We Have all had times in our lives were we feel deep inner transformation occurring as we are going through hard times... This poem tracks the plunge into pain and despair, the tuning to God, the expelling of inner demons, and ultimately the phoenix rising from the flames. The video was made for the poem, mapping the journey from dark to light, from the prison of the mind, to the embrace of dear friends. Emergence by Janavi Held 1 I punctured the universe for a place to grow my heart. The blood of my endeavors soaks into a history of crying artists. I sit with that race gazing at a catastrophe of visions unmet exploding into odd, disorienting shapes which can't breath anymore, can't give birth. I have penetrated the unseen universe with a chant. 2 It has lips and eyes this universe. Its stomach and lungs are vacuums, yet I am unseen, seeking a deep ocean, a restless bit of oxygen, my mind st...
Women's Spiritual Poetry