[Thespiritexpress] EQUINOX INVITATION ~ 

[Cornelia Gerken]

How delicious, and how magic, just little facades... and the bech, oh
heaven Robin, that is how it looks.
🧡
C

On Sat, Mar 9, 2024 at 6:04 PM mariposa via Thespiritexpress <
thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org> wrote:

> Mmmmmm. Me encanta tus poemas, siempre.
>
> Joe and I are  in La Manzanilla, staying not far from Nansee Littletree
> and Casa Luz. It is heaven.
> And today I went to the La Manzanilla writing group, and I wrote! Words,
> to my surprise, flowed out. The dam holding them back was just a facade. Ha
> ha.
>
> Love you always,
> Pajarita
>
>
>
>
> > On Mar 9, 2024, at 2:01 PM, Devreaux via Thespiritexpress <
> thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org> wrote:
> >
> > I wrote this poem quite a few years ago to Ron and Toni for providing
> > Spirit House for the community and thought I would share it again in
> > tandem with the Equinox invitation.
> > Devreaux
> >
> >
> > Spirit House
> >
> > There are no maps to guide us on this journey
> > beyond the words
> > trust in the earth
> >
> > At night in the Spirit House
> > our ancestors gather around us
> > I wear a bracelet of 54 prayer beads
> > I whisper the prayers to greet our dead
> >
> > for the soul is a wanderer
> > with many hands and feet
> >
> > I feel my heart open to the figure
> > of a girl somewhere in the field of my past
> > She carries my Grandmother's face
> > hidden behind her eyes
> > so in this way she completes a circle
> > of all our people
> > opening like wings on either side of her
> >
> > At night in the Spirit House they come with prayer shawls
> > and beads to break bread with the living
> > There are no guide posts for this kind of journey
> > beyond opening ourselves to the power of the universe
> >
> > I sing the names of our dead
> > count the prayers wrapped around my wrist
> > watch the small circle of stars tremble a reflection
> > of all our faces
> > in the sacred circle
> > floating just above our heads.
> >
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