Julie participated in an online Psalms Project facilitated by Rabbi Or Rose @ IFYC – Interfaith Youth Core.
Cherish her words below, inspired by Psalm 84:3. “Even the sparrow has found a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may have her young--a place near your altar, O LORD Almighty, my King and my God”.
Even the bowerbird
builds a home out of scraps,
canvassing walls with purple
blossom and blue beads,
and carries red clay
that remembers blood lines.
Even white-bellied sea eagles
on sheer edges of space
find freedom to soar
close-spanned to their own.
If, even they,
then find my walls and clay
a freeing air for my blood.
©Julie Thorpe
Image ©Julie Thorpe
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