jasmine and orange

>> Wednesday, April 8, 2009

the moon is beautiful tonight. She's reminding us of hope. And connecting us in so many ways we will never know. I have learned to find so much hope in her light. when I look out my window and see her rising in the night sky, it overwhelms me with joy. Sometimes the joy feels sorrowful too....but it is definitely joy. She is the light rising through the darkness, the hope that you sometimes can't find. She is 'walking through the valley of death'. Every night donning her walking shoes and and braving reality, taking what seems like an endless abyss of black. darkness. and turning it into something beautiful. Some nights she hides, as we all do, behind clouds, wind, rain. But always she returns, still shining, cycling, changing.

The moon reminds me that I am a woman. And that this is something of which I am proud. She reminds me of the deep, beautiful connection I share with all other women. Looking at the moon sometimes makes me long for the days when all women were truly connected through the cycles of the moon...but now we all twirl alone, our connectivity lost through pollution, electric light, and stress. But her ability to connect, to inject our arteries with the pulse of mother earth, and to know that others, too, are sharing in this beat still remains.

Is that what we have to settle for these days? The things that still remain. Small, insufficient remnants of what once was a beautiful future. I hope not. And hope is all I can really do.

hope dangles on a string
like slow spinning redemption
winding in winding out
the shine of it has caught my eye
*dashboard

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another

>> Thursday, April 2, 2009

breaking
wind
breaking
skin
nose running and cheeks
burning
horns honk
sometimes mine
but usually not
usually at me
usually not yours
Beep beep beepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeeeepp
it goes
beep?
i ask
looking for clarification
wanting to be let into the lane
in on the secret
and i see you
anger
shame
embarrassment
get out of the way!
get a light

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