This is a response to Alexander Scriabin, whose music I find mesmerizing, lyric and theatrically avant-garde... This was written for easy adaptation to music and voice. We are part of the unending depth and presence of the universe. We embody the urge of expanse and connection. We can dance, twirl, call forth the eternal and, yet, we are also of this earth in the most present way even though we are wrapped in our humanity. Image by Evgeny Yorobe Photography Mystic Poem by Nanci Bern Spirit spirals sumptuous To the moss cool ground. Toes to earth, heels lifting to sky, I am rendered from the deepness of rich scented earth. I am filled with the presence of bliss beyond the senses. I am filled with the galaxy. It surges through my fingers. I am light and sky and earth filled, I rise to meet the wild, wide of the ever expanse of the luminous forever. I hold my palms to time. I touch the eternal. I face the vast divine, That is the...
Women's Spiritual Poetry