Rose Lineage

A Rose blooms when she is ready
When She is ready
When She is ready
and not a moment too soon.

A Rose blooms
when her velvet darkness
awakens to the dawn.

A Rose blooms
when her sweet honey
is tasted by every petal

Swollen with becoming
Bursting at the hips
Air rapt with fragrance
Join the dance of spring.

A Rose blooms
when she is ready
when she is ready
and not a moment too soon.

Lineage of the Grandmothers
Lineage of the Velvet Prose
Lineage of the Crimson Waters
Lineage of the Magdalene Daughters
Lineage of the Scarlet Codes
Lineage of the Visions they brought Her
Back to the Heart
to the Lineage of the Rose.

A Rose blooms
when she is ready
when she is ready
and not a moment too soon.

I am Bud Maiden, diamond in the rough
painting wings of satin blushing
petal temples, tender to touch
I let you in, I let you in.

I am blossoming slowly to the light
I am remembering all of the phrases
Sunlight language, dew mist in the night
flowering into poems for the ages.

I am Rose Mother in full bloom
Script of ruby fire emblazoned
petals fall slowly by the moon.

I drink in the wisdom
of all that was tasted.
I am potpourri danced upon the earth
Holy death takes nothing from my beauty.

I am ground into the rosary beads
Come sing your prayers over Me
Come sing your prayers over Me.

A Rose blooms
A Rose blooms

Lineage of the Grandmothers
Lineage of Velvet Prose
Lineage of the Crimson Waters
Lineage of the Rose
Lineage of the Magdalene Daughters
Lineage of the Scarlet Codes
Lineage of the Visions they brought Her
back to the heart.

A Rose blooms
when she is ready
when she is ready
and not a moment too soon.

by Marya Stark