Category: Poetry

International Women’s Day 2012: Watch Us Stand Strong

March 8, 2012

Today is International Women’s Day:

I wrote Watch Us Stand Strong in 1994. I’ve shared it here before but felt today was a good day to share it again:

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.

Check here for 10 Ways to Celebrate International Women’s Day. I spent a good part of International Women’s Day outside in my yard enjoying to 70 degree day here on the river. A little time communing with the Great Mother Goddess is always balm to the soul.

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Love Be Not of Reason

February 14, 2012

There’s no better day than Valentine’s Day to share a love poem. I have long been a great fan of romance poets, including Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Edna St. Vincent Millay.

Love Be Not of Reason is from my own journals…

Love Be Not of Reason

Love be not of reason,

No right nor wrong,

Love be of the season

For which there is no song.

No sense be made of desires

That once can cripple

But, the strongest tree

And, bring mere mortal man

Down to his knee.

Who sayeth that love must be so,

Who speak the words

Of Love and Woe

For truly as the sun doth shine

Your touch upon my lips

Be pleasure that is,

But, yours and mine.

Who knows what aching

Upon thy breast

Does bring your soul to lay and rest;

Weary in the arms of love,

That heal the questions

For which there be no answer.

Love be the stars that shine,

In darkest night

Bright in your eyes;

Love be the sun that rises

To seek a new day

Of pleasure in your arms.

Love be the song of ecstasy

When in its throws

We merge as one.

Love be not of reason

No right nor wrong,

Love be of the season

For which there is no song,

But that only of two hearts

That beat as one

In it’s sweet pleasing.

c. Pamela J. Leavey

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Gift Of Life

February 10, 2012

Searching through some old Word docs recently I found some of my poetry that I had put into Word docs from my journals. This one called out to be shared…

Gift Of Life

Love,
Be it an expression,
A word,
A thought,
A feeling;
Used oft by some,
Not by others.
For many it be
The truth that sets,
Them free.
For some it be
The chains,
That binds them.
Love,
To my tenet,
Be my gift
Of life.
For, I am free,
To love,
You;
And, all who touch
My soul
With the clarity
That each expression,
Be my gift
Of life,
To share with joy,
And oft
Forgiveness
In my heart.