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Best Poems Written by Jenny Dumaine Backlund

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In Praise of Autumn

dancing icy underfoot crackle pathways
moonlight loves the feminine presence prescience
laughter singing prayerful chants of thank you
ritual nurture

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Diamante I

down
                                                goes the
                                            curtain on this
                                     moonless night of stars
                                             I spread out
                                                and look
                                                     up

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Reciprocation

Aspens reaching skeletal fingers skyward
Grow the ancient boreal midnight mountain
reaching rooted primacy given taken
glorious prayer

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A Wish For a Child,Newly Born

know
(in your cells)
that we are made of each other
(woven, weaving)
we deepen
we drink in
we divulge 
(arms linking
ties binding
more than becoming)
with the space we fill
the ways
we move
(woven, weaving)
patterns of encoded mystery
blossoming
through 
(down and out and down again) 
perpetually
transforming 
into new

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To the Chipmunk In the Garden

I will not beseech you
stop stuffing yourself near to exploding
even though I feel a need to
take the sunflowers, blossoms eroding
heads bowed in solemn, silent foreboding
save the seeds
ignore the needs 
of one so wild
and bold as he feeds
to allay the memory of freeze on this August day so mild

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Seedbed

My body is made from fire
fire, flesh and blood
just like my mother who holds me
clay and earth and mud

My body is made from water
who flows and carries through
protecting, healing, easing
with ocean force and gentle dew

My spirit is made of sunshine
vision, heart and light
rising from rich, dark rootedness
into the world of sight

My spirit is made of ether
emerging from within
to reach the breath of consciousness
the connectedness of kin

When I lay my body down
in sacrifice, in birth
I offer myself to Creation
I return myself to Earth

But my spirit joins the many
moving freely through storm and dreams
to flow like balm, like smiles, like solace
to all earthborn beings

For now I am a seedbed
for all that spins and comes to be
as all that came before me
was for me when born a seed

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Forward

When I take you into me
I am the Yanomami who
drinks a tea made from
the ground up
bones of his
beloved dead

I take you in

as sacrifice
as secret gift

I carry you forward

I shine you on

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For G

it strikes me that when you smile
rivers seem to rush through me
drops of light fall from above
my heart is opened

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For C

the sound of your bright laughter
is a dance upon my heart
music lifting me upward
all else falls away