Wednesday, August 22, 2007
The Rose Opening (poem)
The Rose Opening
Listen . . . . listen . . . .
can you hear those honey drops fall
from the mouth of god?
Can you feel the rose
opening
in your spine?
Whatever you were before
now you are only this.
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Do you want
words
or feelings?
Or are they melted together
like the love streaming
from your lover’s eye
meeting the love
pouring from your own?
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Does anyone else
feel this love?
Like the breath
of a thousand rose gardens
dreaming that they are petals
crushed in god’s hand.
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Is this from this world
or another . . . .
do these words have meanings
or are they mere love cries
from that one
come to kiss you awake again.
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God has a thousand names
and I but one tongue
to tell them.
Some call me a wastrel,
some a wanton.
All I want
is to dance this dance
we do so well together.
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Are you looking for the goddess?
she is
the lash on god’s eye,
the invisible hand
stroking your velvet flesh alive,
the pearl
you found under your tongue
this morning.
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All this time together
and still you have not told me
who I am,
where this journey leads.
Dorothy Walters
August 22, 2007
