Poem for Spring and Mother's Day--Remember to Honor the Mother Earth this day!

Date:   5/14/2006 3:21:32 AM ( 18 y ago)

As I kneel to put in the seeds in

careful as stitching, I am in love.

You are the bed we all sleep on.

You are the food we eat, the food

we ate, the food we will become.

We are walking trees rooted in you.

You can live thousands of years

undressing in the spring your black

body, your red body, your brown body

penetrated by the rain. Here

is the goddess unveiled,

the earth opening her strong thighs.

Marge Piercy,

"The Common Living Dirt,"

from Stone, Paper, Knife

as reprinted in Heron Dance magazine, Issue 50

http://www.herondance.org  

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