Rainy Day Altar – Photo by Toni Roberts
an even more delicious day
than the sunshine and calm blue skies of yesterday?
Indoors On A Rainy Day – Photo by Toni Roberts
this
glorious
today
with
noisy splatters of raindrops
and
boisterous winds
intruding upon the
SILENCE
of my
SACRED SPACE…
blow!
Oya
clear away the debris that clogs the mind and soul
whip up the waters!
cleanse this vessel!
ready it for the
Holy Work
for which the Soul has come…
Awakening; Artwork and Photo by Toni Roberts
the
pain…
to fully
feel
grief...
sadness...
to let it
wash
through
me…
leaving me
cleansed…
purified…
Toni Roberts’ Artwork and Photography are available at:
http://www.cafepress.com/DaughtersofGaia
http://www.cafepress.com/orishatreasures
Photo by Toni Roberts
the
question
is the
key
that
opens
the
door…
once the question has been asked
the questioner must remain
silent and alert…
so as not to miss the opportunity...
once the door swings open…
to enter a heretofore
dark…
hidden…
unexplored…
room
of
the
mansion…
a room filled to capacity with
un-imagined
treasures…
Toni Roberts’ Artwork and Photography are available at:
http://www.cafepress.com/DaughtersofGaia
http://www.cafepress.com/orishatreasures
Full Moon; Stock Photo
Gemini Moon…
in the fullness of
Your Light
the hidden self
is revealed…
and as the dark self wanes before
Your Brilliance…
the
Goddess Self
expands…
illuminating the world
with the
Healing Light
of
Your Love…
Toni Roberts’ Artwork and Photography are available at:
http://www.cafepress.com/DaughtersofGaia
http://www.cafepress.com/orishatreasures
Hutchinson River, Bx., NY; Photo by Toni Roberts
to stop trying to push
the rivers of my life…
to simply let them
flow
as
they
will…
arriving at their own destinations…
unfolding in their own time…
Toni Roberts’ Artwork and Photography are available at:
http://www.cafepress.com/DaughtersofGaia
http://www.cafepress.com/orishatreasures
Man In A Glass Box; photo by Toni Roberts
deconstruct the
current box in which you
live…breathe…and have your being…
release the stories you tell
about: yourself…your life…your past
stories that confine…restrict…
prevent you from taking flight
like the free spirit you came this way
to be…
tear down the box you have built around yourself
that allows you to maintain the
illusion of safety within the confines of a
crazed and fear-filled mind
teeming with false beliefs and
wild imaginings…
release the tales of past events
you tell to all who will listen…
cease the righteous picking and re-picking of scabs from
wounds half-healed…
ignore the box in which your neighbor is confined…
and the larger one within which
the world is encased…
gaze not upon
the boxes of the Others
who so enrage…infuriate…irritate
as they infringe upon and restrict
the expansion of your own beloved box…
disturbing the bliss of infatuation with your
own story…
still your mind
quiet your tongue
eliminate: I…my…me…mine…
from your vocabulary…
thus you shall begin the dismantling of
the box that confines and restricts your being…
preventing you from taking flight
like the free spirit you came this way
to be…
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Collage/photo by Toni Roberts
Thank you
Sister-friend, Vera
For an evening of
Body-mind-soul nourishment
As we watched last eve
The HBO movie: Bessie Smith
Winner of the Toni Roberts’ Award for
The best beginning of many more movies to come that tell
Our Stories…
The varied…multi-faceted…multidimensional stories of
American-born-African-women
From Bessie Smith to Michelle Obama
And all those before…in-between…and after
Thank you, my beloved sister-friend
For the food that nourished my body
And for the deeply loving and abiding friendship
That nourishes my soul
You are indeed the sister I never had
The one to whom I may not have spoken in weeks…or months…
But who, after long absences welcomes me and sits with me
In comprehending silence
As we watch together a Bessie Smith made for HBO movie starring Queen Latifa
A movie that tells my story…your story…our story…
A universal tale of Life born in pain…
And lived in endless cycles of Death and Rebirth…
Thank you, my sister-friend…
Thank you for being there…
Thank you for your presence…
Thank you for your understanding silence…
Thank you for your generosity of spirit…
You, Vera,
Are a perfect and uniquely individualized manifestation of
Goddess-Love
May the Mother of us all
The Bringer of Life
Continue to ex-press
In…as…and through you
In ever-expanding ripples of
Healing Love…
Through all Space and Time…
