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© Lisa Sarasohn 2000
www.honoringyourbelly.com



There's A Hot-Line

There's a hot-line to the center of the earth
to the earth Mother, Goddess
Gaia

There's a hot-line to the center of the earth-
and it's in our guts

There's a red telephone in your belly
(let me tell you it's a dial, not digital)

You wanna talk to her?
Pick up the phone,
and speak,
and listen:
Terra's spring-green mounds
gestating
generations
Your star-fired belly-womb
encompassing becoming
until it bursts into being

What's the difference?
The difference
is
:
is
the difference.
What's the difference?

Listen,
and speak.
Pick up the phone,
and talk to her.

There's a red telephone in your belly
(let me tell you it's a dial, not digital)

There's a hot-line to the center of the earth
It's in your gut

There's a hot-line to the center of the earth
to the earth Mother, Goddess
Gaia


How You Will Know That I Come In Peace

You may think that we are different:
spaceeven the way we blink our eyes
spacemoves to a different rhythm.
Yet when we look into the sky at night,
spaceit is the same, simple moon that we see.

Our bodies, I believe, are a gift from the stars:
spaceStars showering particles of light and sound
spacebrought the earth into being
spacespacand the substance of who we are.

How could we be anything but kin?

But when you see me coming,
spacehow will you know that I come in peace?

I'll clothe myself in the colors
spaceof your own beauty;
I'll speak to you in the rhythms
spaceof your own singing;
I'll touch you with the tenderness
spaceof your own heartbeat;

And I'll breathe with you in the pulsing
spaceof our planet's love.

 

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