Not Waiting

Love is all there is....

NOT WAITING

I am not waiting for the world to love me back.

Yeah, I know I have heard about that idiot compassion
and how not to love too much or be a burning saint.

It is true that skulls hang from roofs, bones dance
in the streets; people shoplift, beg and grow moss.

The news is crazy with itself. It foams at the mouth
wears the best clothes; is unrepentant for all the darkness.

It is rumored that the succulent and juicy are for sale
sort of like a fruit no one seems to get enough of.

And, even though everyone keeps saying this is IT,
the end of everything, the end of the world;

that we should scrape, bite and chain smoke…
somehow I believe that even a star killed by clichés

recovers its light in the blank void of somewhere.
It sort of reminds me of where I am going

even though I only vaguely remember that place,
sort of sovereign but unsolved and unnamed

like lips pressed to lips when we turn silent
to be near the scent of loving one another.

Maybe sometimes we just don’t know how to love
in the absence, in the moment, in return…

Copyright by Zayra Yves 2008
All Rights Reserved

“Color Me Pomegranate” is Featured at One Mind Village

One Mind Village focuses on an Integral approach to living and being. The editors have generously included the poetry book Color Me Pomegranate by Zayra Yves in their recent edition. She is featured along side other great spirits such as Ken Wilber, Stuart Davis, Nic Askew and many more.

Click on this link to immerse yourself in a soul filled experience!

www.onemindvillage.com

If you wish to find out more about Zayra’s latest poetry book and where to purchase it, please visit her website at www.zayrayves.com.

Be gone from me….Virgilio y Homero Exposito

San Miguel de Allende painting by Zayra Yves

…..In your life I’ll be the best from the mists of yesterday when you’ve forgotten me, like the best poem, always the one we can’ t remember.

- Be gone from me

Virgilio y Homero Exposito

Who will save you? What are you thinking?

Painting by Zayra Yves

“One of the most curious things in the structure of our psyche is that we all want to be told because we are the result of the propaganda of ten thousand years. We want to have our thinking confirmed and corroborated by another, whereas to ask a question is to ask it of yourself. What I say has very little value. You will forget it the moment you shut this book, or you will remember and repeat certain phrases, or you will compare what you have read here with some other book – but you will not face your own life. And that is all that matters – your life, yourself, your pettiness, your shallowness, your brutality, your violence, your greed, your ambition, your daily agony and endless sorrow – that is what you have to understand and nobody on earth or in heaven is going to save you from it but yourself.”

J KRISHNAMURTI

Color Me Pomegranate Arrives in San Francisco

Color Me Pomegranate

NEW BOOK RELEASE: Color Me Pomegranate

 

The pomegranate, as a symbol and for its color, has historical meaning for women both in mythology and literature. Zayra’s literary poetic collection, Color Me Pomegranate, travels through the many layers of mythical women turned into real women living these myths out in every day life. On the pages of this collection, we encounter Aphrodite, Medusa, Meda, Persphone, Athena, Inanna, Ishtar, Gaia, Sophia, Durga, Kali, Mary, The Black Madonna, Eve, Anne Sexton, Marilyn Monroe, Sylvia Plath, Kiki de Montpamasse, Lee Miller, Berthe Morisot, Joan of Arc and the Scarlet Woman in all vessels, in every woman’s body. It is the fall and resurrection of all women within the mystical experiences, which are often times as full of suffering, as they are gritty, and soft on the emotional path toward the alchemy of self discovery, self acceptance and self love for the spiritual evolution and content of the feminine. The book ends in the rise of all women through the Goddess in a transfiguration: “I am SHE.”

Book Review for Color Me Pomegranate:

“Zayra Yves’ latest work “Color Me Pomegranate” is strictly for the serious seeker of wisdom, full of disturbing yet profound words and mind images. Written through the dark hem of the goddess, it stirs the soul and makes it awaken. The work is a bit like contemplating Edvard Munch’s painting, “The Scream” (1893), which haunts with the collective muteness and inner longing reflected in viewing it, for the sacred in all the profanity. It is a brave Jungian-style exploration of the soul, and resounds with the wisdom of Marion Woodman’s writings on the transformation of the soul. This is a work of catharsis, piece after powerful piece, full of chaos and silent screams. Yet it closes with an affirmation and comes back out into the light of day. Pomegranates may have dark seeds, but they are red, full of passion. Zayra’s passion urges the work on, and passion must be the driver through this kind of difficult work. What we know is that the world can’t sit on Pandora’s Box forever, because it will have its say, but we can choose to bring order to chaos in our own personal transformations, which is what this work does.”

