Connecting past and present -- Sappho, a woman alone #amreading #LGBTQ #poetry
- Janet Mason
- Nov 8
- 1 min read
In the interest of continuing to connect my past with my present, I am posting a poem from my collection a woman alone that I wrote twenty-five years ago when I was on a pilgrimage to the poet Sappho's homeland in Lesvos, Greece.
Sappho was a lesbian poet who lived around 600 BCE.
I just read a quote on mindfulness that you cannot embrace the present without claiming who and where you came from.
Seems appropriate.
The text of the poem is below the video from YouTube.
a woman alone lives
in the house
of the double ax;
she enters her own labyrinth
and comes out amazed;
she is the minotaur
the earth womb turned to a monster;
she is her own silver thread
leading herself to the center
of the maze that is her,
a woman alone.
(a woman alone (collection) by Janet Mason -- 2001)
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