posted June 10, 2014 02:01 AM            

I read your poem just after you'd posted it... There was something 'familiar' to me about the term 'Black Hawk Down,' which sent me on a strange computer search, including utubes. No one gets left behind... But sometimes that slaughter happens and its grievous and unforgivable that human beings feel they can do this to an Other.

'Kachina' reminded me of Aztec or Mayan history... I had done some artwork twenty years ago based on this sacrificing theme, trying to process bits and pieces. I recalled feeling so uncomfortable in middle school studying about that. I loved studying about history and usually absorbed stories with imagination and fascination-- but the heinous betrayal this leader suffered and the massacre that followed by foreigners I still can barely stand.

I want to make it clear that I'm making a parallel here, about your personal life, my life, and events and the suffering that happens when a child is abused, when adults continue to suffer abuses (many varieties) everyday--, and do so, unconnected... and Silently.

Innocence was violated. Trusts broken. Lives Lost. Wounding of Spirit of Innocent People... How many times? Looping over and over. It happens to one person, it happens to ALL that IS connected. Healing is needed on multi-level layers of personal consciousness, as well as societal.

I hope you're okay. I hope that "dove" is the Comforter Spirit, there to give you the sense of not being abandoned.

Daedelus, Icarus... those mythologies. I've encountered confusing stories, lots of them. I hope that the 'flight' you discover is the one that the Soul knows... Takes you to the root-- where once connection of all things is made clear, then you will feel your entire Life Experience completes you.

May your Journey down bring It all 'round right.... MUCH Love to You, and so much Caring.

posted June 10, 2014 02:15 AM            

HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY, Metal Aphrodite! June 3rd

posted June 14, 2014 06:15 PM            

@mirage,
I was trying to sum into words the healing of the extreme pain I felt recently and finally coming through it. I was over the hardships I had recently experienced and even though I was in safe territory, I still felt alienated and devastated.

I started to think of the term "Black Hawk Down", as well as the Native American medicinal totems for hawk and dove. When doves cry started playing in my head too, my brother and I having sang the song a couple nights ago in karaoke.

How can you just leave me standing
Alone in a world so cold?
[...]
Why do we scream at each other?
This is what it sounds like when doves cry.

Then I saw a scene, a bonfire, a broken hawk, and a dove circling the scene before landing.

At what point does a dove stop crying for peace and actually pursues it as the final resort?

Hawk is the intuition, the higher sight. Dove is peace.

I realized that I will not be able to regain my intuitive senses fully until I make peace my shield to heal self.

"Innocence was violated. Trusts broken. Lives Lost. Wounding of Spirit of Innocent People... How many times? Looping over and over. It happens to one person, it happens to ALL that IS connected. Healing is needed on multi-level layers of personal consciousness, as well as societal."

I like how you summed up my poem. Sometimes, I can only speak in metaphors, finding it extremely difficult to word the things I want to convey because the things are so abstract, but so strong.

Basically, at the end of the poem, the dove, who is a peaceful entity, is calling us back to our true selves. Drawing our power from the combined spirits of courage from our ancestors, the rising Divine Mother cannot be denied anymore.

I said off hand to people after watching the movie Maleficent with Angelina Jolie that this is the year of sisterhood.

I think more accurately, we're being drawn back to the sacred temple within the self to become fortified with true love, for self, for others, for the divine feminine that seemed absent for a while.

posted June 14, 2014 06:19 PM            

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Originally posted by mirage29:
ALSO!!! Your BIRTHDAY was overlooked....

[b]HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY, Metal Aphrodite! June 3rd

So sorry you got missed.... No one left behind
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Thanks for that :3. I didn't get missed at all. It's busy sometimes, but I know that a person doesn't have to say it outright for me to know that their well wishing still favors me.

posted July 09, 2014 01:18 AM            

I also loved that 'Doves Cry' song, too!