Reading Elizabeth Alberda’s poetry is a way to drink light and feel dazzled, as well as feel exquisitely nourished, having imbibed an elixir of words that make a feast for the soul. Some part of that feast is sublimely playful, some heartbreaking, but all proof she has embodied the life story of this holy Earth, as her most cherished beloved One.
Alberda is a poet of the world behind the world, and the world within the world. She calls her collection, The Emerald Word , and includes poems about the Emerald World, and the Queen of that World, thus creating a dance between matter and words, green stone and the magic etched from that stone, together forming a paean of praise.
This sacred poetry states that nature is the closest reflection that we can have of the heavenly realms, the closest we can come to the divine. It speaks to us if we can see and hear and allow it.
It is difficult to embrace miracles, but they are here every day in nature. Nature is the greatest healing force. We see and hear the beating heart of the earth, the animals and the whales and dolphins who bring the song of love to our planet. The whales are the carriers of emerald green light, singing the oceans’ love songs.
All this is contained within the pages of this elegant book of poetry by Elizabeth Alberda.
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Old Woman Rock Power 1
Each Day Earth Day 2
Destiny 3
An Invisible Audience 4
Butterfly Tree 6
To Trudge In Beauty 7
Nature’s Covenant 8
Papyrus 9
Returning Her Ancient Torso 10
A Length Of Time 11
The Stone-Boat 12
The Apple Poem 13
The Chicken Poem 14
Tinkers Island 15
Great Grandmother 16
Night Fishing 17
While Making Bread 18
The Hypogeum In Malta 19
Her Bread 20
A Flowered Dance Floor 21
Glory Be To Harriet Tubman 22
Winged Victory of Samothrace 23
Penelope 24
Michelangelo: Destiny and Will 26
The Legend of Sabina Von Steinbach 27
A Holy Seed 28
The Mother Candle 29
The Oak Tree 30
The Breath Of The Rose 31
Denmark’s Hyggeleit 32
A Drink Of Light 33
To Hear the Meadowlark 34
Pathway For The Human Rising To Yes 35
Mesa Verde (Green Table) 36
Yaroslavl: The Glory Of The Sun 37
Abandoned Doll 38
In Celebration of Black Elk’s Vision 39
Such A Bird Exists 42
The Loon 43
Mrs. Pat Heck’s Soup 44
Papago Indian Basket 45
Where For A Moment 46
AYA 47
Harvest 48
Rain Woman (A Chant) 49
Being (For My Teacher) 50
Light Upon the Shadow 51
Nature’s Covenant 52
Anne and Buckminster Fuller 53
Unexpected 54
One Is A Seed 56
Peace 57
The Bolshoi Theater 58
Before The Mirror 59
Lady Queen of Ireland 60
At The Edge of the Stream 61
The Birch Tree 62
Abandoned Barn 63
The Dragonfly 64
The Obvious 65
Intimacy 66
The Chadwick Eyebrows 67
Ma Rainy In The Blues Alley 68
Canada’s Atmosphere 69
New England Hurricane 1952 70
Ode To The Female Elephant 72
Mary and Elizabeth 73
Ode To The Hummingbird 74
Perception (For Corrie Ten Boom) 76
A Father Memory 77
Hanging Out The Clothes 78
The Monarch Butterfly 79
Transmutation, A Silent Vision 80
Only Once 81
Mary Wollstonecraft 82
The Night of Nights 83
Memorial Day 84
Over de auteur
Peggy Rubin is founding director of the Center for Sacred Theatre in Ashland, Oregon. Since 1987 she has also been the principal teaching associate of Jean Houston, Ph.D., in Dr. Houston’s worldwide multicultural transformational work and in her schools of spiritual studies, as well as a member of the core faculty of the School for Social Artistry, an intensive leadership training program. Working with Jean Houston, Peggy has presented classes, workshops and trainings throughout the world.
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