Mana - Spiritual Power

Building

There in your fullsnow moon
The lucent light
Will glide on silent snow
Gold-dust on diamonds
Sweet cream on pearls
Build a Snow Goddess there
With the cold, dry powder
And your bare, dreaming hands
Mold round her milkwhite, resonant breasts
Mellow, full of moon;
To nurture a starving world

My garden
Glows moist with the same moonlight
Here it is deep and damp
Serene and saturated
Kneeling in the wet black earth
I ask blessing for a land that is dry
Slake the thirst, quench what is parched
Renew the seared, regenerate the withered
Kneeling in the calm tranquility of night
I ask peace for a world infected with war

My fingers form eyes deep with wisdom
My hands shape a face of clear compassion
Kneeling in the wet black earth, here in the dark
I will build a Goddess
Of violets and of rain
My cupped hands fill with sacred moonlight
I will build
A Goddess
Of Love


©Edwina Peterson Cross
February 16, 2003