I was thinking this morning about how nursery rhymes and songs of long ago stay with us, how poems well written to music resonate through time in our souls, How, music of 50 years ago is so persistent today.  How we can hear the rhythms of life in children… the same for nature.  We need to see, hear, and be connected to this life resonance…

 

Life Resonance

There’s a life resonance all around us
we find it in everything, feel it about us.
We never say ‘oh I’ve seen a sunrise,
I don’t need to see another again.’

We don’t say, ‘I’ve heard the ocean
waves, and the babbling brook or
the wind through the pine trees,
so I need not hear them again.’

We seek the sunset and birds singing
not for the rarity but for the clarity of
the repeating songs, the resonance
which assures us life continues on.

We listen to the rhythms of life
in those we love, their breaths,
their movements and sounds, and
we hear and love their songs of life.

We hear not a song and say,
I’ve heard this before, we need not
hear it again, but rather we sing along
or hum for then it brings us greater joy.

These poems with notes are not
alive in us because we heard them once
but because they become part of our
life-story, our life-love resonance.

So sing along, sing loud for this
is life resonance, these are the
rhythms which enrich our souls
as they flow through us.

Even a little snoring is good for the soul!