The body holds a prayer

On By Ka Malana - Fiestaestrellas.comIn Abundant Earth, Creative Writing, Creatrix, Something altogether different, Transformation

Today my body has

a different prayer.

its posture is the same

its form looks consistent,

but this stem of me

is rooted

into the Earth

in a new way.

.

With roots like tentacles

that gyrate when the earth shakes,

managing impact,

adapting to terrain,

lock-step in reconfiguration. 

This is a different WAY

of holding form.

.

In her gentle vibrance,

she’s singing quietly, a hum

mmm from the glint of luminous

emanations,

the near-silence sheens flow

across the ringed-edge of activated

chimes.

Here vibrance meets vibration

in one cyclic, metallic, elemental breath

.

This breath is a request, the body a prayer

.

It is full of trust and knowing;

spacious gratitude meets patient

availability.

the vessel now is in

its holding power

knowing that she can sing for eons

.

just like this,

.

in this pose

.

in this posture

.

in this form

.

as a new prayer.

.

Singing from cavernous connection

with the Mother of all.

.

😮‍💨😌

34 thoughts on “The body holds a prayer”

  1. It’s an interesting idea, that links body and posture to prayer, and reminds me of some of my ongoing interactions with the Notes and Silence blog.

    I have an ambiguous relationship with prayer. Born, I suppose, out of my walking away from Christianity.

    What you seem to describe, I might see as prayer (a word I try to avoid; communication?) as an attitude of life. A meaningful, constant flow of imagery, which can deepen with time and understanding.

    The value of posture? I tend to think of it as a symbolic act – with the meaning and importance we give to it. You may think otherwise.

    Either way, I think you have emphasised the essential unity of body and spirit, for the purposes of this life.

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      1. I hope I always take time to think!

        Nothing is ever static in life – and I mean in “life”, not just in any one incarnation. If I am absolutely honest, there are things shifting at the moment – not specifically related to this post, but everything interconnects – and I am very much riding the wave, not quite knowing where I am going or what will be left.

        You have put me in mind of a Loreena McKennitt song – Beneath a Phrygian Sky: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siXe7bKt1q0&list=PLdJvpJz1pglMqRjMuQfmU8r0ZOLQkMQK-&index=33

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        1. Hi Simon, I listened to the song. I do like Loreena McKennitt. I’m gonna come back to this song again. I’m might have a direct response to your words here, but I’m appreciating the meaningful conversation. Everything does interconnect, and that is the purpose of it for me. I don’t need to exactly ‘understand’ it. I, too, am riding the wave!

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          6. It can be a compliment. It’s up to you, I guess. Weird used to mean “spiritual” I think? Etymology? Oh well, gently I go forth and tread into these weird lands… surreal landscapes. Maybe you do have my answers and I have yours, but someone else needs to decipher them? Have fun with the rest of your day, please! My poem here was very calming for me. Deliberate inner peace met me. It was great.

          8. Oh nice. It doesn’t bother me. If I should accidentally compliment you using such a word I hope you were give me the courtesy of forgiveness for I had forgotten your preference! But I hope I remember! And thanks! Truly: thanks! It looks like what I was thinking 🤔 but didn’t look at link yet.

          11. I have now listened to your videos. My initial thought is that you would have no chance whatsoever of understanding my accent…! (I speak from experience – someone from your area of the world once told me my English does not sound anything like English and I am barely comprehensible on the 20th repetition!!!)

            Anyhow, the question I would have is – how can any of us know we are, or are not, “authentic” when what we are is complex, contradictory, deeply incomprehensible often to ourselves? What am I? Who am I? Those are genuine questions. And I am uncertain any of us are well placed to understand ourselves.

            Now imagine that in a strong south-Wales accent…!

          12. I would be delighted if you created a YouTube channel and we tested out the theory of the accent comprehensibility, and on “which try”? we could “get close” to understanding that accent of yours! 😂 I have been to Wales many years ago, didn’t catch a hint of sun, but only a bit of it was nuanced from the sunlight left inside of the bright flowers and greenery that looked so gorgeous against the cloudy gray-purple backdrop of the moody clouds.

            I’ll respond to the other points in a follow up.

          15. I think authenticity would be mostly transient because what would count would be the expression in the moment, and whether or not it matches the expression of the intention of the emanation of light/beingness. I’m not looking for complexities here nor to philosophize so much about reality of a “presence” as a concrete phenomenon as much as a static object would have. By those grounds, “authentic” is incomprehensible. It’s not like you are a gold coin with a date and we have a specific manufacture code to check or to look with a magnifying glass and check the striations in microscopy as evidence of material truth and justification. I’m looking for the immaterial here. Anyways good question. I love good questions. Thanks!

          16. Might I suggest “authenticity” is not so much “transient” as beyond grasp?

            It’s impossible to speak of this without a degree of philosophising (as your videos illustrate, actually) – but, I wonder if our mental states are never truly “authentic”, as that resides in the deeper self (the soul or spirit, if you will) of which what we “are” and “think” day by day is merely a partial representation.

            Hmm… Actually, had not thought of that before…

            Iechyd da.

    1. I’m really glad that you got that sense of comfort. It was being worked on, behind the scenes, and this level of comfort was achieved in a way where it was observed from within. I am hopeful that she can “stay” there, in her own way. The poem was a bit revelatory for me. Thank you for your thoughtful response!

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  6. Your poem reads like a meditation, Ka. I felt myself adjusting my posture and presence to read it a second time – to feel its resonance. You are a wonderful talent and inspiring soul, my friend. Hugs.

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