reclaiming MEDUSA

[Whitebird Sings]

goddesses demure have left the building
we want to play in a provocative way

ours is a passion that arouses

an expansion of selves
rich
wild
swelling
ripening
flowing

more than the goddesses of love you have known before

we are powerful women

reclaiming

unruly!!

[Whitebird Sings]

gibran has entered
and the goddesses
embrace
caress

the winds of heaven dance between us
and our union
is as a moving sea
between our shores

"no g,
there are no spaces in our togetherness,
not necessary --
neither do we fear time apart -- time alone"

"enough talk
come here and melt with us --
into the wind"

[Whitebird Sings]

"you" will not define us

you call out
we turn
but we do not answer

we refute the names
you've shackled us with

do you see the serpents dancing?
do you see the spiders weaving?
do you see the eagles in flight?
THIS is who we are

embrace us
or
run!

[Whitebird Sings]

you can desire us
you can never possess us

i will yield to you
but you can not own me

and i of you

[WIREMAN]

SNAKES ON EVERYTHING
my memories 5 & dime
halloween mask
Medusa
greek myth
mass of confusion
I think not!

[Whitebird Sings]

we call to you Medusa
priestess of Athena
and to your Sisters.

we call to you Mothers
asking for you to grace us
with your wisdom.

we ask how it is that so many
that call themselves human
have a fascination with the abominable --
gratuitious cruelty,
execrable crimes
committed by those who feign to lead us.
we ask how it is that so few rise up against what is abominable.

our knowing tells us
that it is time for all who have the spirit of women within them
to rise,
our knowing tells us
that it is time for sovereign female wisdom
to take voice,
to take flight,
to replace what is
with what must be.

we call to you Medusa
and to your Sisters
in the year of 9
and the land will swim with snakes
and the life force will be once more --
stopping what is,
reclaiming what was.

silent no more
we rise and
circle round.

[mnaz]

your gender bias is clearly showing,

and rightly so.

[mnaz]

stopping what was,
reclaiming what is..

[judih]

humanity bias
inching over the line

give more, love more, feel more
want more

healing process to grow
solidarity to stand
minds to be shared
decisions to be owned

we're showing our bias
we who believe that pain can be reduced
and no one would mind

we're showing our hope
we who yearn for understanding to increase
so all might benefit

humanity bias
all in favour,
say Aye!

[mnaz]

Aye see.

Forgive my puckish ways.
Seems I just go around seething,
spoiling for a fight, any fight.

I had peace, and little understanding.
Then I stopped to increase "understanding".
Now I have more understanding and little peace.
So far, I can't have both.
Ignorance was bliss.
Don't eat of the tree.
And so it goes...

[judih]

that tree started a forest of weeds
and there we were
discovering potions and berries
tasting, sniffing, wandering
till we couldn't see the forest

and there we were
still ravenous, still exploring
with each overturned stone
a ginseng root
with each swinging vine
a species that redefines species

too much to understand
so meanwhile, have some more fruit

[mnaz]

Why not?
I could solve physical hunger, at least.
For now.

Why not?

[Whitebird Sings]

solving physical hunger mnaz!
what a beautiful start.

why not indeed.

the means we have,
but not the will en masse.

there are the j's
who understand
and respond
to sensitive dependence.

we call to others.

the purpose of this thread.

[Whitebird Sings]

see the work of women
and you see our hearts

so it is
with men

we must bring back
what has been suppressed,
oppressed...
in all of us!

together
we set each other free

like this
http://www.ms.foundation.org/wmspage.cfm?parm1=413

or like this
http://canadiancerberus.blogspot.com/20 ... or-me.html

medusa
hear our s.o.s.!

[Whitebird Sings]

the sirens
sang,
promised much.
many came,
now they lay on rocks
at ocean's end.
just wanted company,
that's all.