Poetry: Towards the Sky

Towards the Sky

The hands that touch,

The tongues that speak,

The eyes that see,

We are, we are.

The history that dances,

The night that breathes,

The silence that screams,

We are, we are.

We are children of the earth,

Stardust in constant expansion,

Truth born of compassion.

We are pure and raw fear,

Aching for love and acceptance.

But as we look towards the sky,

We catch Spirit drawing a smiling cloud.

And from the wind comes amnesty.

For we were made to excel,

We were made to break the shell

Of comfort and pettiness.

The hands that touch,

The tongues that speak,

The eyes that see,

We are, we are.

©2015 Cendrine Marrouat

I turned the poem into a video. You can watch it below:

Towards the Sky is an excerpt from When the Mind Travels (2015), a meditation on nature and the human condition. You can purchase a copy by clicking the link below.

That's it for today! Thank you for reading!

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Cendrine Marrouat is a writer, photographer, podcaster, blogger, anthology editor, and the co-founder of Auroras & Blossoms and A Warm Cup of Cozy. She has authored and co-authored more than 40 books, including The Train: A Short Story (2023), In Her Own Words: A Collection of Short Stories & Flashku (2022), After the Fires of Day: Haiku Inspired by Kahlil Gibran & Alphonse de Lamartine (2021), Rhythm Flourishing: A Collection of Kindku and Sixku (2020), Walks: A Collection of Haiku (2019-2020), and In the Silence of Words: A Three-Act Play (2018).

Cendrine's work has appeared in many publications. She is the creator of the Sixku, Flashku, Sepigram, and Reminigram; as well as the co-creator of the Kindku, Pareiku, Vardhaku, and Hemingku.