Prepositional Alignment from Camp GLP
At Camp GLP last week, I had the chance to do something I’ve wanted to do since I was a girl.
photo by Gregory Berg
I have an odd talent of having the prepositions committed to memory, and I’ve wanted to perform them onstage, with a bit of spice. At our Talent Show, I was able to finally express a life-long dream. The feedback was fantastic, and I plan to work on this as a performance piece to share elsewhere.
When it came time to write an essay about my camp experience, of course I had to extend the preposition structure with this poem.
Prepositional Alignment
Cynthia Morris
Aboard the yellow bus we wend our way to camp.About now we’re wondering how we can flee back to safety. But
above the gate, iridescent giant bubbles float, inviting us to play.Across pebbled paths we haul our baggage
After all that effort and packing, we finally arrive.
Against the backdrop of fun, our demons rise up to blah blah blah their complaints.
Along the way we get to choose what stories we align with.
Amid the discomforts of cold and rain we uncover new strength and resiliency
Among new friends and mentors we find courage to step up to our soul work.
Around this much relentless positivity, it’s impossible to believe the old moldy stories
At this confluence of learning, growth and play, we arrive.
Before camp, it was easy to believe we were alone.
Behind the glow of campfire and melting of marshmallows, we warm to our new paths.
Below the surface thrums an impossibly loving beat.
Beneath all the excitement, our true essences wait patiently.
Beyond all borders and stories lies a field: let’s combine our colors there.
Between sessions we share conversations that reveal we are not strangers after all.
By the time we fall into our soft taco beds, a lifetime of love has coursed though our veins.
Down by the lake after dark a disco springs up.
During the rapping and gyrating we embed joy in our cells. We’d dance all night like princesses
except the early morning om time comes all too soon.
For KC only we pull ourselves from fitful sleep to om together at 6:00 am.
From this group stillness we ground the exuberance into deep knowing.
In our communal breath we ease our tender bodies
into a greater tribe of world changers who are always
near us, one breath away.
Of science of flourishing, Emiliya brings soul and depth.
Off button? There isn’t one here, life is full-on, waiting for us to claim its bounty. We shine
on, raise our arms and voices to salute the incontrovertible joy of being human together.
Over abundant banquets we swap stories, ideas, addresses and recipes.
Past the Arts and Crafts cottage,
through the copse we dive into workshops that grow us and show us how
to rally our minds, hearts and bodies into our unique creative expression
toward an individual and collective impact that will ripple outward for a long, long time.
Under a steady drizzle we bravely step
up to listen, to learn, to grow and share, building
upon Stephanie and Jonathan’s rallying cry to make, love, and give in alignment.
With all this abundance, where to go next? Simple….go
within and bring all the bounty of Camp straight into the heart.
Without fear, take the leap into your exuberant, aligned action and make the world glow.
#CampGLP
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