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Ruined by Your Beauty

by Dorothy Walters
(1928 - ) Timeline

Original Language
English
Secular or Eclectic
Contemporary

First, you cleansed me,
arriving as fire, as savage flood.

Next you tore me,
your panther tooth,
your lion claw,
limbs scattering like grass
in the garden of a great wind.

Then you made love to me,
night after night of unendurable
torment and passion.

Ruined by your beauty,
I have vanished,
fled into the nothingness
of who I am.

 

 

-- from Unmasking the Rose: A Record of a Kundalini Initiation, by Dorothy Walters

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Themes

  Fire
  Garden
  Lover and Beloved
  Night
 


Recommended Books


A Cloth of Fine Gold: Poems of the Inner Journey, by Dorothy Walters
Kundalini Rising: Exploring the Energy of Awakening, by Dorothy Walters / Lawrence Edwards, others
Marrow of Flame : Poems of the Spiritual Journey, by Dorothy Walters
Unmasking the Rose: A Record of a Kundalini Initiation, by Dorothy Walters

 

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