about to dream!

And we know, life can still go on,
even when we leave our human form,
Even if mankind has passed away, spirituality remains,
this is the truth the Sierra Sunrise conveyed today.
The need of mindfulness in our connectedness
A Lesson to be learned, lest we forget
Spirits come in many forms!
So revere, the Sierras, Mother Earth,
ALL Nature
and Remember to nurture and tend
All these Spiritual friends from Sunrise to Sunset!
Until Next, When We Meet And Feel it ALL AGAIN!

The music you are listening to "Sunrise On the Sierras "was composed and performed by the very talented Joey Rosselle
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