Vijali’s Ongoing Journal:

The first Ocean Spiral event was held May 5, 2007 in the Caribbean waters of Costa Rica. The day was special as we fifteen women, mostly Casta Rican activist, gathered together, dressed each other in colored sarongs of the rainbow, drank water that had been given to me from the sacred waters of the world (Ganges, Tigres, Nile, Colorado, Amazon Rivers etc.) and entered the ocean holding hands. We formed a pod with our hands raised as prayers for the pertection of the Caribbean waters were said. One by one we broke loose from the pod swimming to form a spiral as we let loose organic colors of the rainbow gathered from around the world. Poems were read, and all the while, Gaudalupe Urbina, a powerful Costa Rican singer and composer blessed the day by singing her songs about water.

The second Ocean Spiral event will be held in the South Pacific, June 2008 in the waters of Fiji. Again I will be creating a spiral dance dispersing natural colors of the rainbow as a prayer for the protection of our streams, rivers, lakes, and oceans of the world.

I am asking people of the world to send in their poems about water that will be read at the ceremony as it is filmed: poems about our intrinsic connection with water, our bodies being70% water—poems about the pollutions of our rivers and oceans and the death of whales and sea life because of sound pollution and chemical pollution—poems about the spirit of water, the beauty of water, the inspiration of water.

Please send in your poems to this blog and sign the release so that I can use your poems or a line or phrase from your poems to create a group poem for the Ocean Spiral ceremony and any related media such as films, books, and publicity. To do so, click here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

       

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

11 June 2007 | Vijali Journal | Comments