Songs of Gaia: Devotional Poems to Nourish the Heart

By Julie Tara

In our world today, there is a yearning to connect to beauty; a rising tide of sensitivity and awareness of the immense difficulties we are facing; a need to find a sense of redemption. Poetry offers this. It opens the window to paradox, giving voice to both the souls grief and its longing for the ecstatic.

Julie Taras poetry falls in the tradition of the mystical poets who, through the magic of words, open the eyeand the soulto the awareness of the infinite; of timelessness; of presence.

To enter into Songs of Gaia is to enter into a world where the desert wind becomes a wild womans breath; where the rivers youve drunk deeply from become the blood of the Mothers veins, and where the sound of your beating heart becomes the rhythm of the very universe in which you live.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: May 5, 2015
• ISBN: 9781504330794

Julie Tara

Julie Tara is a sought-after inspirational speaker, empowerment coach, author, poet, and mother of three. She lives in Boulder, Colorado, basking in the creative, abundant power of the Rocky Mountains.

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ISBN: 978-1-5043-3078-7 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-5043-3080-0 (hc)

ISBN: 978-1-5043-3079-4 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2015905199

Balboa Press rev. date: 8/17/2015

Contents

NATURE

Song of Gaia

First Reaches of Dawn

The Nest

Golden Tigers

Pathway to Heaven

Hazel Wand

Wild World

If I Were a Tree

Distant Wilds

Song

The Visit

Dance

Newgrange

Desert Dancer

Circling

Fukushima

Did You Forget

I Am the One

Dancing Dragonflies

Completion

When the Word Comes

Effortless

HUMANITY

Kindred Spirits

Watch Your Step

Behold the Message

Recognition

All I See

Heartbeat

Dawn

Dissolved in Starlight

In Love Again

The Day of My Undoing

My Love and I

Velvet Sky

Lift Me

Gift of My Heart

Jewelled Dance

Sacred Vastness

Now

Your Presence

Laughter

Wild Child

Traveller

Emergence

Heart to Heart

Buddha Pearl

Crucible

Mistress

Welcome

A Child’s Passing

The Day I Felt Death

Wine

I Saw You Dancing

Fiery Peace

Out of the Night

Freedom

Yoga

Belonging

SPIRIT

The New Jerusalem

The Meeting

My Deepest Vow

Listen to the Fire

Soaring

Psalm

Safe

Never Too Late

Stillness of the Heart

Homage to Tara

Only One

Elixir

Angel

Edge of Change

Feather

Vagrant Visions

Ancient Memory

Supreme Joy

Heart Flow

Quest for Liberation

Blessing

Full Faith

Dedication

To Gaia, Divine Goddess of our earth,

who illuminates my life song

through her love, beauty and grace

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Introduction

I remember vividly when poetry first made a profound impact on me. I was 13 years old, deeply immersed in ballet training at the prestigious Royal Ballet School in London, England. At the tender age of 10, I left home to become a full-time boarder at the school, and was frequently deeply laden with a sense of aloneness, vulnerability, and great expectations for my future life as a professional dancer.

I found simple outlets for the loneliness and grief of missing my family: dancing (many hours a day, of course); classical music (I spent most weekends sequestered in the music room playing clarinet and piano); and climbing the huge trees that surrounded the school. The school is situated in the middle of Richmond Park, an exquisite Royal Park filled with deer, sheep, wild birds, lakes, ancient ferns, and magnificent old-growth trees.

However, it was when the poets from centuries past spoke to me for the first time, describing their visceral experiences of