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[b]Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings (Part 5)
by Joy Harjo[/b]
5. ELIMINATE NEGATIVE ATTITUDES DURING CONFLICT:
A panther poised in the cypress tree about to jump is a panther poised in a cypress tree about to jump.
The panther is a poem of fire green eyes and a heart charged by four winds of four directions.
The panther hears everything in the dark: the unspoken tears of a few hundred human years, storms that will break what has broken his world, a bluebird swaying on a branch a few miles away.
He hears the death song of his approaching prey:
[i]I will always love you, sunrise.
I belong to the black cat with fire green eyes.
There, in the cypress tree near the morning star.[/i][/center]
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