[Thespiritexpress] Poems read at the Solstice Gathering

[Yasskin Marc]

Thank you dear Toni ~ ~~~~~~ as we turn toward the light again ~ and remember ~ 🙏 💛⚡️ 



> On Dec 23, 2024, at 2:33 PM, Toni Bernbaum via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org> wrote:
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> Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer - Word Woman - Poet, Teacher, Storyteller
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> Before Winter Solstice, I Remember
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> This, too, is what we are born for,
> this waking in darkness, unable
> to see, but still able to hear the shush
> of wind in bare branches, able to feel
> the charge of our heartbeat, the swell
> of our belly as it fills with borrowed air.
> I have spent my life learning to love
> these shapeless hours before the light
> finds us, these shadowsome nights when
> my whole being seems to stretch beyond
> the bed, beyond the room, beyond the home,
> beyond the valley, beyond even the globe,
> as if I rhyme with the dark all around us,
> the dark that holds us, the dark that surrounds
> this whole swirling spiral of galaxy.
> Sometimes, I feel how that infinite darkness
> calls to the darkness inside me as if to say,
> remember, remember where you come from,
> remember what you are. And the darkness
> inside me sings back.
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> 	- Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
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