Ascent

Ascent

 

Rise from the ground my beloved.

Shake off the dust of your anguish.

Stretch out your aching body of longing.

Stand and behold the grandeur of realization,

The glory of becoming.

Lay upon the earth no more my love,

Your tears have fed the microbes of forgiveness in the soil of transformation,

Weep no more of shame.

Your preciously soft skin has felt the touch of this soil of sorrow.

Your body has absorbed the gentle and steady pulse of the earth mother.

You are rested and ready.

Liberated and purified.

Breathe in the sweet air of freedom,

Raise your hands high and reach for the loving sun.

Ark your body back and let your hair feel the kiss of gravity as you engross the magnitude of space and time.

Now run free.

Run across the meadow of your serenity.

Skip through the flowers innate from your virtue.

Smell the aroma of possibility.

See the colors that set you free from bondage of pity.

Now slow to walk.

Wander through the forest of you uniqueness,

Every branch is a thought born from your soul that rises strong and still.

Embrace every branch.

Even the dead of wrong choices.

Release this dead into the wind of a new day.

Let the wind cast it away,

Breaking it free from the clutches of your insecurities.

Let it tickle your being and dance through your tree of personality.

For this wind is your laughter.

Laugh the shame and scars of the past away.

Remember there is always light through the shadows in the valley of your healing.

There’s always a pure and truly beautiful light.

You are my light,

Shine through my most cherished.

Shine on.

 

Reviews

[Dayran]

To create awareness of every impulse is a full-time career. Most people would turn parts of that into an ideal and attempt to live it. It is one way to move.

If a person left open their mind to the field of all possibilities, they will be attended to by the earth, the trees, insects, anima and people you meet. All these forces of the earth will built a nest in your body-mind and make the person you will be. Its a life lived with the all. A refreshing poem by one in love with life.

[Liza]

truly uplifting
the energy you put forth on the page
is a gift
thank you for sharing.

[...]

. these words talk to me ... they heal, they inspire, they mend and they're assertive ... a beautiful piece of poetry ... and i absolutely loved how it ends ... those two words say so much ...

[Christine]

I absolutely love the structure of this-- the shorter lines are kind of like a breath of fresh air from the longer, wordier lines.
The imagery is fantastic, I really enjoyed reading this!

[I Cast a Shadow]

I really like the imagery of this but it seems to be redundant. The flow of it seems too repetitious. It seems like you were not sure when to end it and so you kept going without revising. I really love the imagery though. Keep writing!

[An owl on the moon]

Like the wildness of a butterfly set free from her chrysalis, here there is that wondrous sense of rising... of freedom and joy.. What a beautiful expression, so like a sweet song.