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Women Becoming PoemsPraise to women becoming poemstake time to choose truth. Praise to women who don't have to be good use words to smooth pain into clear voice. Praise to women who belong to sky, stone heaven....... to their own touch. Praise to women who want more than they are given stealing portions of minutes grateful for seconds to offer themselves to their questions. Praise to women who crochet dreams of golden wounds. Praise to women who step down from mad-made heights singing hymns of birth. Praise to childless mothers who bless earth with nurturing. Praise to husbands who take care of children who say "I love you" with a smile as their wives leave. Praise to daughters crying at doors happy - sad, not knowing the power of their clinging, grabbing finally letting go. Praise to driving into dark quiet evenings attention magnified listening to nature scratching Praise to voices in silence, plunging into oceans of familiar sounds so deep you can hardly breathe. Praise to relief in getting back to something you brushed with years ago. Some spirit, phantom that was you. Praise to courage it takes to love the most simple and ordinary of things, the courage it takes to love oneself. |
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Issue #15, April, 2000 :
Santa Fe Poetry Broadside.