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Solstice Stop

Look to the sky as the sun sets
and before descending pauses

creates color in new incarnations
from vanishing light

Look to your life
human hands and brains fabricate

tear down and build up
things and ideas of significance

Look to your mind
like a monkey jumps

wildly grabs at everything
each thought arises and departs

Look to your breath
ascending and descending

inspiration springs life
expiration harvests meaning

Look between these comings and goings
sweet silence, perfect stillness

To the Earth, perhaps, each year is a single breath
and solstice is that quiet moment between
the rising and the falling of light and dark

In that pause, you can see

A million eyes experience wonder
as Times Square yogis salute the sun

The sockeye salmon leave ocean waters
to swim up river to spawn new life

A red-tail hawk hovering motionless in the sky
before it strikes its evening meal

Penguins huddled close together
as cold darkness begins to fade

Honey bees collecting nectar
in the blooming White House garden

You can hear the pause too
In the stillness and the silence
abiding love, enduring wisdom

You can hear it between the slow, deep breath of your lover
as the energy uncoils deep inside her soul

Between the sighs of your napping child
as the dreams of play dance inside
the sleeping mind

Between the "all" and the "aboard"
as the train conductor beckons you to adventure

In the moment just before the waves crash
sending water, earth, and air into churning unity

by Alan Zucker

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