Sunday, June 29, 2008

WE HAVE COME TO BE DANCED

This poem captures the essence of Kundalini Trance Dance in a way that takes my breath away....maybe yours too.



WE HAVE COME TO BE DANCED - By Jewel Mathieson

We have come to be danced,
Not the pretty dance, not the pretty pretty pick me, pick me dance.
But the claw our way back into the belly of the sacred sensual animal dance.
The unhinged, unplugged, cat is out of its box dance.
The holding the precious moment in the palms of our hands and feet dance.

We have come to be danced.
Not the jiffy booby, shake your booty for him dance.
But the wring the sadness from our skin dance.
Blow the chip off our shoulder dance.
The slap the apology from our posture dance.
We have come to be danced.
Not the monkey see, monkey do dance, one, two dance like you one two three dance like me dance.
But the grave robber, tomb stalker tearing scabs and scars open dance.
The rub the rhythm raw against our souls dance.

We have come to be danced.
Not the nice invisible, self conscious shuffle but the matted hair flying, voodoo mama sham shaking’ ancient bones dance.
They strip us from our casings, return our wings, sharpen our claws and tongues dance.
The shed dead cells and slip into the luminous kin of love dance.

We have come to be danced.
Not the hold our breath and wallow in the shallow end of the floor dance.
But the meeting of the trinity, the body, breath and beat dance.
The shout hallelujah from the top our our things dance.
The mother may I? Yes you may take 10 giant leaps dance.
The olly olly oxen free free free dance.
The everyone can come to our heaven dance.

We have come to be danced.
Where the kingdoms collide in the cathedral of flesh to burn back into the light to unravel to fly to pray to root in skin sanctuary.

We have come to be dance.
WE HAVE COME.

4 comments:

John Robbins said...

Dear Anne,

I feel soooooo lucky to be able to be privy to such marvelous earthshattering stuff! As someone who's always loved to dance, even though once extremely shy, when the rhythm gets poppin' I go boppin'. Not these days (years) as I want to age with some kinda dignity. Reading this latest blog, WOW!, what a carnival to life, what a toast to freedom, to surrendering those hang-ups that we tend to continuously massage to our detriment. Let ze dance fantastique beeeeeginnnn...

Love,
JohnX

Anne Cressy said...

Dearest John,

Love your French accent...speaking of which...I was wondering the other day about the sound of your Welsh accent...and wondering if it has been softened by your years in India.

I have to point out that you're giving your age as permission to "retain your dignity". I want to point out as well that having fun has no age limits...and this kind of dance is first and foremost fun...I think that's why it is so healing. And last but not least...would you care to share this dance with me?
Wouldn't that be fabulous...though we might have to settle for a phone call one of these days.

As always my dear, it's grand to share cyber space with you.

Love,love,love,
Anne

John Robbins said...

Greetings dear Anne,

Bless you for asking; of course I would love to join in.

Will be off on my hols next week, will see about the "chin wag" after I come back.

Blessings & smiles,
Friend,John

John Robbins said...

Hiya again,

curiously/strangely, I don't have a trace of an Indian accent; its soft West Walean with a bit of Cockney East London (very occasionaly) thrown in from those few yrs in London.

By the way I just heard that last year's floods in Central England especially, were the worst in a thousand years would you believe.

Love/hugs
Yr Friend,John

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