You know you’re in
the carribean,
when there are
three cupboards
full of glasses:
tumblers,
juice glasses,
wine glasses,
margarita glasses,
water glasses.
And a total of six cups.
No need for heat here-
the sun and
warm hearts
provide it.
No need for coffee here
island time
no hurries
no worries
mon.
Just smiles
and open hearts.
Lizette Estelle Stiehr
December 5, 2011
from one week on Eluthera, Bahama
The wild tiger in each of us
dresses in sheep’s clothing
continually bringing
ourselves to heel.
Zorba the Greek
refused his sheep coat
and danced his wildness.
Gandhi marched with dignity,
a wild tiger focused on
freedom and independence.
Martin Luther King Jr’s
wild tiger spoke
so eloquently of it’s dream.
And we,
each of us,
after a lifetime of training to heel,
must find and free
that wild tiger
in order to find joy
and ironically
peace.
Lizette Estelle Stiehr
December 9, 2011
On Eluthera (Bahamas)
The condor soars high,
killing nothing,
yet living by eating
that is already dead.
Consuming the past
what is no longer alive.
We humans purify our lives
by allowing ourselves
to consume and digest
the story, our history
of who we were,
of places we’ve
loved and rooted
and accomplishments we’ve crowed.
In order to fly
high and clear
and free
and be all that
we can be.
Lizette Estelle Stiehr
December 22, 2011
2013 Oracles, the condor
