Peacock Dreams

Prayer to Godhood (Rose Prayer)

yezida

6/16/08 09:42 am

After the last Pantheacon, I received requests to post this prayer and never got around to it. Here it is:

Prayer to our own Godhood

Beautiful rose,
keep me from ignorance.
May I learn silence as well as speech,
depth as well as height,
freedom as well as restraint,
stillness as well as movement,
reason as well as joy.
May I walk firmly and
come into full possession of myself.
Through the guidance of the ancestors
and in the company of the Gods,
may I know myself and manifest my work.
May God Herself be seen,
a reflection in my eyes.




[My only request is that if you pass it on, please attribute it. Last time I posted it here, it got put into a rosary by someone - which is nice - without attribution- which is not nice. I discovered it when one of my students opened up her notebook and showed me this cool prayer she'd gotten. Anything written in my blog without attribution, has been written by me.]

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• passionandsoul

  6/16/08 07:14 pm (UTC)

  

  Thank you SO much. I was one of the one at the end of PantheaCon who came up and asked- greatly appreciated.

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• elemirion

  6/16/08 08:29 pm (UTC)

  

  Amen sister!
  Nothing should be passed without attribution.
  
  Very beautiful poem BTW

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• votum_succendo

  6/16/08 10:08 pm (UTC)

  

  pretty :-)

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• happydog

  6/17/08 03:31 am (UTC)

  

  That's the first time I've seen that, and it's completely beautiful.

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• femmahaze

  6/17/08 03:41 am (UTC)

  

  So me reading your annual solstice poem last year at a poetry circle was okeedokee because I attributed it to you? Yes? It was a last minute impulse, so I didn't ask, and justified this with my belief that poetry is written to be shared.
  
  One of the people in attendance, a county commissioner for the Green party who happens to be Pagan, really tuned in when it came to "Gaudete! ..." He was trained to be a Jesuit priest in the Bay area before he converted, and he was obviously impressed at your lyrical gifts, as well as the body of knowledge that informed the poem. I referred him to your website.
  
  Thanks for sharing this prayer.

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  • yezida

    6/17/08 04:37 pm (UTC)

    

    Yep. Okeedokee with attribution.

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    • dbananza

      6/17/08 08:00 pm (UTC)

      and can vee & i sneak a prayer of yours (which we will attribute) into an upcoming initiation, after (and IF) the victim has recovered sufficiently?!
      :)
      
      we will shoot you an email explaining where in the proceedings we added it, if you like. we'll definitely attribute the parts of the rite in our explanation, so they'll know what the heck they just got themselves into.
      
      

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      • yezida

        6/17/08 10:57 pm (UTC)

        

        Yes you may!

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• elinor

  6/19/08 05:46 pm (UTC)

  

  That is beautiful. Thank you.

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• shi_rawi_wittem

  6/21/08 06:29 pm (UTC)

  

  Thank you. For someone who just spent a few very uncomfortable days in obsession (after finally leaving apathy), this is like a port after being seasick in a gale.

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• mysanal

  6/23/08 11:03 pm (UTC)

  

  Beautiful. Thank you.

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• toasterstrumpet

  7/27/08 07:26 pm (UTC)

  

  Actually, I am the one who worked it into a rosary prayer, and it was attributed to you when I posted it on the feri community.

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  • yezida

    7/27/08 11:13 pm (UTC)

    

    thanks for clarification.
    
    It got passed on without it...

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