It Is Time to Wake Up! — Hafiz (1320-1389) Hey you, parrot! Speaking in riddles,Sugar wouldn’t melt in your mouth! Clear your head so your heart will be happy,And then mimic the words of the Beloved! To everyone who walks by, you have given mixed messages;For God’s sake, tell us something we don’t know. O … Read more
While I am away, I am sharing some of the poetry for Brighid that was posted this week in Her honor. Drink deep from this beauty and fill the wells of your inspiration. MESSENGER by Mary Oliver (how could I not include a Mary Oliver poem?) My work is loving the world.Here the sunflowers, there … Read more
While I am away, I am sharing some of the poetry for Brighid that was posted this week in Her honor. Drink deep from this beauty and fill the wells of your inspiration. SONG 17from Earth Psalmsby Angela Magara My lips call to you Goddess.My lips – in which I have steeped truth of its … Read more
While I am away, I am sharing some of the poetry for Brighid that was posted this week in Her honor. Drink deep from this beauty and fill the wells of your inspiration. THE CAVE PAINTERSby Eamon Grennan Holding only a handful of rushlightthey pressed deeper into the dark, at a crouchuntil the great rock … Read more
While I am away, I am sharing some of the poetry for Brighid that was posted this week in Her honor. Drink deep from this beauty and fill the wells of your inspiration. HEART TO HEARTby Rita Dove It’s neither rednor sweet.It doesn’t meltor turn over,break or harden,so it can’t feelpain,yearning,regret. It doesn’t havea tip … Read more
St. Bridget of the Mantle by MD Spooner (?) Fire in the forge thatshapes and tempers. Fire of the hearth thatnourishes and heals.Fire in the head thatincites and inspires.— The Three-Fold Fire of Brighid, the Ord BrighideachToday is the feast day of St. Brigid who is also Brighid, the beloved Goddess of the Old Religion. … Read more
January from A Calendar of Sonnets by Helen Hunt JacksonO Winter! frozen pulse and heart of fire,What loss is theirs who from thy kingdom turnDismayed, and think thy snow a sculptured urnOf death! Far sooner in midsummer tireThe streams than under ice. June could not hireHer roses to forego the strength they learnIn sleeping on … Read more
Gaia ©Halo Sharp New Energy TarotEarth PsalmsPsalm 95by Angela Magara Come and sing, let us sing to the rocks who stand with Life.Let joy resound with a great noise.Life holds sacredness in her generous hand.Be not silent in your love. Sing of earth who holds the caves within.Whose body breathes hills and mountainsAnd throbs with … Read more
In memory of my mother on her birthday.EAST COKER(No. 2 of ‘Four Quartets’)excerpted from Part V.by T.S. Eliot Home is where one starts from. As we grow olderThe world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicatedOf dead and living. Not the intense momentIsolated, with no before and after,But a lifetime burning in every momentAnd not the … Read more
Night Mirrorby Li-Young Lee Li-Young, don’t feel lonelywhen you look upinto great night and findyourself the far face peeringhugely out from betweena star and a star. All that spacethe nighthawk plunges through,homing, all that distance beyond embrace,what is it but your own infinity. And don’t be afraidwhen, eyes closed, you look inside youand find night … Read more