[stylist] Poem "Crystal Healer" for the entire list

[Jackie Williams]

Lynda,
I finally got back to this cluster. It was just what I was looking for. A definition of the meaning of all precious and semi-precious stones. How I wish my  brother was still alive to read this.
He cut and polished rocks, had a tumbler, and made all kinds of jewelry and rings. My father left the rock collection to him, and it was an amazing variety of crystals, fossils, obsidian, and anything you can name. Except for you! 
My mother b built the museum for it, and when she died, my brother slowly sunk into Pick's disease, and it was sold for a pittance to a neighbor who sold off most parts of the collection.
I have a Texas Longhorn skull on my mantle, and it is embedded with many of the rocks you mention. It has a lot of Peridot inset probably because it came from the San Carlos Reservation.
I will keep this for the wonderful descriptions, and meanings of our natural heritage from the earth.
I thank you so much for responding to this prompt. Incidentally, I had not heard of the form, abecedarian  , that you mention.
It is impossible to read a selection of yours without learning a great deal.

Jackie Lee

Time is the school in which we learn.
Time is the fire in which we burn.
Delmore Schwartz	 

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Sorry, but I have the hardest time sending anything that is not an attachment to someone else’s piece! It normally never goes through, so I hope you all get this post today.  Jackie asked for some of us to share  information on crystals and stones, so I thought of this poem.

I wrote this poem in 2013 – was part of a solo exhibition of my work - 
I wrote it to give viewers the information on gemstones and crystals that they saw in my work - 

Do you have a favorite stone? What is it and why do you like it so much?

My top favorite is a smooth river washed stone I gathered from the creek on day when out in my canoe.
My favs are Labradorite and  Yellow Calcite. Labradorite looks like peering through river waters, to the bottom of the creek, on a sunny day.
Yellow Calcite feels so soft and beautiful to the touch – you cannot stop feeling it! And, oh, the color – I cannot even describe it.
Lynda
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Crystal Healer



by Lynda McKinney Lambert





Amber reds dripped from ancient trees 

Solidified, and fossilized.

Boji Stones brought healing to painful memories,

          grounded high spiritual vibrations.

Crystal quartz cleared the room of negative energies,

          brought healing to those who lost hope.

Dragon’s Blood was also christened as costly Cinnabar

          she helped change your image.

Emerald stood surrounded by palest green rays of light,

          protected from evil enchantments, foretold the future.

Fluorite made me smile when I touched her soft curves,

          celestial rainbow of clear, blue, green brown, and yellow.

Garnet gemstones surrounded us with beauty from the earth,

          mined and carved, and tumbled smooth.

Hematite, a heavy magnetic stone, harmonized and balanced the

 spirit, supported timid women and boosted self esteem.

Iolite, so very small and translucent; a delicate stone,

          changed her colors with the angle of light.

Jadeite, translucent, soft, and green; hidden away,

          smooth and silky in my pocket.

Kunzite’s delicate shades in lilac, pink, or yellow 

translucent, transparent, mood lifting effects.

Labrodarite, my favorite gem, reminded me of the deep

          water’s reflections on a summer day.

Malachite held layers of copper between her spiteful greens,

          powerful stone of the new millenium.

Nebula stones are small with unique metaphysical properties,

          gazed into it and you’ll be moved to new places in the universe.

Obsidian sang of a black winter night with snowflakes falling on

          the shiny opaque glass-like surface 

Precious opal stones, cleansed in the light at full moon 

a fiery glow, in the morning light.



Quartz clusters gathered deep secrets,

          in their helical spiral crystalline forms.

Rainbows flourished inside the dense earth

a harvest of vibrant mysteries. 

Serpentine, a talisman of water worn black-green stones,

          were  said to assure the wearer of longevity.

Tiger’s Eye beads in yellow-brown, pink, blue, red,

           were used as protection against ill will.

Unikite is a circus of tumbled stones  

placed gently in bowl, brought calm to your home.

Varsite sang the songs of encouragement,

          hope and courage to those who gave up. 

Wulfenite brings knowledge from ancient temples of Egypt or Greece,

          brought spiritual vibrations down to earth.

X represents the signature of the Creator’s hand

          as God fashioned and planted each precious gem.

Yellow Calcite, the silent stone, brought healing,  

from darkness inside the fertile earth, 



Zeolite can be colorless, white, blue and  peach,

          a group of all kinds of crystals, living together

in a matrix of  a harmonic rainbow.  



This poem is the  abecedarian  form.

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