The last two full moons have been powerful forces in my life... I truly feel that it is pulling me both deeper inside and then pushing me outside of myself and I feel the pull to become someone different, to do something different with my life. I have gone deeper inside than I thought possible, and I surface in waves, finding bits of poems and drawings like souvenirs on the journey. This is a time of becoming, for me, for us, of creating a beloved community and the only thing I can compare it to is giving birth. The Quickening by Shannon K. Lockhart my heart beats into that in between space where my not-quite-words reach out, beckoning me to shape them into a communal significance i sense the tingling spark of important my muscles arch and tense even as i try to smooth out the undercurrent of expectation the moment is now the birthing is happening deep inside my heartspace- i feel new life pushing an ...
Women's Spiritual Poetry