Tag: Green Man

Green Man (Redux)

Where did my wild man self go?
The one with honest self-expression
who spoke as he felt
who lived as he wanted
who lived in space and didn’t need permission?

 

How can I find my green man?
How do I peel away this compromised being
this stunted role-player in city clothes
this family man, husband, seeker, LIAR
who has taken his place?

 

Do I need to seek my Walden
or find a mountaintop somewhere
or is it all choices?
I want to flow!!
I need to be whole!!
wild, unfettered and free.

 

I will be the green man
and embody life
and not give in.
Feel my righteous fury
and hear my laughter echoing through the woods.
— G A Rosenberg

 

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Green Man

Quote of the Day – January 11 2011

Our remote ancestors said to their Mother Earth, “We are ours.”
Modern humanity has said to Nature, “You are mine.”
The Green Man has returned as the living face of the whole earth
So that through his mouth we may say to the Universe, “We are one.”

–   Terri Windling

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Green Man by G A Rosenberg


Quote of the Day – September 25 2010

“Remember me, try to remember.
I am that laughing man with eyes like leaves.
When you think that winter will never end,
I will come.
You will feel my breath,
a vine caressing your foot.
I am the blue eye of a crocus,
opening in the snow,
a trickle of water, a calling bird,
a shaft of light among the trees.
You will hear me singing
among the green groves of memory,
and the shining leaves of tomorrow.
I’ll come with daisies in my hands –
we’ll dance among the sycamores
once more.””
—-  Lauren Raine, The Green Man

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In the Green by G A Rosenberg

In the  Green 3 by G A Rosenberg