tag:gaia.com,2008,:Gaia http://groups.gaia.com/creative_you/discussions/feeds/thread/88201 en-us 2 Thu, 27 Dec 2007 07:57:35 GMT Gaia: Creative YOU - Art for the hart - Corvidophilia - (The Love of Ravens) - Poetry and LightPainting http://jodi.gaia.com jodi tag:gaia.com,2007:Gaia-222333 Thu, 27 Dec 2007 07:57:35 GMT http://groups.gaia.com/creative_you/conversations/view/88201#222333 <p> Thank you for posting your poem. :) Made me think. </p> http://LightDancing.gaia.com Dryad tag:gaia.com,2006:Gaia-88201 Tue, 12 Dec 2006 10:34:10 GMT http://groups.gaia.com/creative_you/conversations/view/88201 <p> <strong>RAVEN</strong><br /><div class="zoom-photo" style="width: 500px"> <a rel="lightbox" href="http://aura.zaadz.com/photos/12/119972/xlarge/raven-girl2.jpg?" onclick="myLightbox.start(this); return false;"><img class="zoom-photo" src="http://aura.zaadz.com/photos/12/119972/large/raven-girl2.jpg?" alt="Raven-girl2" /></a> </div><br /><br />&nbsp;<strong>Corvidophilia - (The Love of Ravens)<br /><br /><br />Gray rain whips the world with wind<br />The mountains are white, awash in mist<br />Above the sound of the howling storm -<br />The moaning of the pines, the wailing of the weather -<br />The ravens can still be heard calling<br />From treetop, to treetop; barren and clear<br />The sound of hollow wet bone<br /><br />Do you wake up drinking darkness,<br />That your eye should be so black, so black<br />Ebony, pitch, shining like sharply cut jet<br />Polished to an acid edge with purpose<br />What do you see? What knowledge do you keep<br />In the darkness of that black, black eye?<br /><br />They say you are a trickster, but it is wisdom<br />I feel behind the dipped ink of your gaze<br />Insight, creation, what all I will never know<br />For you hood yourself with a slow blink<br />Mystery bird the shade of nightwind<br />Lady of secrets, enigma on wings<br />You will not be known<br /><br />They will find your feathers<br />In places you have never been<br />Could these be amulets, charms, sliced from the midnight sky?<br />Cut out with the sharpest, burning, knifewhite stars<br />Dusted with a silent mist of moon?<br />Wherever they have come from<br />They tumble to earth in the simple shape and seeming of Raven feathers<br />But they carry this strong corvidae blessing:<br />Shadow wings stretch as a shield above you<br />Sharp, onyx eyes watch as a ward over you<br />Constant<br />Unblinking<br />Blessed Be<br /><br />And You . . .<br />Nature&#39;s wanton riddle wrapped in ebony<br />You still sail the treetops<br />As black as the memory of every darkness<br />Missing a tail feather here and there . . .<br />With a cry that sounds like it will tear your throat<br />You alight on a branch too slender<br /><br />As it breaks beneath you . . .<br />Your secrets splash against the sky<br /><br />Black eyes blaze brilliant with<br />Laughter . . .<br />As the wild wind catches your widespread<br />Wings . . .<br /><br /><br /><br />&copy; Edwina Peterson Cross<br /></strong> </p>