Wide Landscape

Normal school
Spoke 
Only english 
Practicing
Penmanship 

Everything else
Was
Transient

Across 
Space time
Even in brokenness

Wet and cool
On your tongue
Hot in your hands
Squatting
Close to the earth 
In the sand

This is where 
we felt the connection
to our wholeness

My brokenness
Is yours
My thriving
Is yours

The palila 
Will show us 
Whether 

The mountain
Will thrive 

The mountain 
Will show us
If the island people 
Will thrive
The island people
Will show us
If we thrive

Everything can 
Be seen 
With a wide landscape

Put some distance
Between you
And the curious
Question 
Swirling in and around you

Practice
Simple things
On a daily basis

This is how
You
Mend the
Arc 
Of wholeness

by Omar Brownson

April 8, 2022

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As part of "In the Art of Waging Peace, The Heart Is Everything" Booklet

Omar Brownson – Poetry

Los Angeles , CA / Tongva Lands 

These words are a practice of listening with the heart. I share them with the spirit of love and in service to peace. 

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