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The Temple Room 
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The Temple Room Press
Independent publishing rooted in embodiment, myth, and the sacred feminine.

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The Temple Room Press is the publishing arm of my creative body of work,

a home for my mytho poetic Voice of The Dragon collections and women’s wisdom texts that honour the path of healing, remembering, and reclaiming. Whether embodied workbooks or poetic transmissions, each offering is crafted to nourish your relationship with body, voice, and soul. 

The Body Calls Us Home
 

Make a decision to begin loving your body

fully, and without apology.

Make a decision to embrace

the many faces that you carry within.

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Make a decision to bring all

of the lost and forgotten parts of you,

back into the faceted glimmering,

jewel that you are.

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Begin to remember that your body is sacred.

Begin to remember that you are made

as a temple of clay from this earth,

 held together with breath, and dust

from planets and stars.

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Begin to remember

that the Earth also lives as some body,

and that as we are nourished by thee,

 this life needs to be nourished by us all.  

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Do not forget that your body

  holds a living library of story and song about you.

Read aloud and dance these histories,

so you might come to know your ancestors,

and your descendants.

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Those living, waiting, and unborn,

who learn from your body how to live.

Gathering, watching, and seeing, 

what their lives may one day become.

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Most of all never forget,

that your body has never forgotten you,

but sleeps like a lover awaiting your return.

Wake up the body gently,

call the body beloved,

just as the body calls you home.  

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The Body Calls Us Home is a 28-day poetry-inspired workbook inviting women to slow down, reconnect with their bodies, and rediscover calm.

Published through Temple Room Press, it weaves daily reflection prompts with gentle practices for sacred feminine embodiment and inner peace.​​ Available from the link below.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1068254408/ref=sr_1_1?crid=BYWVAOADTB3J&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.sRcK98r9RvB_fqQbJJdxqA.eDvL7fU7KhVez022WlhyOcehRn8fX20hx9h0pMGERi4&dib_tag=se&keywords=the+body+calls+us+home+lorna+bailey&qid=1760978995&sprefix=the+body+calls+us+home+lorna+bailey%2Caps%2C89&sr=8-1

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Swan Song

excerpt from Swan Song - The Chronicles of Yopi 
by Voice of the Dragon poetry
 - upcoming collection

From stars we came, luminous and bright

with shafts of green feathers, which broke open the Light

My sisters were many, though not as before

We had lost many to the battles and the Unending War

We took flight one day, paired and ready to leave

the races who we had loved, but who had deceived

Us and our children of giants and men

sold us a trade to a time seen as when

the lost legion lovers from the Dragon’s own eye

caused our home world to shatter and they poured

through our skies

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excerpt from The Gathering - Vision Dreams of the Crow Mother by Voice of the Dragon poetry upcoming collection

…and when the time of the Gathering comes

you will know,

you will feel,

and you will go,
to the east, to the west,

to the north and to the south,

to kneel at the Gates

of the opened Mouth,

that opens up her Way

her World, her Earth,

as She swallows up the living

and offers up the births

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The Gathering

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