Trying Something New

I haven't used this blogging site for a long time, but I recently decided to put myself out there a little more. I've never really tried to sell or share my art, or even really show it, unless someone happened to wander through my house. I've only once before the last year or so ever shared a poem that I've written. But after recent discussions with my sister and my spiritual community about how my art and poetry is really the closest expression of my soul, I feel like I've missed an opportunity to share myself by holding it all so close.

So, I'm going to start using this blog for sharing the fruits of my creativity. Today, I'm posting a poem I wrote in the past two weeks. I've been thinking a lot about how I envision this planet evolving and how the future of the planet will be connected to feminine energy. That's been making me think about women as the midwives of a peaceful age. So that's the origin of this poem. Feel free to use the discussion link to chat.

Midwives of the New Millennium

When they try to control our wombs

they are hoping to forestall the coming

of the age of peace by making

the issue of those wombs in their own warlike image

But the midwives of the new millennium

will not birth the coming age

from our wombs or in any way from

from the loins of the patriarchal past

 

The midwives of the new millennium

Hear the songs of the spinning cosmos

that portend the shift that Gaia

longs to see spring from the void into form

 

They remember the days when

the goddess sang through the siren’s call

and was silenced … feared by the cunning Odysseus

giving rise to the alpha kings and eons of war

 

The midwives of the new millennium have held

Those siren songs…  bestowed by the cosmos

within their beating hearts awaiting

the cosmic shift that will welcome their song

 

The midwives of the new millennium

will gather the swirling songs from Gaia’s cosmos

birthing the new millennium from their own

wise hearts resounding in harmony and love