Holy Beam

by Janine Canan

Mother Moon,

bigger tonight,

your bright face weary

yet detached as You watch

us devouring our world.

Holy Moon,

on this long winter night

to You

we pray for peace,

generosity and self-sacrifice.

Heavenly Queen,

as we speed the freeways

we naively chose,

beam your Love until we 

realize our own startling light.

 

Sweet Kali

by Janine Canan

Take me, envelop me,

devour and consume me,

silence this junky mind.

Dunk me, marinade me,

pickle and drown me,

dissolve this reckless mind.

Disperse me, elevate me,

annihilate and erase me,

absorb this adoring mind.

Janine Canan is a psychiatrist and the author of 13 poetry collections, including In the Palace of Creation: Selected Works 1969-1999; Messages from Amma: In the Language of the Heart (sayings of the Indian "hugging saint"); Changing Woman; Star in My Forehead: Selected Poems by Else Lasker-Schueler (translations); and She Rises like the Sun: Invocations of the Goddess by Contemporary American Women Poets (recipient of the Koppelman Award). 

 


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