Beneath the Red Cliffs
A gem of wonder. Pause and penetrate to the Core …
by Thomas Davis
for April Chischilly
Beneath red cliffs as first morning light reflects fire
into an impossibly blue sky,
a Navajo woman, aging, calm, long black hair and black eyes
a part of high desert juniper and pinion trees,
walks as beauty stirs backwards and forward in time.
The medicine man in his Hogan’s darkness
sees a woman he doesn’t know through an ancient crystal
handed from medicine man to medicine man
through thousands and thousands of years.
He feels heart-strength, spirit-strength,
sees her facing what is beyond the light’s weaving,
her beauty-song echoing and echoing
into the song of women, the spirit of women
who have forever given birth
and lived through the everyday turmoil of everyday
without flinching, trying to find the courage that is who she is.
Courage weaves a blanket from light out of the woman’s heart
into the texture of red stone.
It rises…
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Posted on August 18, 2019, in Poetry, Reposted from elsewhere. Bookmark the permalink. 14 Comments.
Always excellent! Another blog I must catch up with. 🙂
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Tom hasn’t been around for a while but Ethel has posted several poems and there are also a few non-verbal posts of note.
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Just finished catching up there. Always excellent work. Thanks for getting me started!
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I came across one of the two sites (fourwindowspress and Seasonings) via the other and so they are always linked in my mind.
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I first came across YOU via fourwindows. Saw your icon and was immediately drawn to your blog. Have always been thankful that I followed my instincts. 😊❤️
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Following one’s instincts (as long as they are spirit-based rather than ego-based) is always well advised, in my experience. And I must admit to being influenced by folks’ gravatar/icon. I certainly chose mine with care. (Cancerian to the core. ) Plus I love mystery and ambivalence. 🙂
Help! I’ve had an accident! Call an ambivalence! Oh yes … did I forget to mention I love humour too?
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Hah! 😆 Where would we be without humor? It’d be a droll world without it.
Spiritual intuition, is maybe the right phrase when it comes to gravatar influence.
(You chose yours well – it fits! 🙂 )
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And it works! After all it brought you and me into contact. 😀
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Yes! And now I can’t imagine not knowing you. 😄
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Oh I’m sure that with a little effort … 😀
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Hmmmm….(trying to imagine 🤔)…
Nope, can’t do it. 😃
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😀 😀 😀
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Or I should call it your gravatar, not icon
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Either is fine with me, Betty. 🙂
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