May This Be An Opening
– Gretchen Sleicher
May this be an opening
May I be an opening
May we be an opening
An opening to love
(2: of love; 3: for love)
Garden Layers – Kazimea Sokil
Inch by inch, row by row
Sun and rain, grain by grain by grain
Soil that feeds each seed I sow,
Bless, bless, may this garden grow
Music of the earth –
Dreams of seedling birth.
Garden spring to fall –
Growing strong and tall
In the Dark – Lea Morris
What we seed in the dark grows
What we seed in the dark grows
What we seed in the dark grows and grows
How? No one knows
Darkness, hold me
I surrender
Darkness, mold me
How? No one knows
Darkness, Hold me
Darkness No one knows
The Great Unfolding – Gretchen Sleicher https://songsforthegreatturning.net/originals/the-great-unfolding/
The Great Unfolding is happening
Bud into leaf, and flowers peeking out
One by one, two by three, it’s a riot of diversity
And frogs sing their greeting to the spring
Acorn Song – Will Hale (excerpt) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHOGooSuoQQ
I am a small acorn
Leaving my tall tree home
Tumbling down and down
Safe in my shell
Down to the ground.
Deep in the ground I sleep
Taking my time in peace
Dreaming an acorn’s dream
I wake up to see
Now I’m a tree.
I am a wise old oak
Standing so tall and green
Stretching my branches high
Growing in strength
Up to the sky.
Riding My Bike – Laurence Cole
Riding my bike, riding my bike,
riding my bike to work and back
Ooo I like to ride my bike,
ride it to work, and back
I can hear the birds, I can feel the breeze
I can smell the blossoms on the trees
I can feel my body growing strong
It just makes me want to sing this song
Simple Praise of Trees
– David Densmore, Vivaldi, Gretchen Sleicher https://songsforthegreatturning.net/songs-of-gratitude/simple-praise-of-trees-v2/
I raise my arms in the forest,
and join the simple praise of trees.
I raise my arms, and join
the praise of trees
In the forest, the forest,
I raise my arms in praise of trees
I raise my arms,
and join the praise of trees
Drinking In the Green https://songsforthegreatturning.net/originals/drinking-in-the-green/
- Gretchen Sleicher
Drinking in the green
Reveling in tall trees
Breathing in the mountain air
River music everywhere
Green reveling mountains everywhere
Drinking tall trees
Breathing river
The Tree – Dana Lyons (excerpt) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD43c-UXk9I&list=RDGD43c-UXk9I&start_radio=1
There’s a river, flowing near me
And I’ve watched that river change and grow.
For 800 years, I have lived here
Through the wind, the fire and the snow.
I see salmon, return every summer
And I watch young owls learn to fly.
I have felt the paws of the grizzly
And I have heard the lone wolf’s cry.
Who will house the owl?
And who will hold that river shore?
And who will take refuge in my shadow?
When my shadow falls no more.
My roots go deep, I hold the shore, I house the owl, and so much more
2 toned parts
Standing Like a Tree – Betsy Rose https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjMiiZVb3pc
Standing like a tree with my roots dug down
my branches wide and open.
Come down the rain.
Come down the sun.
Come down the fruit to the heart that is open to be …
Love Like a Rose
– music Marvin Frey (Peace like a River) adapted
I’ve got
… Love Like a Rose in my soul
… Hope like a Snowdrop
… Freedom like a Dandelion
… Bounty like a Sunflower
… Solidarity like the Camas
… Persistence like the Fireweed
… Sorrow like an Elm
…Strength like an Oak tree