• Sections

    • Jan

    28

    Girls Who Wander into the Temple Wilds

    Filed Under being creative, new things, poetry 

    My thoughts today are scattered four ways to the wind … as I prepare for class in a few hours.

    In ancient Greece
    it was custom to send a girl child -
    when she was six years old -
    into the wilderness that
    began on the outskirts of the city
    not naked, but draped in the skins of dead animals
    the girl would live there
    foraging for food
    and living as any young beast
    without a parent
    to protect it
    after one year she would be found again
    brought home,
    prepared for marriage
    and by the age of twelve, she would
    meet her next great test -
    surviving childbirth.

    Feeling Overwhelmed - Some days I want a thick iron door, twenty feet high, to slam shut on all new ideas and “thoughts to ponder.” But then, I go and open all the windows in the house.

    Other People - When people tell me I’m going to turn into a mean bitch, that makes me feel mean and bitchy.

    Weight - Vanity must be tied to regret; I fuss more about my waistline now than ever because, I suppose, it was never as small as I wanted it to be.

    And Lastly - Artemis was the lady of wild things.

    Share This

    Popularity: 26% [?]

    Comments

    Leave a Reply




    Close
    E-mail It
    visitors since June 16, 2007