Blackbutterfly Soul Songs Page 3
of melanin the energy of chakras the beating
of heart and mind
blackbutterfly yielding to marriage
of spirit and body the wisdom
of the ancestors the purpose
of the soul
the expansion
of rainbow galaxies light
black butterfly
now in this moment for all who vision and create new thoughts
new story
re-invented re-written
new life
blackbutterfly now re-membering
Olodumare, Orunmilla, Ori, Orisha, Obatala, Oshun, Oba
there is no crying blackbutterfly is flying.
The Calling
Awake my daughter and arise
No longer tarry among
The ashes and the dust
Awake and be
The seers and the prophetesses
Who know the
Experiencing of the truth
From the source of the soul
For it waits in the silence
To give release
Awake at the opening of the way.
Leap across the universe of being
Soar to heights now known.
For light is its resting place
And life gives energy
To birth of its self
Its own kind
Awake to the only true birth
Which is of love.
Initiate’s Song
I got to wake up
I got to wake up
Got to find out
Who I am.
Got to get up
Got to get up
Got to find out
Who I am.
When I woke up
When I got up
When I found out
Who I am
I found out I found out
I found out just
who
I am
I Am
that
I Am.
I am that I am. I am that I
am
I am I am
The Higher Calling
I can hear my higher calling
I can hear my higher calling
I can hear my higher calling
I’ll go with love I’ll go
with love I’ll go with love
All the way.
Where love leads me
I will follow
Where love leads me
I will follow
Where love leads me
I will follow
I’ll go with love
I’ll go with love
I’ll go with love
All the way.
I can hear my higher calling
I can hear my higher calling
I can hear my higher calling
I’ll go with love
I’ll go with love
All the way.
Sankofa
I want to go and play
I want to run away
But I have to stay here to be
And see the inner workings of me
Am tired of the mess
I long for the rest
Looking back over the past
Wondering how long it can last
The misery and the pain
The lost and the shame
Yet soul’s only call is
For the wholeness of all
Soul lessons begin
As I turn within
And become one with self
And acknowledge the depth
Of below and above
Of life’s true love
The time is now
The way is how
To move forward in life
This ends the old strife
There is no need to escape
The wonderful fate
A lesson revealed
A sentence repealed.
The Healing Stream of Love for Sister Ruby
The mighty river of life comes streaming
Its regenerative rays of love beaming
Healing with its message bright
Awesome woman at one in the light
Relax, my beloved, in the wondrous peace
Let all thoughts and labor cease
Rest deep within the bosom of God
The angels proclaiming with a nod
Yes, the time for restoration is here
The plan for recovery is now clear
Enter the healthful state of knowing
Where heaven and earth are glowing
Releasing the holds of stress and wear Rebuilding the embers of life’s care
Replacing the trite and worn-out beliefs
Removing idle images and old griefs
Regenerating body, spirit and soul
Repairing the brokenness and makes all whole
Restoring the vitality of God’s chosen one Replenishing the vessel for His will is done
Blessed and highly favored woman
A servant called and summoned
To be the consciousness of love
To live light as a feather and gentle as a dove
As soul seeks its refuge from life’s constant harms
While resting in the arms
Now safe from the storms
Loves awakes to be more
Than ever before.
I Understand
I understand, I understand
I understand that the daughter of God
Must be formed, must be formed
That she must be born in me
I understand, I understand
I understand this is the way
To birth the soul
And that I must now say
I understand, I understand
The divine will must be done
I must be transformed,
I must be transformed
Before we can become one
I understand, I understand
And now can hear the call
I understand, I understand
Truth is the foundation of all.
FYI
For your information
To end all separation
Don’t assume the function
Before you know the junction
Soul is the point
In every joint
Where things traumatized
Are purified and harmonized
By the truth that grows from a tree
Buried deep inside of me
Energetic and flowing
Loving and glowing
Sacred in the bosom of soul
Forever eternal gold.
Committal
So close Not to be committed
So near yet so far apart
Oh! Does life have to be so?
I got to I’m going to find me
Another way of being
Instead of love slipping away
I’m gonna to find me love that will stay.
I’m gonna to find me a lover who wants
to be committed
and move into
the deep places of my heart
I’m feeling love in my heart
I’m feeling love in my soul
I’m feel love in the real parts
Of me.
Not just by night
Not just by day
But by every possible way.
Connecting to the light from heaven shining in my soul
Unifying with a pl
ace of love and peace
For the light that shines
It is shining out of me.
The light in heaven
Shines brightly in my soul
Love is rejoicing For I am whole.
Now and forever Ever soaring
On to the one light
To the light of committed love.
Sowing Seeds of Love
As I heal from the pain
As I turn from the shame
I am sowing
I am sowing seeds of love.
As I forgive and let go
As I live in the flow
I am sowing
I am sowing
Sowing seeds of love
Sowing seeds of love
I am sowing seeds of love
I am sowing,
I am sowing seeds of love
As I hear from that above
I am now a seed of love
I am sowing
I am sowing seeds of love.
As the night turns into day
As truth now has its way
I am sowing
I am sowing seeds of love.
I’m sowing
I am sowing seeds of love
The love that you give
The life that you live
You are sowing
You’re sowing seeds of love
As I tell my story
Of exile from glory
I remember I am the sower
Of the brand new story
As I enter glory as I tell my story
Of how I got over to tell my story
I am at one with my former glory
As I sow my seeds of love.
ABC’s of Love (The Abecedarian of Love)
A.Always absolutely Love.
