audio poetry: i suppose we are here for each other (2:12)
by rachel
i suppose we are here for each other
Categories: audio, inspiration, love, poetry, spirituality, transformation, Words Divinely Wrought • Tags: consciousness
Category Archives: love
prayer of the children by three dog night (video 3:22)
by rachel
Thank you, Julie, for pointing me toward this powerful tribute. The featured image on the homepage grid is a 17th-century sculpture on a tomb in the Notre Dame Cathedral in Amiens, France. The Weeping Angel (L’Ange de Pleureur), by Nicholas Blasset, was popularized on postcards during WWII and often carried by British soldiers.
Categories: inspiration, love, spirituality, video • Tags: life, prayer, sandy hook, three dog night
when only wings remain
by rachel
The energies are settling, so (not surprisingly), today’s poem presented itself in rhyming form after being inspired by this backyard photo. Tomorrow, I’ll tell you a bit more about what I have been up to for five weeks. Stay true, stay clear, my precious friend. Pray tell! What seer doth divine In soggy tea leaves, curdled wine These ancient rhythms pulse, now bore In loosening of the golden cord ~ A harlot, a jackass, a tune unsounded The tale of […]
Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, love, personal growth, planetary shifts, poetry, spirituality, transformation • Tags: consciousness, empowerment, mysticism
reminding you now and forever: you are the river of love’s tenderness (video 4:29)
by rachel
Some lovely Words Divinely Wrought updates are waiting in the wings… …though I am right now giving my attention to local happenings. I will post the updates when I can focus on them as they deserve. In the meantime, please take four minutes and 29 seconds to visit (or revisit) this video rendition of my poem, “you are the river of love’s tenderness.” Just in case you forgot or have entertained even a moment of doubt. When you reach out […]
Categories: inspiration, love, planetary shifts, poetry, spirituality, video • Tags: awakening, peace
september energy forecast from lee harris (video 15:56)
by rachel
While I finish up the latest update on the Words Divinely Wrought Global Poetry-Share, here’s a comforting dose of balance, calm, and wisdom from Lee Harris. I love his no-nonsense, quiet, intelligent way of speaking about the larger energies that are now affecting everyone, albeit in different ways. Definitely worth investing 15+ minutes of your day or night; then we’ll return to the poetry plantings now transpiring around the globe. (Archived posts may be found toward the bottom of the […]
Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, love, personal growth, planetary shifts, spirituality, transformation, video • Tags: higher consciousness
and now i am left with nothing but the truth
by rachel
and now i am left with nothing but the truth that my only constant has been a willingness to stand naked and alone my sole virtue laid bare on life’s platter, borne of a lingering sense that there is more to this holy dance than the steady chock of the metronome my own beating heart, frangible though it may be has echoed beyond time in a rapturous calypso, flooding my ears with birdsong melody and the night cry of the […]
Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, love, personal growth, planetary shifts, poetry, spirituality, transformation • Tags: awakening
40,000 norwegians respond with love (video; 2:37)
by rachel
In Oslo and other sites around Norway, 40,000 people gathered with folksinger Lillebjørn Nilsen and others to raise their voices in love. Standing in the rain, together they sang the 1970s-era peace song, Children of the Rainbow, which had been described as “Marxist propaganda” by a man now on trial for murdering 77 Norwegians, mostly teenagers, last July. According to UK-based Reuters/Guardian, the crowd chose the song because it “extols the type of multicultural society (the accused) has said he […]
Categories: inspiration, love, planetary shifts, video • Tags: change, new paradigm
know that you are loved, no matter how large your ears may be (video 2:30)
by rachel
If you have ever felt unloved, judged, bullied, forsaken, or abandoned, it’s safe now to let it go and allow yourself to partake of a greater Love. No need to pin the sentiment on any particular person living here or beyond. The embrace might emanate from nature, from the animal kingdom,from the All-There-Is, the Goddess, Quan Yin, Mother Mary, Our Lady of Guadalupe, or from a distant star you remember ever so faintly yet so very well. If you prefer, […]
Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, love, video
now tenderly rendered in video: you are the river of love’s tenderness (4:29)
by rachel
