I believe these inspirational paintings of Rassouli connect perfectly with beautiful poem ‘Imagine A Woman’, by Patricia Lynn Reilly. Their interrelation give me a vision of my inner world and kindly reminds me who I am.
Imagine A Woman
Imagine a woman who believes it is right and good she is a woman.
A woman who honors her experience and tells her stories.
Who refuses to carry the sins of others within her body and life.
Imagine a woman who trusts and respects herself.
A woman who listens to her needs and desires.
Who meets them with tenderness and grace.
Imagine a woman who acknowledges the past’s influence on the present.
A woman who has walked through her past.
Who has healed into the present.
Imagine a woman who authors her own life.
A woman who exerts, initiates, and moves on her own behalf.
Who refuses to surrender except to her truest self and wisest voice.
Imagine a woman who names her own gods.
A woman who imagines the divine in her image and likeness.
Who designs a personal spirituality to inform her daily life.
Imagine a woman in love with her own body.
A woman who believes her body is enough, just as it is.
Who celebrates its rhythms and cycles as an exquisite resource.
Imagine a woman who honors the body of the Goddess in her changing body.
A woman who celebrates the accumulation of her years and her wisdom.
Who refuses to use her life-energy disguising the changes in her body and life.
Imagine a woman who values the women in her life.
A woman who sits in circles of women.
Who is reminded of the truth about herself when she forgets.
Imagine yourself as this woman.
Poem ‘Imagine a Woman’ by Patricia Lynn Reilly
Paintings by Rassouli
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Beautiful poem and I agree, these pictures work wonderfully with it.
Thank you.
You have inspired me to step further into my own power.
It is very ispiring poem :-)
Wow, so beautiful. Thank you for sharing =)
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