Segullah's Blog, page 5
November 10, 2024
They Cannot Make Me Small
If you fear they have locked me away, repressed my image, restricted my power, reduced me to a whisper,then take courage, my child. They cannot make me small. I am in the clouds beyond mortal horizons.I am in the breeze waltzing where it will.I am in the perfume of every changing season,and above all else ...
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High Priestess
for Crystal She had come to fold my mounting laundry—the Relief Society, embodied—on one of those early hollow dayswhen I sat frozen and numb, my new baby(and both of my others) suddenly too heavy to hold,having searched my heart for mother-love and found only tears. She was a stranger then, just a name I had ...
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August 1, 2024
Announcing Segullah August 2024 Edition
Please join us for our August 2024 Edition of Segullah, an online literary and art journal for Latter-day Saint women. Enjoy!
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August 2024 Edition
Editorial Why are creative endeavors—important in our lives (both mortal and immortal)? Why do we do what we do as writers, artists, and purveyors of these things? There are a lot of different answers to these questions, but I find for myself it is ultimately about connection and growth. Author Chaim Potok wrote, “Art happens ...
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Diantha Hopkins – 1st place 2024 Segullah Art Competition winner
We received a number of impressive entries for the Segullah 2024 Art Contest. Diantha Hopkins’ piece “Priesthood” received the 1st place award for its unique mixed media excellence, using the most mundane supplies – paper, glue, newsprint, metal keys, hardware bits – and giving it a title that transcends definition. In an era when so ...
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Poetry Editorial August 2024
In recent months, I have focused on the topic of creating. Why is it so vitally important to be in the process of creating in order to feel content? Is it considered creating when we pull threads from various ideas and weave them together in a new way, or must we begin from scratch? Is ...
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Soft
I think I favor flowers undone, storm flushedand bowed beneath fat drops of tawdry rain, gaudyin aliveness, tended to fullness, sweet smelling tosickness, petals awry so fully I censor them in my mind,seeing in them my own pretty indecency— Because after a long sleep precipitated by migraine, I wakeand risk unfolding myself, unclenched, no nerves ...
October Pentecost
The leaveswhispering goldenin my earstold methey belonged to meexisted for mewere dedicated to my happinessand swept into my consciousnesswith tongues of firelike a new soul –burnt umber, orange, and redtheir colors ripein my eyes. They motioned meto consume them –a deep breathof color, scent, and soundinflating my senseslike noise from Heavenmaking new voices in me. ...
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Scattering Ashes
Looking out living room windowsacred Datura’s winter branchesdrape clumsy on each other,their brown tangle seeps in grey airnear the pile of rocks too heavy to move—misshapen eggs, dropped unbrokenfrom an unseen giant in the sky.Three months now in my bisected life. I scattered your heavy white—North Rim sunset, kiva at Lost City Museum.For five days ...
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Volcano
“We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.”—Ursula K. Le Guin All my life, volcanoeschased my dreams—furious fire raining,reigning, melting meinto something smalland frightened. I still dream of them—mountains bursting,maps rewritten,scorched lungsand frantic fleeing.I wake tired, earth achingin my fragile ...
