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The First Poem We Hear
The first poem we hear, the first poem we breathe in, memorize, and exhale is our mother’s heartbeat in the womb. It’s poetry in our bloodstream, poetry creating the streaming energy bridge between heart and brain.
Early science knew this perhaps even better than modern science. Ancient Egyptian doctors wrote poems on papyrus, which was then dissolved in a solution and given to patients to drink. It’s fabulous, isn’t it? Drinking poetry for what ails you. Let us return to this practice as quickly as possible!
Even where we are, it’s no surprise that poetry evokes and embodies the Divine Feminine, including the warrior. It was an Irish queen who once defended her homeland by prevailing over her Scandinavian counterpart (male) in a poetry shout-off as the invader waded ashore.
Poetry is love’s body—perfect and imperfect—mother tongue, and heron cry. Poetry is the nickering sound a horse makes, the loon’s cry across the water at dusk. It’s the sound of lapping and rushing and still water. It’s wind in the trees. It’s the face and body you love, the face and body you dream of. It contains cross-dimensional information. It delights us and helps us to live more useful, beneficial, happy lives.
Poetry is healing. If we truly succeed in birthing a new age of global peace and green sensibility, it will be through the resonance and the stories of poetry written by all and told over and over in grateful communities. May the poems you find lodge in you and awaken you.
Evolution in Couplets
Hail cataclysm! At first the single cells
Resist with all their mini-might,
Edgy in a dream of fractals, waking
To an orgy of creaturely life forms.
Imaginal cells channel the new world,
Whisking us through heaven and hell to ourselves
Clumping together after infinite explosions,
Surrendering in a field of riotous blossoming.
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