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Timeline (1928 - )

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Scars of Rapture

Themes

Dawn

Fire

Food

Light

Womb

Recommended Books

	Marrow of Flame : Poems of the Spiritual Journey, by Dorothy Walters
	Unmasking the Rose: A Record of a Kundalini Initiation, by Dorothy Walters

Shams, I have done everything I know
so this would not happen.

You came into my life
like a wing of fire,
possessing and possessed
by something not seen.

When you first spoke
my books turned to clay,
and my throat closed
around a lost syllable.

Your eyes burned over me,
leaving scars of rapture,
my spirit became a field
swept clean by flame.

Can you think how it was
that morning I woke first,
and found you,
an unbound mystery
by my side.

Or the day we did not eat,
but drank from one another's light
till we were ribboned by dusk.

The air here holds only emptiness,
a little dust stirring.
I think there will be wind tonight,
and the camels will cry out
in their sleep.

-- from Marrow of Flame : Poems of the Spiritual Journey, by Dorothy Walters

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