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Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Prayer To The Mother Goddess



Spirit Mother,

It is me, your child--

The one shaken from your hair and falling.

I find myself

Here--

An Earth girl, set loose and wandering,

Never sure

If I am the stone,

The stream,

Or just the sound they make when dipped together into moving time.


Spirit Mother,

What is this homesickness?

I know--

A loftier view has been mine,

But sometimes,

When I look in the mirror

(though I know I carry your kiss)

I cannot find the Divine.


Am I a note

In a song I can't conceive?

This heaviness,

This body-ness,

This painful separation,

Is temporary, I know.

Everything I touch, breathe, or stand upon

Will melt and blow away, and me with it.


Spirit Mother,

Please tell me it's a circle and not a door--

Which, having turned,

Returns me to your hair

Blessed and at peace

Once more.

______

16 comments:

  1. One needs be shaken from the hair in order to find the way back. It is in returning that the appreciation for the place you left arrives with you.

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  2. You are some poet and writer. This is a very peaceful prayer-like poem.

    Secretia

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  3. you are a creator of worlds with beauty, freeing the imagination of others. thank you for the flight!

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  4. The wheel of life always turns in circles...

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  5. That picture, it's as if she's an artichoke come to life, so intriguing. This poem reminds me of all my January women, mother figures all: my Irish and French grandmothers, my mother, my step-mother, and my mother-in-law. All of them gone now, and I feel homesick for their earthly energy.

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  6. i would quote a favorite line, but one after another, each thought...embracing. i love it!

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  7. This is spirituality even a jaded guy like me can get behind.

    Lovely.

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  8. You will find the Divine. I am sure of it! :)

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  9. I really like this part
    "When I look in the mirror

    (though I know I carry your kiss)

    I cannot find the Divine."

    Sometimes it is hard to find the divine. I just didn't have the words to describ the feeling before.

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  10. This is the sweetest thing I've read from you, my dear Shay... You've moved me!!! How come? I sigh...

    Lots of LOVE ;)

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  11. So beautiful. I tend to believe it's circles and I love the flow here - the end flows back into the beginning again, unending - a circle of prayer.

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  12. Beautiful, I really like your blogging style! I'm over from Jannie's today.

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  13. you took the words right out of my mouth... xxx

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