TEARS OF THE PHOENIX
EsSense EsSays
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“The Water”
Wet,
warm, wonderful magic
Waves caressing me gently.
The rhythm of the sea surrounds me
Cradled in the deep.
Memories of misty mornings
Sunrise gleaming through the clouds.
Mystic glades of emerald magic
Undulating hypnotically.
Heartbeats pulse in synchronicity
Throbbing senses awaken.
Alone and yet so near to love
Secure I float and languish.
What is this restlessness I feel
This urge to venture forth?
What's pushing, shoving, squeezing?
I'm frightened, hold me close.
These tears are new, they burn my eyes.
The water where I was, was kinder.
REUNION
We
spent so much time apart
It's hard to remember your vibration.
Where
have you been all those lost moments?
My pulse has forgotten its rhythm.
Have
I been alive, or was it a play?
A pretense, making believe I really existed.
I
sense the nearness of you, Immanent!
What makes me so sure you are there?
An
inner knowing, a conviction that you await
Around a corner, across the bridge of my dreams.
Your
face may not be a familiar one.
But something in your manner will betray you.
The
resonance begins and silently the message is sent:
"Here I am, the missing piece of your soul."
At
last, after so long a time, we meet again,
Blending like the colors of a glorious sunset.
Not
the ending of our days,
But the beginning of our nights.
Our
work is done.
Our pleasure is yet to come.
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About the Book
Jesse Graye’s Tears of the Phoenix illuminates
an entire healing process, from a wounding past, over treacherous roads of
despair and indignation, through gardens of hope and affirmation, and into
visions of glory, as she reclaims her rightful inheritance as a child of the
universe, with humility, bravado, honesty, humor, and high regard for Spirit.
Her poems and essays often take the reader around an unforeseen corner (“treat regret like the thief it is”), offer a fresh look at well-worn images (the loose-fitting robes of the Christ are “one-size-fits-all”), and match the mundane to the sacred with wry originality (“I am the brains in this relationship, [God] is the muscle and the laughs”). She expresses emotions familiar to us all, rage, loneliness, fear, joy and love, but through her personal alchemy they become “diamonds in the dust at [her] feet” and hold us “captive by silken restraints.” We are reminded, in phrases that might well be magnetized to the refrigerator, that phantoms of the past “have only the power we give them” and that the light of truth can shine through nature, silence, gratitude, patience, and the remembrance of who we are.
(From Preface by Lesta Bertoia)
About the Author
Jesse Graye is a wise woman. Her sixty-five years as a wife, working
mother and now grandmother give her a viewpoint honed to a fine edge. Her perspective reveals the pervading
presence and activity of Spirit woven intricately through all life’s
encounters. She is an observant mystic
who writes with refreshing and healing clarity.
It takes a brave woman, a clever poet, a multi-faceted human being, and a dauntless soul to invite fellow travelers to share a difficult, insightful, and ultimately adventurous journey through the personal traumas and revelations of a lifetime.
This voice speaks volumes to those of us who are
breaking free from their own shadowy shrouds into the dancing radiance of Life.