For every moon,
there is a dance.
For every dream,
there is a sickness.
Words are a witch's womb and water.
To fill your eyes with fire and sunrise,
face the east.
To get clean,
get naked.
To walk the wet depths,
release your father's fear of drowning.
Go under.
Go under.
Go under.
There is more than one way to breathe.
Note: Going to Water is the name of a Cherokee purification ritual.
Inspired by Freddie Mercury, Marian offers up some thought -provoking prompt / questions at Real Toads. I chose to work with "how you think about your stage and how and why you have put yourself on one."
Friday, November 14, 2014
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- Maude Lynn
- Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. ---Flannery O'Connor
16 comments:
Love it, as always!! Hope you have a great weekend, MZ!!
I love it even more reading your notes...
Exquisite! I love the ways you share your heart's breath.
holy hell this is intense MZ! yes, yes.
This strips down on so many levels, Mama Zen...effective.
My goodness, the last line is powerful. Also "to get clean, get naked." The most profound statements are often the most obvious, with a subtle twist that features a bit of embedded extra meaning. "Release your father's fear" is also sage advice that sounds so simple but is really probably much more complex than it seems. Outside the prompt, I see this as a childhood molestation story; the only way for the girl (probably all grown up by now) to survive ("breathe") is to kill herself.
So real because we often carry other's fears with us.
The last line is a wisdom we all should know.
Excellent.
Amazing..
Beautiful and strangely Zen. Attagirl, Mama Zen.
Beautiful words of wisdom. But ain't no way y'all want to see me get naked! ;-)
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This reminds me some of William Stafford, who wrote a poem a day all his life and had a bone-deep bond with his Native American ear and sensibility. Walking out onto the performing stage is always a surrender -- to get to what Emerson called "abandonment to the nature of things." To live that Yes so wildly and precariously. Even after one, like Freddie, has "gone under."
Purification through water, fire and word. Just perfect, MZ.
Wise words, sound advice to go under...in all meanings ...deeper. ~ Thanks, MZ.
Deep and intense. Love it.
This sounds like fine advice on writing. or sex, or ...
I hear "I Zimbra" by the Talking Heads, somehow, in that refrain ~
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