Before a woman becomes a mother or before a woman takes upon herself the role of a mother, she is first a woman in love. Whether the love she holds is received in equal measure or not does not matter. This daring to love is the foundation of all human life. Where will life be without a woman in love; without a mother? Mother’s Day celebrates every mother’s ferociousness to take care of her children with that unerring gentleness that inhabits every cell of a woman’s being.

Dan Brown, in his novel “The Da Vinci Code” tackled the “Sacred Feminine” as a theme.The novel was more than a controversy over who Mary Magdalene was in relation to the life Jesus Christ. Magdalene as the symbol of the “Sacred Feminine” being consciously kept from public discourse then and now, opened up a continuing interest in the issue of Patriarchy as a social construct. With woman as the carrier of life but always relegated to a role that is all at once associated with subjugation and marginalization by the mainstream psyche is trivializing the power of half of the world’s population.

Mother’s day is a time to celebrate the beauty and power of this symbol of woman and motherhood – the rose. The rose as the symbol of the reproductive aspect of the female anatomy is a symbol that can yet change the course of humanity from what it is today to what all mothers dream of: life as a womb of safety and love.

Here’s a poem I am sharing here for Mother’s Day:

A yellow rose and a thousand red roses

There used to be

just one yellow rose

defining the scars

of my geography;

Each scar was a terrain

unfamiliar to promenaders

holding hands

under kind stars.

Then I dreamed

of a thousand women

swallowing the teeth of their sorrow

Each of them was giving me

a red rose.

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY

NOTE:

A Yellow Rose and a Thousand Red Roses 

Copyright ©2009 Francia C. Clavecillas

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