Cleaning for Worship.....

Sometimes I feel the skies perform their stuff only for my friend Sylvia from Tacoma, Wa.

Have a look at some amazing skies in this post on her blog.

This sense of dull gold, cleaned silver and ancient pewter that I get from this photograph has the head in a spin of ideas....

Maybe the setting Sun, having traversed many lands, understands....


(photograph by Sylvia Kirkwood)
He moves across the world,
observing
the rituals,prayers
and
modes of worship
across the lands.

Fragrant flowers
of the east,
incense sticks,
ghee lamps,
fruits,
betel nut leaves,
and a
daily cleaning
of pooja (worship) vessels
crafted in
old silver
and pewter
of the ages.

She stands
in her balcony,
in Tacoma
rejoicing
in the beauty,
and color
and fragrance of the roses,
the carpets of green,
and
rippling water below,
and watches
in amazement,
as the
rain
brushes against
the dark clouds
in the sky
rubs and rubs
them clean,
amidst
thundering prayers,
and
lightning sky lamps.

The thanksgiving
worship ritual can now start;
the sky vessel
has been cleaned and polished,
till the gold,
silver
and pewter
shines through
in prayer....