A Sequence of Embraces (Erotic Poem)
A Sequence of Embraces
by Irina Kuzminsky
Consider it my gift to you
Life's gift of air...
I have spoken to the birds of Paradise
Bright—coloured
Why go there to seek the houri?
She walks beside you on the sacred earth.
***
I am air
I am the wind's embrace
Warm breeze caressing skin
Zephyrs ruffling hair
Cold gusts sharpening minds
Storm winds to ride to your destiny
And whirlwinds to clear out your house —
May the winds come to you
From the North, East, West, South
Choose the wind your life needs
In your seasons of need
My embrace
The embrace of the wind
***
Not my embrace -- but fire
Not my waves -- but water
Not my touch -- but air
That you may know the sacredness of earth
***
Embrace me and embrace soul
Lips to lips
Eyes to eyes
Awakening me -- you
Awaken
***
I embrace and assert what I am
Serving you serve my essence
Comingle with me and awaken into emptiness
Penetrate me and know your own depths
For I am She who flows
She who changes
I am She who awakens
Desire -- Your desire for your
Life
***
Be not afraid
To break all forms with love
I say --
Let nightingales sing in the rose of your heart.
***
This final service I have now performed
-- so free me of embraces
Of all that I agreed to
before I came
***
Troubadours and troubatritzes have long sung
Of the secret
I proclaim: let love remove every covering
So shall I go naked
Into the rain
-- And dance
***
Fill the core at my centre Beloved
And release the song in me
The dance in me
Thus centred and grounded
Words flow
Bodies flow
And I sing
ABOUT THE POET:
Born in Australia in 1959 into a White Russian emigre family who made the arduous trek from St Petersburg through Siberia into China's northern city of Harbin and thence to Australia, Irina could not help but be influenced by the riches of Russian pre-revolutionary literary and artistic culture. Like one of the poets who inspired her, Marina Tsvetaeva, she has moved from writing predominantly shorter lyrics to verse novels with characters as disparate as Mary Magdalene, Heloise, Nizam, or the fictional heroines of Joy and An Innocent Womb, verse novels inspired by the spiritual traditions of Christianity, Taoism, Sufism, Tantric Hinduism and the Goddess centered religions of the Neolithic.
Irina believes in art as a bridge into spiritual consciousness. At the most personal level her art and her whole life are centred around the desire to rediscover and reconnect with the Divine Feminine in all of its manifestations. Poetry and dance are both a part of and an expression of that journey.
Irina's poems and articles have been published in England, Australia and the US in Acumen, Poetrix, Caduceus, Arts and Academic Review, Devi, Phoebe, Women's Art Register and Dance Australia. Irina is currently working with ways of presenting poetry to audiences in combination with dance and music.
Irina Kuzminsky says of poetry:
"In writing poetry, true poetry, one does commune with the gods. All I have written have been things heard or sensed by me, a rhythm, a sense of colour, an image apprehended verbally, an idea from a realm in which words are never purely verbal, but always a chord of sound and colour and movement.
"When I write I feel I am spinning words out of my own being, my own flesh. Printed and fixed on a page will these words live still and breathe as I lived and breathed them? And how is it possible to write of an experience and still remain true to it? This applies to any experience, but how much more so to an experience of the divine..."
by Irina Kuzminsky
Consider it my gift to you
Life's gift of air...
I have spoken to the birds of Paradise
Bright—coloured
Why go there to seek the houri?
She walks beside you on the sacred earth.
***
I am air
I am the wind's embrace
Warm breeze caressing skin
Zephyrs ruffling hair
Cold gusts sharpening minds
Storm winds to ride to your destiny
And whirlwinds to clear out your house —
May the winds come to you
From the North, East, West, South
Choose the wind your life needs
In your seasons of need
My embrace
The embrace of the wind
***
Not my embrace -- but fire
Not my waves -- but water
Not my touch -- but air
That you may know the sacredness of earth
***
Embrace me and embrace soul
Lips to lips
Eyes to eyes
Awakening me -- you
Awaken
***
I embrace and assert what I am
Serving you serve my essence
Comingle with me and awaken into emptiness
Penetrate me and know your own depths
For I am She who flows
She who changes
I am She who awakens
Desire -- Your desire for your
Life
***
Be not afraid
To break all forms with love
I say --
Let nightingales sing in the rose of your heart.
***
This final service I have now performed
-- so free me of embraces
Of all that I agreed to
before I came
***
Troubadours and troubatritzes have long sung
Of the secret
I proclaim: let love remove every covering
So shall I go naked
Into the rain
-- And dance
***
Fill the core at my centre Beloved
And release the song in me
The dance in me
Thus centred and grounded
Words flow
Bodies flow
And I sing
ABOUT THE POET:
Born in Australia in 1959 into a White Russian emigre family who made the arduous trek from St Petersburg through Siberia into China's northern city of Harbin and thence to Australia, Irina could not help but be influenced by the riches of Russian pre-revolutionary literary and artistic culture. Like one of the poets who inspired her, Marina Tsvetaeva, she has moved from writing predominantly shorter lyrics to verse novels with characters as disparate as Mary Magdalene, Heloise, Nizam, or the fictional heroines of Joy and An Innocent Womb, verse novels inspired by the spiritual traditions of Christianity, Taoism, Sufism, Tantric Hinduism and the Goddess centered religions of the Neolithic.
Irina believes in art as a bridge into spiritual consciousness. At the most personal level her art and her whole life are centred around the desire to rediscover and reconnect with the Divine Feminine in all of its manifestations. Poetry and dance are both a part of and an expression of that journey.
Irina's poems and articles have been published in England, Australia and the US in Acumen, Poetrix, Caduceus, Arts and Academic Review, Devi, Phoebe, Women's Art Register and Dance Australia. Irina is currently working with ways of presenting poetry to audiences in combination with dance and music.
Irina Kuzminsky says of poetry:
"In writing poetry, true poetry, one does commune with the gods. All I have written have been things heard or sensed by me, a rhythm, a sense of colour, an image apprehended verbally, an idea from a realm in which words are never purely verbal, but always a chord of sound and colour and movement.
"When I write I feel I am spinning words out of my own being, my own flesh. Printed and fixed on a page will these words live still and breathe as I lived and breathed them? And how is it possible to write of an experience and still remain true to it? This applies to any experience, but how much more so to an experience of the divine..."
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