{"id":5789,"date":"2013-04-24T22:09:51","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T02:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beginnersheart\/?p=5789"},"modified":"2013-04-24T22:09:51","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T02:09:51","slug":"day-24-of-national-poetry-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beginnersheart\/2013\/04\/day-24-of-national-poetry-month.html","title":{"rendered":"day #24 of National Poetry Month ~"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"image\"<\/a>It’s hard to keep up a routine in Maui. Even w\/ every good intention, I have yet to pick up my journal. And despite how much I love my iPad, it’s impossible to upload certain images. But in honour of my past two days at Maui beaches, w\/ a dear girlfriend, I’m going to try to post another. And a poem to go with it.<\/p>\n

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Because I’m gifted w\/ not only the most amazing s birth sisters, but also incredible heart sisters. And at least 3 of them are both — the three pictured w\/ me here. So today’s poem is by a poem who knew, loved, and wrote about women — sisters, lovers, friends & redeemers. And all of them dance with me, metaphorically & sometime literally.<\/p>\n

Here’s Adrienne Rich’s ‘Women’:<\/p>\n

Women<\/strong><\/p>\n

My three sisters are sitting
\non rocks of black obsidian.
\nFor the first time, in this light, I can see who they are.<\/p>\n

My first sister is sewing her costume for the procession.
\nShe is going as the Transparent lady
\nand all her nerves will be visible.<\/p>\n

My second sister is also sewing,
\nat the seam over her heart which has never healed entirely,
\nAt last, she hopes, this tightness in her chest will ease.<\/p>\n

My third sister is gazing
\nat a dark-red crust spreading westward far out on the sea.
\nHer stockings are torn but she is beautiful.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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