Today is Valentine's Day, a day to celebrate love… I was tucked away one morning, writing a love poem for the woman that named my bones holy, the woman that made my smile come out of hiding, the woman that I love with all the lifetimes I can muster. The words poured out from the inspiration I received after reading one of my favorite lines of poetry from Pablo Neruda, “I want to do with you what spring does to the cherry trees.” My poem "Becoming Vapor & Rain" flowed out of me for her, my beloved. That night, as we played checkers and laughed, words of my poem came out of her mouth even though she had never read or seen the poem with her eyes! She had already absorbed the poem with her heart, with the thoughts I was projecting as I wrote. This is how close we are in this love, DNA entwined, almost one person. There is one person out there who will love you in all of your light and shadows, in a way that echoes through all of your lifetimes, in a way tha...
Women's Spiritual Poetry