International Women's Day
Dedicated to all women on March 8, 2006, International Women's Day. May we each, in our own way, find strength in the nourishment of our minds, our hearts and in our own bodies.
Feminine Essence
Amazed,
I view these unbound breasts
Mounds of flesh and blood
and milk--
food for man--
Marveling
that for all their use and wear
I'd never truly realized
the ecstasy of them
for myself.
In the shower--
even at perimenopausal forty-four,
I have sometimes seen the opaque liquid
they still secrete
in pearl-droplets,
and I've wondered...
but never dared..
until overcome by the hunger
of never having known...tasted...
I gazed transfixed,
unbound and daring
gently lifting
nervously craving
yearning
stretching forward aslant
beyond my own flesh.
Head bowed in reverential ceremony
and for the first time
tasted the essence
of myself.
--Pamela Dawn
posted by ShiningDawn @ 12:03 AM
3 Comments:
vivid, brave, compelling.
Wonderful, friend. Thank you for sharing of the essence of your radiant soul.
Pamela, I am finally getting around to posting on this message, trying to find words worthy of being added as a comment to this beautiful statement. I don't have those words, and maybe they don't exist. There is only the image of you naked before the world, in all ways, creating this powerful circuit between breast and tongue that brings you to completion, that opens the path and your heart to motherhood at its deepest level, the one at which, by being mother to yourself, you become one with the Mother of all. I am,on so many levels, in awe of you, my dear friend.
I just read this again, and am reeling, lightheaded, at its power. Have I told you today I love you? Well, it is without any doubt that I do.
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