[Thespiritexpress] Poems read at the Solstice Gathering

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 Thank you Toni. She is wonderful. Looking forward to read more of her.Viktoria 
    On Monday, December 23, 2024 at 02:34:15 PM PST, Toni Bernbaum via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org> wrote:   

 



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Before Winter Solstice, I Remember




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.




 - Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
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