warrior (soul)stice ::

from tumblr. artist unknown

light is laconic, now, and dark is long, and all darkness is a womb if we allow it to be, that dark and secret place where sacred becomes you.

i love this child because she is how i want to be. tender :: fierce. staunchly unafraid. a surprising warrioress full of, as shawnacy marie kiker says, her life voice, her own strange and woven music:

when

the fear-voice grows small

like an echo

or a photograph from atop a distant hill

50 years ago,

and when

the joy, and the life voice grow strong

and near

and full of strange woven music-

turbulent and prophetic . . .

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(shawnacy marie kiker) 

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she has sown me in the earth.
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i am sown.
rooted.
i gather strength from my (commune)ity and like a warrioress, i rise: unafraid, and strong, and tall, and made to be seen.

i will press through the unseen and silent portal until, until

i fall before grace.

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