The In-Breath of the Year
A Blessed Ostara to one and all...
Fling yourself facefirst into the beauty of the new season!
Today I give you one of my favorite poems, a piece that has had particularly personal and intense meaning for me as the season has shifted from the stillness of Winter into the burgeoning green riot of Spring.
I will not die an unlived life.
I will not live in fear
of falling or catching fire.
I choose to inhabit my days,
to allow my living to open me,
to make me less afraid,
more accessible;
to loosen my heart
until it becomes a wing,
a torch, a promise.
I choose to risk my significance,
to live so that which came to me as seed
goes to the next as blossom,
and that which came to me as blossom,
goes on as fruit.
~Dawna Markova
Oh, that's lovely. Thank you!
Posted by: michele | March 20, 2008 at 08:46 AM
Thank you. This captures what this equinox means to me perfectly.
Posted by: Sjh | March 20, 2008 at 02:41 PM
What a lovely poem!!!
Joyous Ostara to you!!
Posted by: mama kelly | March 20, 2008 at 02:48 PM
very powerful, thank you!
Posted by: angela | March 20, 2008 at 05:37 PM
thank you for this.
Posted by: chicory | March 24, 2008 at 11:07 AM