The Awakening of the
Mother Heart
by Antoinette Chavez
This poem is dedicated to my sister Ruth
Marie Luna Parodi and to Jesse Read for teaching me how to focus, and
the power of if you want it bad enough, you just do it. To get the best
teachers learn everything you can, and focus on completion.
The awakening of the mother heart all
over the
world a day of remembrance
This is the wesak celebration... The full moon in Scorpio
The festival of the Buddha lighting up our soul like tiny lanterns
We carry a myriad of lights within our cells, our bodies
Our ability to be the lights in this world
Or our ability to be the nothingness we are in the dark
So out of darkness, comes the light
If we allow ourselves to shine these lights
We are within ourselves... Countless beings of limitless possibilities
Awaiting to love, and be loved
And hoping for the miracle to become that love
In the long run, that is all we need... It is as simple as that
The great healer being Forgiveness and Compassion
I first learned about compassion... From my sister, Ruth Marie Luna,
La Luna
She is as beautiful as the sound of her name... A haunting melody of
lights
Shining brightly into my little girl heart of remembrance
Me remembering my grandmother as cold as ice
And someone I ran from, and not to
Many pretty memories of grand mother
My own mother, Euphemia, I loved dearly
Although she was not there to teach me the meaning of this word mother
I felt her love like a whisper in the night
She doing more than the best she could
To make sense of this crazy world
Not so easy a paradise for a single mother
She had little to no education
In fact, my grandmother could not read or write at all
And so it goes that I became the writer
The first woman in my family to own her power
And so I have, because of you
Dearest sister
I know the meaning of this word mother... For one reason only,
And these are the memories of you loving me,
Like a little girl - sister - mother
Making me smile as you touched my hands and combed my hair
And made me feel prettier than I've ever felt
Without you I was an awkward, frightened child then
Someone told me once that I must have been shown some kindness
in the madness of my childhood
I stared out from behind my... bitter-sweet dark eyes and said quietly
As I began to recall you loving me like the moon loves the sky
So full of innocence and a pure heart... Healing mine the best you could
Yes it was my sister who taught me the meaning the sun the moon and
the stars
So on this full moon, I call out to you from my star-child heart
And beam these words into your motherhood
I love you So Much
It is as simple as that
And yet more profound than
any complexities
This world seems so lost in and without
the purity of love.
Destruction
Arlene A. "feathers" Gutierrez
A realization has hit my space
About creation and destruction--
First you must eradicate the edifice
Before you can begin construction.
We are all a structure unto our self--
Filled with worries, guilt and fears--
Our rooms are so filled with all our creations
A build-up of many, many years
Time to clean out these filled up rooms--
Time to destroy these beliefs--
Time to recreate trust and faith
Bringing peace and much relief.