- Moni Roleff (author, holistic teacher and healer)

“Empty as Nirvana” Goes to Portland

IN OTHER WORDS Bookstore Events
AUTHOR READING:  Zayra Yves Reading “Empty as Nirvana”

Time: Saturday, June 20, 2009 3:00 p.m.
Location: In Other Words Women’s Books and Resources

“Empty as Nirvana” is a passageway between worlds, it is a fusion between the modern and ancient. It hides nothing as it explores the moments of arrival and departure in relationship, as well as in religion, tribal traditions, love and heartbreak. We are exposed to the compassionate nature as much as the haunting memories of survival after savage experiences. In this book we hear the voices of Buddhists and mothers mixed together; of Zimbabweans, South Africans, Zulu’s, White Lions and Egyptians. Zayra Yves shows us that she is capable of seeing into the soul of our soul that leaves us feeling pure rather than exposed, sane rather than lost. She is a passion-filled force embracing both her human desires as well as the divine essence. “Empty as Nirvana” has been compiled from both new material and previously published poems that have been included in magazines, journals, audio recordings, radio broadcasts, and other print publications. Yves is a multi-faceted and thought provoking writer as she delves into the raw soul exposed in all of its paradox, pain and healing. Her poetry is often spiritual without being religious while it is earthy, mystical, flowing – like a river that moves through the universe of stars. In its course, it reveals the human suffering that cries from the abyss, the majestic cathedral of the ceremonial soul, the erotic body of light, the undeniable presence of the muse, the great hope for a more expansive state of compassion, and the rapture of total abandonment of love.

If you live in Portland, come join us at IN OTHER WORDS bookstore!
We will love to have you there!

http://www.inotherwords.org

In Other Words Bookstore
8 B NE Killingsworth St
Portland, OR 97211
Tel: 503-232-6003

Big Minds, Big Hearts and Big Poetry Come Together Again

On March 7th and 8th in Los Angeles Genpo Roshi, Bill Harris and Zayra Yves are sharing the stage. Zayra is scheduled to read inspirational poetry in between Bill and Genpo’s workshop sessions.

It is a remarkable combination! Here are the details:

https://www.centerpointe.com/bigmind/details/

And, if you register early you’ll also receive a copy of Genpo’s amazing book, “Big Mind, Big Heart” and a collection of Bill Harris’ articles about spiritual growth, “Oneness Isn’t Metaphysical.”

~ Reading Poetry in the Company of Angels ~

Ernesto Sanchez's Angel

On Sunday, March 1st at 4 in the afternoon there is a poetry reading at Ernesto’s Studio in Pt Reyes Station. Reading poetry is Zayra Yves whose modern-day poems are spiritual, earthy, mystical, flowing. Joining Zayra is Renata Santerre reciting the poems of Rumi, Hafiz, Kabir, Rilke, Tagore, and Maya Angelou. These two women will present an inspiring afternoon of words from the heart, both past and contemporary. Refreshments will be served.

The Image of the Angel is made from Paper Mache and is lifesize.
Ernesto Sanchez is the artist.

Ernesto’s Studio is next to the Reyes Cafe outdoor patio.

Ernesto Sanchez
P.O. Box 43
Pt Reyes Station, CA 94956

Art Studio (next to Cafe Reyes)
415 370 4339

Zayra Yves

Retrograde Motion – Release Date: December 3rd

“RETROGRADE MOTION,” Zayra’s long awaited and newest audio poetry collection is currently in production at Disc Makers and is scheduled to arrive off the UPS truck on December 3, 2008. It is over due and past schedule but well worth the wait.

“RETROGRADE MOTION” is poetry you definitely want to own and indulge yourself in. It is worthy of personal immersion into all twenty-two richly complex pieces, which are set to a bed of music created by Gardner Cole with tribal sounds, new age vibes and an all around moody meditative feeling. The temperament varies from the morose to artistic to sarcastic to beautiful to transformational to spiritual and on into the unknown where one simply decides to be unfinished. Whatever your mood, attitude or vice, you are certain to find yourself or lose yourself in these interestingly diverse audio gifts of poetry from Zayra’s new collection “RETROGRADE MOTION.”

Here is the line up:

1. Becoming Abstract
2. The Blurred Version
3. Caught in the Fading Light
4. Consider the Sound of Water
5. Evaporation
6. How a Stone Comes to Life
7. An Invitation in Exodus
8. Listening to Charles Bukowski
9. A Lost Cry
10. A Lover & the Echo
11. Ms. V
12. My Sin
13. The Night Bird’s Last Tear
14. Not Waiting
15. Pilgrim Hitchhiking
16. Red Clay
17. Sanctuary
18. She Transforms Herself
19. Star Flowers
20. Sudden
21. Unfinished & Untangled
22. What Might Still Be

Several of the poems on “RETROGRADE MOTION” appear in her book “ORDINARY SUBSTANCE,” while others are brand new poems released in this collection for the first time, and are slated to appear in her new poetry book due for print in January of 2009.

Sign up to reserve your copy of “RETROGRADE MOTION” now! Send an email to Zayra at zayra.yves@gmail.com to find out the details or add your email address to the list for announcements.