Universe Project call

Fire Poem

Here's the poem that I promised I would post on the Universe Project conference call this week.

It was a great call where we were exploring the qualities of the authentic self - that passionate urgency that is the creative force of the cosmos in the awakening human.

Rather than give a description, I read out a poem I'd written last week. I was on a great two day leadership course where one task was to write a ‘Fire poem' expressing your passion and purpose. Mine was about the authentic self and the Universe Project.

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My Cosmic Agenda

I feel the quickening, the pulse, the current, the call of the Life force itself:

In the clap of the wood pigeon's wings cutting through the air

In the explosion of song of the Robin in the apple tree

In the astounding crimson of the Japanese maple against the compelling green of the Box hedge

The ivy questing up the brick wall

They are the current of Life, of the creative process itself and they express it fully

They are it, but they don't know it

And then the staggering realization that I am this creative eruption and unfoldment too.

I am the torrent of creation itself

And being human at this extraordinary point in time,

I know that I know and I can choose.

14 billion years of evolution all contained in me, in us, pulsing through my heart and veins,

calling out for more, more, ever more, compelling, commanding.

I feel the passion of the Universe in the depths of my heart and soul

And it says - or I say? - I can't tell the difference - it's all the same thing.

I must! I must! I must!

 Must what?

Learn, stretch, find out, explore, become more conscious, develop without end

Not for me, but so that the Universe becomes ever more conscious of itself through us.

Ecstatic urgency to become the eyes and ears of the evolving cosmos

To be on the edge of the unformed surf

And to come together in the passion of creative friction with others

To prove with my own example that a different human culture is possible.

This is my passion.

This is my life.

Kyrsten's Painting inspired by my Fire poem