~ Mary Handy Moore
Sunday, September 7, 2025
Saturday, July 12, 2025
Everything
Everything has a
course to run.
Every road has a
crossroads.
Every inbreath has an
exhalation till
Every breath has a
cessation.
Every evening has the
following morning.
Every sunrise has a
sunset.
Every created thing
will sleep when
the Kingdom of Time
comes to fold
all up in the
Mother's Bosom.
To wait ... for
another Eternity.
Spiritual Power
Spiritual power that
Humbleness keeps
asunder
As that power can
ride
Astride the thunder.
It's able to clasp a
lightning
Bolt of purest blue,
Whose strike returns
The Kingliest Hue
Of red like that from
holiest
Veins was bled.
Spiritual power that
humbleness
Keeps asunder.
The unknowing ones
misconstrue
That power some
wield, calling it
Magic - mostly bad.
The spiritual ones know the Difference.
The charlatans don't.
No power is greater
than
The one who gave it.
~ Mary Handy Moore
Wednesday, June 11, 2025
RYAN COOGLER'S "SINNERS"
I went to the movies today (Tuesday, 6-10-2025) to see
Sinners for the sixth time. It's never happened before in my life. I've heard
the soundtrack seven or eight times. It now ties with the Cowboy Carter
soundtrack. Sinners is a wonderful and sad movie. I think everyone can identify
with at least something in this movie, if they're honest.
Today, I found some posts trending on TikTok where mostly young people (maybe
not though) are taking the meaning of this movie in the wrong direction. I
really believe that. Here's why:
In frantic attempts to find a sin in every character's closet, they zero in on
Annie - and the wrong sin, if there is one. Since they can't find a feasible
one to attach to her bosom, they conjure up one: Annie is a witch who
sacrifices (kills) her baby girl with Smoke in order to protect Smoke and
Stack. Then, they conjure up another dark-hearted thing for Annie to do: She
sacrifices (eventually kills) Stack when she reactivates Smoke's neck charm
before they leave her house. (That must be when she does it.) So, Mary, whose
privileged intrusion brought death to the Black folks, can turn Stack - and she
does.
What happens to Stack's protection? Like Annie tells Smoke when he asks her why
Hoodoo didn't or couldn't save their baby, " I don't know." Who
knows? Stack may have tossed his charm if he had a separate one in the glove
compartment of their car, but it is not on his person in the juke joint. I
really think Annie makes one bag to "keep you and your crazy-ass brother
safe." It must be Karma. It's not for Stack to be protected this time
because, logically, without Stack, there can be no Smoke. Stack is "the
best part of me," which makes Smoke a shell without him, being identical
twins.
For the thinking ones, if Annie does use that spiritual art for evil when it
serves her purpose, she knew how to save their baby, which would have required
a sacrifice of some sort because the baby couldn't be saved righteously being
too far gone, and the baby wouldn't have died. That's witchcraft. Also, she
would've told Smoke, "Yes, I can bring him (Stack) back to life"
(that's Necromancy). No to all of that darkness. Annie is a spiritual and
physical healer with the help of the ancestors. She is a worker in the Light.
Sunday, April 20, 2025
Unfettered, Unconfused, Unconsumed
I have no fear of entering any thought-out venture
However, I avoid the angst of two-fold accusations
And take great caution about it to dispel great censure
By misunderstanding and other outside critics’ agitations
If I end up in a state of happiness, hence, thankfulness
My end, ever evolving, will be better than my beginning
May you prosper as your soul prospers, is great ampleness
Whereas ampleness’s colossal opposite will be non-winning
Those who are sane understand the two realms of bountiful
The objective, material well-being by accumulated measure
That motivates striving for our portion from meager to plentiful
Meant for growth. Then there's the subjective, hidden treasure
I rely on the hidden treasure where is stored my wisdom
That right-decision-maker that eliminates room for schisms
The reservoir of sanctified, unalloyed, and faithful rhythms
Movements of a soul undisturbed by the fickleness of isms.
~~Mary Handy Moore
Saturday, April 5, 2025
LET’S SHARE TOGETHER
Share with me your story
Please be willing to hear mine
Share with me your wisdom
I’ll share ways and means I found mine
Reveal your life’s losses and finds
I’ll share my own apportioned line*
Does your attitude rightly align
While I examine my own in kind?
The right attitude helps us unwind
The static, uncomfortable inclines
That we must control for the decline
Of separateness and one-island confines.
~~ Mary Handy Moore
*Measures of Destiny. No more, no less. A line is infinite in space. Points (in time and space) are positions on a line. Let a point in this case be a Star. We are that.
Monday, March 31, 2025
Tell Me, Tell Me, Tell Me
Tell me you love me
And I’ll say it right back.
Tell me you trust me
And I’ll thank you for that.
Tell me that you see me.
I promise to see you right back.
You tell me you find worth in me.
Your insight makes me feel like that.
Your wisdom about life and times includes me.
Tell me, how can I not revel in that?
Your understanding wisdom makes me see
What you see. I’ll make that my top hat.
~~ Mary Handy Moore
Cover My Head
~~~”He will cover you with his feathers, and
under his wings you will trust; His truth will
be your shield and buckler.” Psalm 91:4
This was a dream–until it wasn’t-after
preparation for years later.
Whenever I peek out from under my cover,
When I find an avalanche of snow all over,
I get in a hurry and go back – back to my bed,
And pull the many covers over me and my head.
I will hide from the storm - come, daylight.
I could get covered by the snow at midnight.
I'll stay under my cover where everything is warm.
This is not my fight; this is not my snowstorm.
I’m going to stay undercover where all is warm.
I’m not going to let the snowstorm do me harm.
~Mary Handy Williams