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Owning Creativity: A Cleansing Poem
Happy weekend Pinkies. Joy here with another amateur pile of verse inspired by cleanse week, and the first rays of the sun we've seen in weeks in the bay area...
Rainy Season
Sometimes it does
Take that long
Endless torrents - cleansing tears
Half the world
Washed away
The other half
Growing in
Fungal
and Green
and New
Overwhelming that
Which lives
Vicious roaring flow
Viscous muddy motion
Threatening all it supports
Emptying heavens
and eyes
Washing out ducts
and gutters
And still it falls
and you wonder -
How could there be
So
Much
Water? And
Whence does it come? And
How much more
Can the ground hold? And
How have I not
Yet
Crumbled
Shattered
Broken
Imploded
How can I be this soggy and still
Alive?
And yet. I am.
And all
The better
For
The rain.
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Thank you my darling ones.
By Joy (not verified) on Monday, 02/01/2010 at 6:02 PMThank you my darling ones. Dana, you are unbelievable. Other side of the same coin, as always. Tracy, actually, I had crying in mind but was looking at the rain when I wrote this. Glad that came across (I'm still too much of a novice to trust that it will). I hear it's been gorgeous in the bay area this weekend (I've been in snowy virginia) but the tears will begin to fall again come tomorrow. More inspiration ... lots of love girls. xoxox
Dearest, dearest Joy, what a
By Christa Avampato (not verified) on Monday, 02/01/2010 at 4:17 PMDearest, dearest Joy, what a gorgeous piece of work from a lovely you! xoxo
This is how I sometimes feel
By Tracy Pillows (not verified) on Sunday, 01/31/2010 at 8:25 PMThis is how I sometimes feel about crying. Thank you Joy (and Dana). xo, Tracy
(and as the sun streams in my
By Dana Theus on Sunday, 01/31/2010 at 9:17 AM(and as the sun streams in my window and bounces brightly off the snow here in the East)
Cold in the bones deeper than the marrow how do i walk ? how do i pray? how do i live? when the cold runs so deep? Until the sun shines warming my face as my feet chill and i stand in the natural paradox of all that lives and absorb its wisdom for it is me and i am it and it is within me and i am at peace.
Love, Light and Sunshine ~Dana
Very beautiful! Thank you!
By Jo (not verified) on Sunday, 01/31/2010 at 9:06 AMVery beautiful! Thank you!