voice of a woman

wisdom night,
singing in silence,
when i knew
hunger, too;
and the winter world
crying like blizzards.

a book of stone,
its words moved me,
stars spiralled above,
called to love;
as a hungry world
howled aloneness.

the feel of truth,
hewn from suffering,
tempered steel
solid, real;
in a darkened world
dying in Darfur.

the godless globe,
facing the goddess moon,
indigo dawn,
late, autumn;
my Mother, the world
orphaned your book-stones.

One Response to “voice of a woman”

  1. Áine MacDermot Says:

    This is true… including us. We are stardust… as that old Joni Mitchell song goes. You know the one - Woodstock.

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