words and pictures....
November 6, 2010
Like The Sun
I shall always shine
Like the sun
For you.
I shall always stand
Bright and beautiful,
Next to you;
That you may
Receive the benefit,
Of my power.
I shall always shine
Like the sun
For you.
I shall always comfort,
Guide and care,
For you;
That your light
May grow
To protect me.
I shall always shine
Like the sun
For you.
c. Pamela J. Leavey 1997
July 15, 2010
c. Pamela J. Leavey 1993
April 7, 2010
There is an empty space
Where hearts meet in knowing;
That two people share
And fill
Like water and flowers
Together in a vase.
There is a silent place
Where two voices can be heard
Crying out in joy
For love shared,
Becomes the sound
Of the grandest symphony.
c. Pamela J. Leavey
March 8, 2010
Today is International Women’s Day. Given that, I wanted to share a poem I wrote in 1994:
Watch Us Stand Strong Long have we walked
Through the valley of our sadness,
Searching for a way
To end all the madness.
Long have we toiled,
Silent and unnoticed,
Suppressing our knowledge
And our gift to heal the world.
We are large by number,
We are small through the ages,There are few that have spoken,
Few that dare to read
Our pages.
We are mothers,
We are daughters,
We are sisters,
We are friends;
We contain the lifeblood,
And the passion
Of all the universe
In our souls.
We are women,
Full of knowledge,
And beauty;
The Queens of our planet.
We are home now,
Watch us stand strong,
It is time to heal
Our world.
c. Pamela J. Leavey 1994
February 25, 2010
I walk to the beat
Of The Goddess’s drum,
I sing her ancient song;
I call out her name
But, she already knows mine.
I am her sister,
I am her daughter,
She is crone,
I am apprentice.
I feel her heartbeat
In every beat my heart takes;
She speaks to me in my sleep,
She speaks to me when I am awake.
I follow closely in her footsteps
I learn my lessons well;
I have claimed myself as part of her
And she as part of me.
She listens quietly
When I cry out in pain;
She wisely heals my ills.
She gives me hope
By her very purpose
Takes me back where I come from.
I walk to the beat
Of the Goddess’s drum,
I sing her ancient song.
She fills me with her many gifts;
I bless her with my love,
Devotion pure, divine and boundless
For she there is no less.
I am her sister,
I am her daughter,
She is crone,
I am apprentice.
I claim her wisdom
As part of mine,
I share her with my sisters;
For she exists in every woman
Who hears the call of their name;
From hidden place
Thought long lost,
She rises like the sun.
It is the Goddess
In every woman,
Who walks to the beat
Of her drum.
c. Pamela J. Leavey 1997
(Inspired by: When the Drummers Were Women
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