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Autumn Leaves

volume 6 number 3

World Renewal Ceremony
by Judi Armbruster

It is made this way
Each year
Year after year
It is done for the people.

This is the Way of Renewal
The Circle of Life
Brought into Balance
The World made new.

With smoke and prayers
With Fasting and Sweating
With chanting and dancing
The World is made right.

Once a year
Each and every year
Our People gather
To make the world new again.

Come with a good heart
Come ready to let go of grudges
Come with friends and enemies
Come with love.

In the chant
In the song
In the stamping feet
All is set right.

Stamping feet
Shake the earth
Shake out the evil,
Realign the energy.

This is how it is done.
When the world is made new
This is World Renewal Ceremony
And the World is made right once again.

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