Here is a selection of my poems. More are available in published format from my shop.

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Witches (published by Womancraft Publishing)

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They burned us at the stake

They buried us alive

They drowned us in the sea

Or in rivers

Just deep enough to take the last breath out of us

Tied to a rock

To make us stay down there

Silenced and bloated

Screamed out and charred

Muffled and rotten

 

But they forgot that the fish that they ate

Ate me

And the dust that they breathed was the ashes of me

And the food that they grew was fertilised by me.

 

I am even to be found in the flowers that decorate their homes.

Millions of sisters like me

Resilient and beautiful

Gently passing on our legacy.

 

We are not dead

For the witches are alive through you and around you

Nothing is lost, nothing is created

All is transformed

 

Watch me burn

And be reborn

Like the phoenix

Purified

Distilled

Nutrified

The very best essence of me.

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Asherah Rising (published by Girl God Books)

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They obliterated Me
Me Asherah
The First and the Queen
The Equal wife of El
They melded Me 
For My Gold
Fused Me 
Turned me to Alloy
And in the Blending
I was erased completely
Only He was left
Disfigured, atrophied, a parody
He disappeared too
Replaced by an Impostor 
My screams were not heard
I watched in horror
For millennia
Gathering up My Strength
In helms of a mighty cloak
And singing to every woman
Who wore a golden ring
Their ancestral cells 
Heard Me
Their hearts 
Echoed
Now their blood
Pulses with My Voice
I am returning
To my Equal
I am returning to Me
I am returning to El
My Crown is being reforged
In the Sacred Fires of Creation
Asherah
Tree of Life
Roots of the Mother Ash Tree
Growing again
From her Ashes
 

 

Cacao Medicine

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Bitter is the medicine

To cure a bitter heart

The wood 

Will splinter your fingers

While curled up snakes

And poison dart frogs

Will guard the tree

The soil is rusty red dust

From the iron ore

The minerals in the fruit

Flakes of rocks

But

The heart melts

When cacao paste

Becomes a muddy river

Rich

Deep

Velvety brown

Maya gold

Flowing through my veins

The food of the gods

Pulsing outward 

With each heartbeat

Like a drum

In the ancient forest

Of my bones

I hear them

Drum - Drum

I hear the call

Drum - Drum

Mother cacao anchors me down

To this earth

A rare gift

On this ferocious planet 

A pause to come back to my heart

And to travel within my body

Like a medicine woman

From ancient times

Travelling on her canoe

Exploring ever more ruins

Abandoned cities

Scorched groves

And uncovering

New luscious forests

Cenote portals

Colourful birds, jaguars,

Howler monkeys, pezotes

Frogs and snakes

The animal poison in the soil

Becomes plant medicine

Necessary and vital

To disinfect and heal

This wounded heart.

 

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