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Hello loved ones!
Welcome to week 6 of Resurrection Sunday.
This week's Resurrection Sunday video and poem are dedicated to Cheryll Greene,
brilliant editor, beautiful woman, cherished mentor.
And I was planning on dedicating this week's video to Cheryll,
in honour of her 70th birthday,
and, um, she transitioned to join the ancestors this past thursday on the eve of her 70th birthday,
so I know she will still hear us, see us, in a different way.
This poem is called "Mentor".
"Scaling your words like crags I found silence
speaking in a mouthful of sun
and I say you are young
for your lips are not stone to the rain's fall
I say you are lovely to speak in a mouthful of sun
nor does summer await you.
I see the midnight heavy as windows sealed against fire
and the tears coiled like snakes in your eyes
I see your forehead like snow and the names of the so many winters
your fingers play over
plucking out rays of light
to anoint me home;
Yet I say you are young
and your lips are not stone to be weathered
rather a song learned when my Aprils were fallow.
I sing this for beacon now
lighting us home
each to our separate house."
I love this poem because I think that
Audre Lorde is teaching us about mentorship and collective survival.
That the youth of our mentors is in the way we remember them.
The mouthful of sun that we speak when we honour them,
the way that we pass on that energy to those who we will mentor,
and those that they will mentor.
And I am accountable to the eternal life of Cheryll Greene.
And I hope that this week, in honour of Resurrection Sunday,
...oh a butterfly just flew through!...
In honour of Resurrection Sunday,
you can think of and honour your mentors,
who are still living or who have transitioned,
and remember their youth, the mouthful of sun that we continue to pass on,
to pass on as we share the stories, as we exchange the energy,
and as we remember.
If you wanna see the other Resurrection Sunday videos in honour of Audre Lorde,
you should check out summerofourlorde.wordpress.com
and you can see all sorts of [ SOUND CUTS OUT & RE-SYNCS ]
all sorts of information about School of Our Lorde...
Email me and get your own distilled poem
of the alphabetized 26 poems that I distilled from this poem this week.
And I hope that you and your mentors, and your mentees,
have a divinely interconnected day and week, and several many lifetimes.