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Revisiting a pilgrimage to Sappho's ancestral homeland #LGBTQ #sappho #amreading



Lately, I've been thinking about the importance of connecting the past with the present. This is especially true, since when going to a plant-based diet nearly seven years ago, I feel like I completely changed my life. I am here for one thing. And because of the ethical issues--the animals and the environment (which I had a consciousness-raising about after going to a plant-based diet for health reasons) --I have often wish I had done this earlier. But lately, I am just glad I got here. From the years before that (since, as a writer, I left a published trail of my thoughts), I can see the signs that I was on a journey to become a vegan, such as a line in this poem -- "she is the bee forever drawn to yellow" -- that was published in my collection of poetry "a woman alone" about a pilgrimage to the poet Sappho's ancestral home in Greece that I made roughly a quarter of a century ago. Recently, I read the poem on a YouTube video, which is below. The text is under that.







a woman alone

is her name--

undeciphered in

hieroglyphs

written on walls

in her own palace she is the bee

forever

drawn to yellow

as she moors herself

to the sound

of her own shores.


(a woman alone (collection) by Janet Mason -- 2001)



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