To A Loved One Entering Transition
May the Divine Essence of the Cosmic infuse your being,
so your consciousness is aware of the Divine Light
with which you are entrusted...
and may you merge into the Greater Light
as a feather is upraised when it rides the white wind
of the Invisible One most humans call God…
and animals, insects, microbes and plants
accept without question as commander
of their inalienable innate natures.
May you go in Peace Profound.
I grant you permission, loved one.
GO NOW… please…
before I change my mind!
Wanda Sue Parrott, 81, is “Homeless in Paradise” columnist for the Cedar Street Times and senior dancer with the Tap Bananas. The Monterey Peninsula Herald named her Poet Laureate Runner Up of the Monterey Peninsula in 1965. After retiring as an investigative reporter and newspaper feature writer, she co-founded and administered the National Annual Senior Poets Laureate Poetry Competition for American poets age 50 and older from 1993-2014. Wanda’s narrative-poem chapbook exposing raw sewage on her property, “The Last Indian on the Trail of Tears,” won a $91,000 settlement from City of Springfield, Mo. in 2008.
May the Divine Essence of the Cosmic infuse your being,
so your consciousness is aware of the Divine Light
with which you are entrusted...
and may you merge into the Greater Light
as a feather is upraised when it rides the white wind
of the Invisible One most humans call God…
and animals, insects, microbes and plants
accept without question as commander
of their inalienable innate natures.
May you go in Peace Profound.
I grant you permission, loved one.
GO NOW… please…
before I change my mind!
Wanda Sue Parrott, 81, is “Homeless in Paradise” columnist for the Cedar Street Times and senior dancer with the Tap Bananas. The Monterey Peninsula Herald named her Poet Laureate Runner Up of the Monterey Peninsula in 1965. After retiring as an investigative reporter and newspaper feature writer, she co-founded and administered the National Annual Senior Poets Laureate Poetry Competition for American poets age 50 and older from 1993-2014. Wanda’s narrative-poem chapbook exposing raw sewage on her property, “The Last Indian on the Trail of Tears,” won a $91,000 settlement from City of Springfield, Mo. in 2008.
