Journey to the Meaning of Love
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From Rhiannon's Dance:
“What will ye, my mirror?”
she sang as the sun rose.
“Show me myself both
the dark and the light.
All of eternity rests in our balance
The sun to my left and
the moon to my right.
The sun to your right and
the moon to your left,
You bathe me in beauty,
then punish with pain.
Before you I’m naked,
my spirit is humble,
I choose to forgive you
again and again.
For life is a wheel, Love,
life is our spiral
And as we go out, we also go in,
Till up from our deep dream
we wake and remember
That what seems now outside,
we saw first within.
What will ye, my mirror,
the truth of our oneness?
Show me myself, both
the dark and the light.
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About the Book
Journey to the Meaning of Love offers a collection of poems that follow the progress of a soul’s quest to understand and come to terms with romantic love and the nature of the heart. They appear in four sections, beginning with experiences and observations of love as desire, yearning, gratification or pain, moving to a more detached awareness of human interactions and needs, evolving to a deeper understanding and acceptance of the balance of opposites which leads ultimately to the recognition of love as a spiritual path, resulting in compassionate union that expresses Divine Love for all that is.
The poems come in a variety of styles from rhyme to free verse, humor to philosophy, sonnet to folksong. The mutable Muse has a voice that is sometimes Celtic, modern, Elizabethan. The subjects are personal and universal.
The author hopes the reader finds many that relate to their own experience, takes comfort and discovers new pathways and meanings on this poetic journey.
About the Author
Shellie Enteen, BA, RA, LMBT, is an ordained Reverend, astrologer, aromatherapist, speaker, educator and bodyworker. She found herself exploring the Spiritual Path after a visit to Santa Barbara in 1975 and has continued on, accompanied by her Muse who frequently prompts her to express insights in poetic form.
Shellie received her BA in English Literature from NYU and over the years has published many articles and poems in magazines. She is a regular columnist on Aromatherapy in “Massage Today” and is on the Board of the National Association for Holistic Aromatherapy whose Aromatherapy Journal has carried several of her writings and poems.
After moving to South Carolina in 2005, Shellie was asked to read her poems in several well received public appearances. In 2009, some of her poems appeared in “Fruit of the Banyan Tree”, a collection of works by members of a poetry group: the Ruminators of Greenville, South Carolina.
Read more about Shellie on her website, www.astralessence.com.