Last night, as I posted, the words of a paragraph began to take shape as a poem and Mary Oliver’s words echoed for me.
Today, I took those words and echoes and finished the poem. It has been some time since I wrote a poem. Perhaps, without the urgency of writing a dissertation, this just happened. As well, the break without a need to read and write may have helped and freshened my desire to write differently.
There is no sense of urgency.
Here, I am in the shadow of nature
It uplifts, holding me close.
Nature reminds of less mechanical ways and times;
Of just being and living in the moment.
Pelicans dive bomb the surf in an instinctive search,
Oblivious to me, they bob on the waves.
At night, stars fill darkness and stillness,
They wait to be touched.
Oxen pull a plow across the hardpan soil,
They follow a deep-rooted instinct lost on me
The horse trotts a path, familiar to it
I sway, recalling greater comfort the last time I rode.
I recall days past.
I unsmother moments, days and experiences
My dreams call out to me;
They breathe life into my being.
Here, I sense what it might mean to live and just be.
Without urgency, there is a lightness in my gait.
About ivonprefontaine
In keeping with bell hooks and Noam Chomsky, I consider myself a public and dissident intellectual. Part of my work is to move beyond (transcend) institutional dogmas that bind me to defend freedom, raising my voice to be heard on behalf of those who seek equity and justice in all their forms.
I completed my PhD in Philosophy of Leadership Studies at Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA. My dissertation and research was how teachers experience becoming teachers and their role as leaders.
I focus on leading, communicating, and innovating in organizations. This includes mindfuful servant-leadership, World Cafe events, Appreciative Inquiry, and expressing one's self through creativity. I offer retreats, workshops, and presentations that can be tailored to your organzations specific needs.
I published peer reviewed articles about schools as learning organizations, currere as an ethical pursuit, and hope as an essential element of adult eductaion. I published three poems and am currently preparing my poetry to publish as an anthology of poetry.
I present on mindful leadership, servant leadership, schools as learning organizations, how teachers experience becoming teachers, assessement, and critical thinking. I facilitate mindfulness, hospitality retreats. and World Cafe Events using Appreciative Inquiry.
I am writing and researching about various forms of leadership, how teachers inform and form their identity as a particular teacher, schools as learning organizations, hope and its anticipatory relationship with the future, and hope as an essential element in learning.
Teacher as Transformer 
I like this very much.. Your words move free and light…
Thank you. It took a few runs at writing, but I was aiming for fewer words.
It worked out just fine..
Lovely.
Thank you.
Beautiful!
Thank you Tina.
Lovely! May you continue to write without urgency,and lightness in your gait.
Thank you. I will try.