In the name of God the most Gracious, the most Merciful… My intention when writing is to surrender my current feeling and let the words flow through me so that it may be as an act of prayer or an offering of my innermost self. After I have written it down, I may let it go, although it will still remain. What comes, let it come, what goes, let it go, what’s next? The experience and sensation of life is so strange and enchanting, there are moments and feelings that cannot be captured, but poetry for me is the closest I can get to holding it, cherishing it, then feeling that I can let it go. Sometimes I feel like the poem is writing itself, by the time I get to the end, I am amazed! Sometimes a poem reveals itself to me- such is the life I feel when I am living with remembrance, and it is my sincere wish to do so. “Birthright” is a reminder to live with this surrender and remembrance, because it is our birthright after all to serve, and love, and simply be. The “ninety-...
Women's Spiritual Poetry