Happy to announce a Dakini Publications website poetry section, with the launch of ‘Tales from the Yoni Stone’. First edition was published by Lulu Press in 2015. Second edition can be freely downloaded here: Tales from the Yoni Stone.
The poems/songs cover themes such as love, sex, spiritual growth, aging, womanhood and more, seen and told through female eyes. As a preview of what is in the book I share one of the poems below:
AN INFIDELITY TO THE EXTERNAL WORLD
I am the loaded question
the harmonious contradiction
the unreliable accomplice
the brave beggar.
I am the impenetrable fear
the undeniable attraction
the seething truth
the dream-like mirror.
I am the violent lover
the quiet dictator
the screaming coward
the raging heroine.
I will love and destroy you.
Create and consume you.
Eat you and spit you.
Enflame and cool you.
I am an obvious mystery,
a cliched poem
a wanton recluse
a sick doctor.
I am the monk’s robe,
The whore’s heel
The mother’s kiss
The soldier’s gun.
I am a soul seducer
A telepathic hustler
A mind invader
An infidelity to the external world.
I drive the stars and moons,
emotions and moods
thoughts and dreams
I form the basis of all.
I am the delirious painter,
the crazy sculptor
the mad inventor
the inspired conductor.
I am breathing and dying
suffering and joy
desire and aversion
love and loss.
I am nothing yet everything,
I am there when you die
and when you are born.
I am you, you are me,
to know me is to know the REAL you.
But there is no-one to KNOW.
No-ONE,
No words, no concepts
No thoughts, no struggle
no ambition, no money
no objects, no suffering
no striving, striving, striving…
Just
Silence, silence, silence…..
The infinite blinding light of……..AH.
Composed by Adele Tomlin, Copyright 2015/2020.
The poetry section on the website will be updated with new songs, poems and translations as and when they arise. May we never forget to sing our songs of truth, wisdom and experience!
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