If you had the pleasure of viewing the video presentation of my piece, “this fragile web: why every moment matters,” you know the skill and grace with which Jeff T (MerhlinsPlace) weaves deeply felt words, images, and music. Jeff and I have collaborated once again, bringing a new dimension to my poetry, “you are the river of love’s tenderness,” which appears in text form in the post directly below this one. Jeff’s ability to elevate my healing journey of personal […]
Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, love, personal growth, poetry, spirituality, transformation, video • Tags: new paradigm, peace, unity
you are the river of love’s tenderness
by rachel
I began this post days ago — telling you of a recent fall that slammed my sacrum into the floor and set me on a healing journey (Again?!?!?!) to recalibrate and realign deeply entrenched physical, emotional, and spiritual trauma patterns I took on in a car crash nine years ago this month. Telling you the facts of the story was just not working; when this piece emerged in its stead, I was finally able to exhale. When I later stumbled […]
Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, love, personal growth, poetry, spirituality, transformation
prayer for radical patience
by rachel
For every moment I have waited, Let me wait ten thousand moments more! Let me delight in the glory of the waiting And the exquisite expectancy it tenders. For every instance I knew the now was near Yet for reasons untold it was not mine to receive, Let me know that divinity still presides over a vast and loving universe And that patience rides a chariot whose name is endless joy. May trust and courage override the niggling fears that […]
Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, love, personal growth, poetry, spirituality, transformation • Tags: empowerment, higher consciousness, patience, prayer
have you forgotten you are creation’s favorite lover?
by rachel
As some of you know, I am never sure when rhyming poetry will show up, though it often brings with it a consolidating, smoothing energy after periods of static, confusion, or upheaval. Since I consider my poetic work to be divinely inspired, I simply let the words lead the way — and today, they want to rhyme! If this speaks to you, you may also enjoy the video featuring my poem, “What If An Angel Took Hold Of Your Hand?” […]
Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, love, personal growth, poetry, spirituality, transformation • Tags: angels, awakening, faith, higher consciousness
thank you, peoplepassion, for making a video of my poem, ‘what if an angel took hold of your hand?’
by rachel
Finally, some sensitive and talented folks created a youtube video featuring one of my poems, and I am thrilled! If you did not see “what if an angel took hold of your hand?” when I posted it on January 27, 2011, you can find it here. The full text is also included at the youtube site. The peoplepassion channel is definitely worth a visit, as well; they have produced a powerful series of videos to heighten awareness of the drought […]
Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, love, personal growth, planetary shifts, poetry, spirituality, transformation, video • Tags: angels, earthangels, empowerment, wisdom
warrior love vow, et cetera
by rachel
This seems a curious post after being away for a while, but it would not be denied. No, I have not met the outer masculine being to whom these words may be directed, and as usual, it may be me communicating with other beloved parts of myself. (Or perhaps this poetic drumbeat will call him in, eh?) As well, wildland fire season is a-roar here in the American Southwest, raindrops are few and far between, and I admit having watched […]
Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, love, personal growth, poetry, spirituality, transformation • Tags: divine union, empowerment
let it go: now the barren gives way to the blossom
by rachel
now the barren gives way to the blossom if you but untie the limp strings of your torn and tender heart and let it go the mountainous terrain of the past heaves and crumbles, and in its stead, soft valleys arise in a series of gently rolling caresses, if you but sink to your knees and assume the holy posture of acceptance and let it go the moment you allow yourself to be fully fed, you acknowledge the depth of […]
Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, love, personal growth, poetry, spirituality, transformation • Tags: awakening, divine union, higher consciousness, mysticism, opening heart
gorgeous video of hafiz poem: some fill with each good rain (1:33)
by rachel
Obviously, I have not been inspired to post anything new for awhile — although the Universe within and without have certainly been afoot (or is that “afeet”?) So that you don’t feel forgotten, I offer up this short-but-oh-so-sweet video of a poem by Persian poet and Sufi mystic Hafiz, uploaded by Millionofus. Be sure to turn your sound up; it takes a bit of time before the Yanni music kicks in. Joyous May arrival and Happy Beltane to you!
Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, love, poetry, spirituality, transformation, video • Tags: awakening, mysticism
can you remember what you chose to forget?
by rachel
For reasons that seem unimportant now, The memory of limitless existence slipped my mind Loosened from the landscape surrounding my being And lodged itself in a deep cave of forgetting Ah Yes, now I remember… The agreements drawn up and codified, Shuttled from lifetime to lifetime on trains endlessly circling the roundhouse Came up for review, And I marked one, then another, with the time/date stamp of The Now Declaring them null and void, and afire with the passion of […]
Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, love, personal growth, poetry, spirituality, transformation • Tags: ascension, awakening, higher consciousness, wisdom
when love challenges you
by rachel
I think I’ve mentioned this before, but I currently have a concept — Be Open to Love: Words of Well-Being to Awaken Your Heart — going through a market testing process. Here’s an excerpt that seems to reflect the energy of the week: time will tell whether this material eventually makes its way into full-fledged bookdom. (No hearts or flowers in this art: the painting is known as “Ecstasy” or “Frenzy of Exultations,” and seemed a fitting accompaniment to the […]
Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, love, personal growth, spirituality, transformation • Tags: higher consciousness, opening heart
hold on, let go: finding balance in an upheaved world
by rachel
How does one speak of the nature of time? Of the unriddled riddle, the unmetered rhyme? What lies now upon us with the greatest profusion Brings great knowing to some and to others, confusion. You beseech as you wonder, you ask without pause What are the rules, you implore! Where, the laws? Is there nothing but nothing that one can rely on? Oh yes, to be sure, but even more new to try on! You see it yourself, what once […]
Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, love, planetary shifts, poetry, spirituality, transformation • Tags: change, higher consciousness
in the silent moment, all begins and nothing ends
by rachel
This verse made its way out after President Obama announced there would be a moment of silence for the victims of the Arizona shooting. A moment of silence: it honors, is reverent Yet perhaps now, today, ever-so-slightly irrelevant In the silence is wisdom, reflection, and prayer Yet also ambivalence (shrug shoulders) who cares? A moment so brief and then back to distraction A fleeting outpouring then default contraction – The pain may be numbed, the sorrow diminished Feelings reined in […]
Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, love, personal growth, poetry, spirituality, transformation • Tags: barack obama, new paradigm, Tuscon shootings moment of silence
choose clear, choose love: more traditional rhyming verse for the new year
by rachel
I am regularly delighted (though not totally surprised any more) when this traditional rhyming verse form insists on making itself known. The mood always leads me back to artists of the Pre-Raphaelite period, but since I am no student of poetry, I am not quite sure what else to call it. This one seems kin to the 2011 Prayer for Wholeness (below). The past now sealed, it bears no weight On future’s yield nor journey’s fate For what once was […]
Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, love, poetry • Tags: love poetry, rhyming verse, traditional verse
making love to god: a journey of spiritual passion
by rachel
After reposting Part One of my unpublished manuscript, Making Love to God, I’ve chosen to link up here with all the material. This “sticky post” will remain at the top of the blog for a while; new posts may also appear directly below. Your Comments on this work are most appreciated. Here is Part One Here is Part Two Here is Part Three Here is Part Four Here is Part Five Here is Part Six Here is Part Seven Here […]
Categories: inspiration, love, making love to god, personal growth, prose poetry, spirituality, transformation • Tags: divine union, ecstatic union, higher consciousness, sacred union
divine union of the sacred masculine and feminine: making love to god
by rachel
The experience of divine, ecstatic union within each of us has long captivated me. Now, this healing at individual, spiritual, emotional, and social/cultural levels, seems to carry more import than ever before. I’m going to offer up once again my unpublished manuscript, “Making Love to God,” for those who may now be especially drawn to this material. The eight-part work has its own Category in the Archives link in the right-hand sidebar, if you wish to jump ahead. You […]
Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, love, making love to god, prose poetry, spirituality, transformation • Tags: divine feminine, divine masculine, divine union, ecstatic union, mysticism, spiritual relationship
one more day: unremitting faith for the fearless
by rachel
one more day and when it felt as though love had left the room there was nowhere to turn but within, so I fell in love all over again with the essence of god that is me and there found peace enough for one more day and when every cupboard was bare, the only nourishment to be found grew in the lush garden of my soul, and when I had partaken of the juices of my own heartblossoms i was […]
Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, love, personal growth, poetry, spirituality, transformation • Tags: empowerment, faith
what i need now: kadoish kadoish kadoish, ancient hebrew chant for protection (video)
by rachel
According to sound healer/teacher Deborah Van Dkye, who is heard here on her CD, Traveling the Sacred Sound Current, this ancient chant of exaltation “embodies the highest of frequencies which extend the grace and holy protection to the chanter…(and) sets up a resonance with Divine Love energies in whose presence lesser forces cannot remain.” summerrain7373 added the image and posted the video on youtube.
Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, love, making love to god, planetary shifts, spirituality, transformation, video • Tags: divine love, God, hebrew chant, mysticism, prayer for protection
this battle has ended; prepare for love’s outpourings
by rachel
I love wandering through the archives of my blog and noting the unmistakable, recurring cycles of my journey. This piece appeared in late 2009, without a name to call its own. This time around, it seems ready to don the title words that I spoke at the tail end of a long and liberating bodywork session last week. Truly, earth and heaven are closer together now than they have ever been. this battle has ended your regrets and disappointments let […]
Categories: inspiration, love, personal growth, planetary shifts, poetry, spirituality, transformation
she believes herself to be alone
by rachel
ostensibly unaware m’lady plucks three roses from their thorny roost gingerly unpeels each peach-blushed petal lavishes in an intoxicant aroma a clamoring of angels fills the sky she believes herself to be alone incessantly introspective m’lady probes without pause the castle within draws back beribboned drapes to spy upon lingering assumptions “Whose walls are these?” she wonders the surrounding hillside garners no notice she believes only the flutterings of her own heart incontrovertibly insouciant m’lady gazes reluctantly toward unseen apparitions […]
Categories: inspiration, love, poetry, spirituality, transformation • Tags: angels, divine union, opening heart
wear purple, my ass! reclaiming my personal manifesto of limitless liberation
by rachel
Still in true retrograde mode, here’s a revisit to an earlier emanation of exhilaration. (Yeah, that’s a boatload of alliteration, so sue me.) All given with a wink and a nod to my wise and magical friend from New Mexico, who knows how to kick my transformational butt when I need it most. If you woke up each morning and declared this vow three times in front of your mirror, with feeling, you could doubtless skip the coffee… i will: […]
Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, love, personal growth, planetary shifts, poetry, spirituality, transformation • Tags: empowerment, higher consciousness, manifesto, personal growth
romantic spiritual love: i am you and you are me
by rachel
In every night and every dream The stage unfolds the selfsame scene: You sigh, you pause, you hold my gaze The clouds depart, then next the haze The elemental Act begins Stage left, the angels saunter in They stand, alight, with wings outspread They need speak naught, their holy bread And wine pour forth without a word A sweeter silence n’ere yet been heard Your eyes embrace my ready soul Your touch, your skin pure spirit gold Your fingers stroke […]
Categories: love, making love to god, poetry • Tags: divine union, love poem, spiritual relationship
as if we can handle yet more wisdom of surrender, acceptance, and letting go…
by rachel
Sometimes it all feels and sounds like a broken record. An endless loop that intones repeatedly: Let go of what no longer serves you. Surrender more deeply than you surrendered last time. Accept what is; then surrender some more. And oh, by the way, remember to let go so you can let go of remembering. I certainly know the drill by now – and I’m guessing some of you do, too. But I admit I still find myself intermittently squawking: […]
Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, love, personal growth, planetary shifts, spirituality, transformation • Tags: ascension, awakening, higher consciousness
what there is to love about a man: heart
by rachel
Today, this excerpt from my out-of-print bok, What There Is To Love About A Man (Sourcebooks, 1999). If you’re feeling the desire to more fully appreciate any man you know, or to connect with your inner Divine Masculine no matter what kind of body you inhabit, check out the “Men” category of this site via the “Browse My Archives by Category” box in the right-hand sidebar. Oh! To feel the beating of a man’s heart! To trace the rutted pathways […]
Categories: inspiration, love, men, prose poetry, transformation • Tags: divine masculine, heart
true love’s gifts (classic): these are the words that fit the day
by rachel
Thanks to the divine ram0singhal, who brought this poem of mine back into my awareness at the perfect moment in time. I originally wrote and posted it at the tail end of 2009, but these sentiments are always in season, are they not? The Lovers, by Pablo Picasso true love’s gifts Here are your gifts, sweet blessed child, Now laid upon you fair and wild You shall love, be loved, in equal measure Gather pockets filled with earthly pleasure Step […]
Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, love, poetry, spirituality • Tags: divine union, goddess, mysticism, relationships, spiritual relationship
