A mother: Before anything else, she is a woman in love
A Thousand Red Roses
A Yellow Rose and a Thousand Red Roses
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 of 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
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A Yellow Rose and a Thousand Red Roses
Copyright ©2009 Francia C. Clavecillas
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