Sunday, October 9, 2022

Love Warriors

 

Love warriors wild child poster  black and white art  wild image 1

 

 

Where Are the Love Warriors

epitaphs seeking orison

all manner of Lives and unknown unrecorded Deaths

one died mysteriously in police custody

one died sleeping in the right apartment

for the wrong reason

one died in madness shocked and chained

cardiac arrest

(well Some kind of arrest anyway!)

another died in an alley naked and alone

robbed of her humanity just a commodity

hunger like the beak of a terrible bird peck peck pecking at the vitals

marking the emptiness stitching the belly shut with pain

words stolen from the mouths of the long dead

forgotten anonymous

 

Their words made whole again

Live again

Resounding in the world like Clarion

like Deep Gong

shivering night air 

shimmering sun-bleached moments hazy summer daylight

Words of Women Long Dead

Layers of Stories Reclaimed from the Void

Black Hole of the Nothing

Eater Consumer Excreter of All that’s of Value

rendering a strange and sudden destruction

burning into consciousness

trails of Fire and slow roll of lava

incendiary heart

blackened crust encasing red orange glow yellow heat

 

one spoke of Freedom while kneeling scrubbing floors

one spoke of Love to children born of rape

transformed the lives they were given

into small legends

the Stuff myths are made of

not the myths themselves but the ground

the soil from which Myth springs

 

 

 

© 2020 pamela twining

 


 

1 comment:

  1. birth celebration


    Welcome! Bright good morning -- capacious breaths
    on dew-dropped dawn, shining line of peace adjoined
    in music, movement, beaming celebration

    Time and space give form and substance,
    living world dependent on a circled star for
    light and warmth, for energy to fuel destiny.
    Rich earth has secrets to reveal.
    Radiant seed, planted to expand within,
    only each we may bring to fruition.

    Each personal Solar Return --
    special time for reflection, affirmation,
    remembrance of our selves, our winding journeys.
    Honor gods of good fortune.
    Share sustaining treats, weave beautiful stories.

    Traveling winding paths, we meet,
    become, with familiarity, family, joined in gifts, fears,
    celebrations -- alive to excitement, shining with love.
    Feel your presence as joyful, serene electricity.
    Swept into light, exultant vibrations blend, fuse.
    Warmed by deep blood flow, rhythmic movements
    re- and un- engage -- elaborate symphony,
    notated memory of how we grow.
    Ritual chants blend with merry bells,
    cradling drums, graceful gestures.
    Recombinant winds call timeless tunes,
    luxurious to bask in, out in a world alive.
    Joined in dulcet cheer, we
    call to play, dance the streets, rise in salutation,
    let spirits soar, glide.


    Dear wishes for a future where
    convivial peace abides.
    Happy celebration of your life.

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