Dorothy Walters: Still Life

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Still Life

by Dorothy Walters
(1928 - ) Timeline

Original Language
English

     The rose that no longer blooms in the garden,
     blooms inside her whole body, among the veins
     and organs and the skeleton.
               -- Linda Gregg

A hidden blossoming.
Petals flaming beneath the skin.
And a softness pressing,
as delicate as the mouth
of a blind lover.

Each movement,
each quiet gesture
awakens
a rosary in the blood.
Was it desire
which brought her to this moment,
this arrival at source,
or was it merely a need
to be still, to be richly fed
from this fountain
of dark silence.

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

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Themes

Garden

Lotus

Lover and Beloved

Rose

Silence

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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