Four Races – v2

There was a symmetry, balance

in the telling of the story around the roaring fire

of the union of the four races

to the four elements – fire, water, air, and earth

of the way we are bound to the elements,

to one another, in harmony

The telling of the white people, bound to fire,

the sources of innovation, of modern life.

Of the black peoples, connected to water,

source of life, the ability to find water

in the arid desert, remote places

The yellow people, masters of the air,

home of kites and wind.

And the red peoples, tied to this earth,

mother of us all. How wonderful the telling

the story of us, in the binding one to the other

elements and peoples, in balance in the natural order

the way of things on the earth, on Turtle Island

Edited May 5, 2013

“Four Races – v2”

August 19, 2007 14:18

“Four Races”

Words of Thunderbird Turtle Woman

Our mission trip, from Wesley United Methodist Church,

Concord, NH and from First United Methodist Church,

Hudson, MA to Jacksonville and Machias, ME

to the Down East Maine Mission,

Jacksonville United Methodist Campground,

East Machias, ME

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