“The Dance” has become for me a metaphor for life – For existence as a whole, in fact, where Life includes our physical deaths and whatever might lie beyond them. Many of my poems refer to the Dance, or dancing, and my complete poetry collection is called “The Dance” (with “Ghost Dance” and “Sun Dance” being the first two volumes) because for me, “The Dance” is a metaphor for life and my poetry is the way I express it. This poem, Prayer, is saying something that’s at the core of my perspective. Firstly, that prayer, worship, connection with the Divine, is not only about one-off rituals or events, but about the whole of life, our whole experience of living . It’s what the Dance is all about. Secondly, that… Everything we are, everything - and everyone - we see or hear or touch, in whatever way, is an expression of that Divinity. We and the world around us ARE the Dance and the Dance itself IS Divine. ~'Ballet' photograph by Phreik (Emily Ro...
Women's Spiritual Poetry