Poetry Archives - Dr. Marilyn

What Grows in Darkness

By Marilyn Steele|2013-02-01T19:40:46-06:00February 1st, 2013|Hawaii, Poetry|

"You darkness, that I come from, I love you more than all the fires that fence in the world, for the fire makes a circle of light for everyone, and then no one outside learns of you. But the darkness pulls in everything: Shapes and fires, animals and myself, How easily it gathers them!- Powers and people- And it is possible a great energy Is moving near me. I have faith in nights." Rilke, trans. Robert Bly Like the darkness of the womb, like the land of po in Hawaiian cosmology, it is [...]

Happy Solstice! Another opportunity for transition.

By Marilyn Steele|2012-12-21T22:32:15-06:00December 21st, 2012|Poetry|

"You darkness, that I come from, I love you more than all the fires that fence in the world, for the fire makes a circle of light for everyone, and then no one outside learns of you. But the darkness pulls in everything: Shapes and fires, animals and myself, How easily it gathers them!- Powers and people- And it is possible a great energy Is moving near me. I have faith in nights." - Rilke, trans. Robert Bly Today is the shortest day of the year, and the longest night. These three days [...]

The Beginning is Now

By Marilyn Steele|2012-10-09T17:17:59-05:00October 9th, 2012|Poetry|

“We must come to the end before a new beginning can come to us.” - Helene Cixous This is a singular moment, a time of transition for the world. The old order dissolves. The world is hungry for a vision, a new planetary mythology. It is emerging from women like you, carrying the energy of the dynamic, transformative Feminine, or what I call The Wild feminine. The map of the psyche and the map of the world are mirror images of the same story. When we restore and reclaim the wild and sacred [...]