Poetry Wednesday 03/18/09

Call
by Alla Renee Bozarth

There is a new sound

of roaring voices in the deep

and light-shattered rushes in the

heavens.

The mountains are coming alive,

the fire-kindled mountains

moving again to reshape the earth.

It is we sleeping women

waking up in a darkened world,

cutting the chains from off our bodies

with our teeth,

stretching our lives over the slow

earth,

seeing , moving , breathing in the

vigor

that commands us to make all things

new.

It has been said that while the women

sleep

the earth shall sleep.

But listen! we are waking up and

rising,

and soon our sister will know her 

strength.

The earth-moving day is here.

We women wake to move in fire.

The earth shall be remade.

(I found this little gem in the anthology "at our core: women writing about power" by Sandra Haldeman Martz. Click on the poet's name to read more about her.)

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