Inspiration & News for the E-zine 'A River of Milk'

Written Inspiration
You can read some interesting approaches of the subject by famous poets here! https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/text/poems-birth-and-parenting 

'Poems about birth and parenting are poems about creation, or beginning, or nurturing, or innocence, and poets have found such metaphorical resonance irresistible.' 



Painted Inspiration
Here I share with you some images that could possibly make you want to birth a poem:

Some sweet one's:

 
 Two works by the lovely Yasmeen Amina Olya..                           www.yasmeensong.com

Motherhood presented wildly romantic.

Some darker ones...

A mother's wild protective nature..

This picture of a body-painted woman in black and white reminds me of the Ina May Gaskin-quote about birth 'Let your inner monkey do it'.

Switch of the thoughts and be one with nature.

& famous:

Gustav Klimt - The three ages of woman

Have you noticed that often the old woman is left out of this picture, on postcards and online images?
Very significant for our society's view on what should be shown and what not. This dark woman in the third age is definitely asking for a voice in 'A River of Milk'.

Henry Ford Hospital by Frida Kahlo 

This small painting (16" × 12") reflects one facet of her struggles: a history of recurrent pregnancy loss.

News!

'A River of Milk' is also open for visual artist's Submissions! 

I am looking for a cover- and promoting-picture to replace the one with the whale.

It would be utterly amazing if you could create something that captures both the dark as the wild-romantic side of motherhood/pregnancy and/or birth.

Pitiful enough I can't pay the writer's and artist's at the moment, but who knows what will grow out of this project in the future? If you feel inspired by the whole idea and it gets you on a wave of creation, this is where your joy is! To follow your joy will make you feel 'rich', which brings you on your path to abundance. I am still a believer myself ;).

For the submission-guidelines for poets, go to the original call for submission-post

http://mothergoddesspoetry.blogspot.co.at/2016/03/a-river-of-milk-poetry-e-zine-about.html

Thanks for your sharings!

writes,

your Laura

Taoist Poetry

This year the first Taoist Poetry book, written by my beloved life partner Heath Thompson, will be published by Tandava Press. It is amazing to see the easy and gentle way this little gems of spiritual poetry just come to him. To get the first final selection of poems from all his notebooks into a word-document has taken over a years time. Has to be said though, that a lot happened in that year and it has not only been about poetry..
Now the book 'The Path That Weaves Through Clouds' is in the waiting-line to be edited and we are in happy expectation! I got the honour to make some illustrations to his poetry, that will also be in the book.
A happy spring to all of you, the time of witnessing blossoming!
Here you can see and read a little preview:

Wu Cailuan had no interest

in emptiness or fullness, mirrors

or dust.

Being free from distinctions,

she folded mountains into a fan

and stuffed them up her sleeve.

For more of Heath's poetry go to www.taoistpoetry.com

Children's book about homebirth: Born at home..

A first impression

 

A flower in waves

When mama's waves start
she has to open like a flower
I wonder, are the flowers.
also riding waves when they open?

This Poppy flower smiles, feeling fine,
in the song of her own beauty.

I come from the other side

                                                               *by lauri*

Haigu, A love with a view

                                                                                                  *by lauri*

This too shall pass

I´m working on a serie of postcards that will be for sale here! This will be one of them. A Geisha is watching the gooses flying over. There is both stillness and movement. The Geisha here stands for mindfullness. She is aware of the fact that life is movement and that everything passes by, like clouds, or in this case, gooses in the sky. The card will be perfect to send at people going through a difficult time, people who just lost someone or just as a reminder to be still and mindfull.

The sentence  >This too shall pass< was on my mind when I painted this. According to wikipedia >This too shall pass is an indicating that all material conditions, positive or negative are temporary. The phrase seems to have originated in the writings of the medieval Persian Sufi poets.<

Wow, how perfect this fits, the image and these words!
I say thanks again to the divine inspirational flow of Awen.
For today lovely soul, enjoy the moments given to you, one by one..

Love, Lauri