B.Be the beauty and be the bounty of Love.
C.Cherish and care for Love.
D.Develop and desire deep Love.
E.Express the energies and emotions of Love.
F.Find forgiveness and freedom in Love.
G.Give generously to Love.
H.Help others to be healing Love.
I.Imagine the initiation of Love.
J.Jump with the jubilant joy of Love.
K.Know that the key to kindness is Love.
L.Let the leader in your life be Love.
M.Make many moves in the name of Love.
N.Never negate the call for Love.
O.Open your heart and observe the actions of Love.
P.Practice patience and peace to create a space for Love.
Q.Quiet the mind and quiver with Love.
R.Reveal the radiant rays of Love.
S.Sing a soulful song of Love.
T.Tell the tall tale of Love.
U.Understand the underpinnings of Love.
V.Vow to vibe and volunteer for Love.
W.Wake up and walk in the waves of Love.
X.X-ray your words so they create excellent Love.
Y.Yield and say “yes” to the yearnings of Love.
Z.Zealously zero in on the Love.
freedom song
soul journeying on
glad lives reaching out past fear
to embrace soul songs
singing divine love sweet tunes
light melodies that free life
Freedom Song
Part III
Soul Awakenings
awakening
butterfly transformed
pushed through the silk chrysalis
claiming divine rights
queen moth crowned majesty in
her familiar garden
Meditation
Along with the complexities of the soul, a practice that influenced my awakening was meditation. I had already discovered the calming benefits of meditation (withdrawal from outer world, look within to the Silence) after some traumatic childhood experience. As an adult, I was formally initiated into meditation by a guru taught in India, Stephen Sandler. This soul path of divine grace and enlightenment provided me with the knowledge and insight to make meditation an integral part of my transformation and awakening.
Meditation classes, seminars, tapes and retreats ground the meditator in the mind-changing practice of meditation. Daily practice of meditative techniques floods the consciousness and seeps into the subconscious. It is in the subconscious where the alchemy takes place. Hatred is transformed into love, brokenness into wholeness, limitation into abundance, darkness into light and fear to courage. The calm and peace that result from relaxing the mind spills out into every facet of life. It became the medium through which you awaken to the hidden truth of life. And a greater awareness of the presence of soul.
When you sit to meditate, you emerge with the silent, inner part of creation from which the essence of all life flows. The healing practice of meditation ushers in forgiveness and gratitude which open the gates of closed, cold hearts. Purposes can be revealed. In meditation, a distinct, calm voice spoke within me, “As you awake, help others to awake.” I birthed love and was given a new name, Shamala, spirit-given Love Queen. In meditation, hearts and minds merge with the eternal presence of divinity.
There are many benefits of meditation. It breaks bounds and attachments to individual/group consciousness. Your consciousness expands and you transcend limited, self-defeating thoughts, ideas and fears. Faculties and talents come alive. A great eye-opener in meditation was that when you come to meditation to sit with your life, your thoughts about yourself and others come with you.
The soul, the ori, is accessed through meditation, ritual, beliefs and emotions. In meditation, you are the soul/sole observer of your life. Rituals, like prayer, singing and meditation, provide a space where emotions and feelings cry out from our heart/mind (soul) for love, unity and harmony. We are taught to hide our emotions by wearing the mask of lies, denial and suppression. Emotions can tell us where we stand in relationship to our soul.
Childhood Memories
television wow
fantasy box slanted view
women clean, men rule
greater here to serve lesser
television creator
christmas, invented time
when some children get good toys
santa comes cross tracks
brings hoods, sheets and threats of fire
easter brings death for coloreds
my first friend at five
we played hopscotch, caught red worms
at nine her aunt said
no crossing the color line, girl
sad we both lost each other
strange being colored
in the stores white people look
like darkened storm clouds
we waited our term while the
others joined the sneers, cursing
reading first hobby
lying on the grass outside
thoughts run through my mind
putting letter together
solving word problem easy
evening time is fun
sitting on big couch we play
word games that show how
much each person knows ’bout life
dinner smells make thinking hard
pressing hair hurts head
hot comb in tangled curl burns
melted oil on scalp
searing skin marring soul’s plan
make straight line from round circle
big sisters good help
friends who teach us bold courage
they give us the nerve
to say ‘no’ to our boyfriends
Yet forget their own limits
In Retrospect
I left from myself
(with pressed curls)
Stayed away from myself
(with ignorance)
Stepped out of myself
(with vanity)
Stood behind myself
(with rage)
Took a look at myself
(with shame)
Turned around to myself
(with new identity)
Came back to myself
(with courage)
Vowed never to leave myself
(for 40 acres and a mule)
While, big sister’s in the kitchen,
Cooking smoked bones
Ronnie’s in the jailhouse
For getting caught doing wrong
Baby’s in a corner, eating wall plaster
Bourgeois’s in the corporate world
Uncle Tomming to the master.
Eastern boys in the ghetto
Peddling their wares
Expatriates in another culture
Trying to forget their cares.
Establishment’s in confusion
Wondering what’s going on
Rip Van Winkle Negroes woke up
To their manhood, long gone.
Queendom
There I sat
In the midst of my life
Waited for someone
To pick me up
And point me in
The right direction
Once hopelessly bound
By small decisions
How to live little
The grandeur
Of queenship.
Let Go
Are you fully living in the now?
Or straying far away from here to yesterday’s beliefs of tomorrow’s assumptions
Blinded again by the dazzle of the five
Sometimes believing to be
Separated