And then came the day I discovered
a sky full of birds inside and around me,
all of them singing love, love, love.
Around my shoulders appeared
a cloak of stars going supernova.
In my womb swirled a chorus of waves.
How could I not have known I was
growing a crown of antlers?
How could I have missed
my whole life has been preparing me
to transform who I am for love?
Now all I want is to open enough
to let love do with me what it will.
I want to be in service to the radiance
that even now begins to shine through.
I want to lose what I thought I knew
of my story. And though fear is also here,
I want to surrender to the strange
and insistent voice of love saying,
These are the gifts you’ve been given.
Now, sweetheart, now, be the change.
—Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
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Well, today was such fun, friends! I spent it with my friend Kellie Day (you can hear an interview I did with her on Emerging Form here), and we created these fabulous, powerful versions of ourselves (almost six feet tall!, using paint, collage, spray paint, marker). Between each stage of art, we wrote poems inspired by process, parts of which entered our paintings (see my word-lined cloak and Kellie’s “goddess bodice”). It was such a day of self-discovery, surprising potential and infinite possibility. Maybe you’d want to join us in person May 30 when we offer a class together? If yes, let me know and I can put you on a list for information.
OH OH your cloak, antlers and poem made my heart sing sure needed on March 1,2025!! Thank You.
March on!!! It’s time to bring our ferocious selves!!!
GASP squared!
I cannot love this too much — hurrah hurrah hurrah!!!
awwww …. thank you for the gasp squared! I just LOVED creating this powerful being and trusting somehow she is alive in me ready to do battle with those horns
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she HAS to be in you in order for you to create her — just as your poetry marinates inside you before it's birthing in form.
The genius of art is a mind-boggling thing indeed.
I think so, too … she is in there, and it was TRHiLLING to discover her!!!!
Now, yes… The fifty ninth minute of that eleventh hour.
that is exactly how it feels
Oh, yes.
❤️❤️❤️ oh this discovery of courage and ferocity and love I didn’t know was there … and now it feels awakened
Would love to know more about May 30th event please.
still in the planning, but it will be in person in Ridgway or Placerville, CO for the full day … more details soon!
I think, in you, it never slept very deeply at all. 💖
That was a reply to your own last comment reply. Oops 🙄
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I would love more information on the event you mentioned. Thank you! Jean Junis
Hi Jean, it’s in person in Ridgway, CO … we don’t have a registration yet, but when we do I will put it on the blog!
Me too please
Just love your wild being still unfolding that mystery within;all that DNA from your ancestors that is unique/nature does not make duplicates!
Awe and mystery/called your genotype & what has been expressed & is expressing is your phenotype !
This phenotype or phenotypic depends on the environment/ that can drastically change as you share your own journey!
I love your poems they go to my heart and bones !
You are touching so many lives!
Rowley mh
Thank you so much for the kind words … and yes to the mystery within!