Maybe Call it 'Matriarch's Day' Instead
Welcome back to 'The Life of H: Sarah, Reimagined,' where I explore the story of the biblical matriarch through poetry and a poet’s prose.
This week's post from the archives is a seasonal favorite. Republishing a former post lets me take a little time off to celebrate Mothers … I mean Matriarch’s Day.
But, wait! There’s new information here, too! Read to the end to register for Tuesday’s free workshop, and more.
The case of the missing matriarch
When a writer in one of my workshops used the phrase the missing matriarch in a piece she was writing, my imagination lit up with possibilities. The other women in the class were intrigued, too.
Each writer had her own resonance with the phrase, based on how she had lived out the mother archetype:
🌙 as a motherless daughter,
🌙 as a mother who had lost a child,
🌙 as an unconventional mother,
🌙 as a fulfilled mother, and/or
🌙 as a woman who did not become a mother – either by choice or circumstance.
All too often, we agreed, stories of powerful women and mothers; the matriarchs in our lives and lineages who could wisely guide us, have been misunderstood, overlooked or erased.
The Life of H is my attempt to write Sarah, a foremother and a matriarch, back into the narrative.
My poems invite the reader to imagine a more robust version of her story; one that also calls us more deeply into our own experiences as women — with and without children of our own.
H, as in Womb:
Today’s poem “H, as in Womb,” considers other possibilities for an empty womb rather than simply being written off as a barren space.
Listen to ‘H as in Womb’
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With grateful acknowledgment to Dolly R, a member of the Dreaming on the Page community, whose poem-in-progress, “The Missing Matriarch” inspired this post, parts of which were originally published at tziviagover.com in 2022.