In our world today, there is a yearning to connect to beauty; a rising tide of sensitivity and awareness of the immense difficulties we are facing; a need to find a sense of redemption. Poetry offers this. It opens the window to paradox, giving voice to both the soul's grief and its longing for the ecstatic.

Julie Taras poetry falls in the tradition of the mystical poets who, through the magic of words, open the eye and the soul to the awareness of the infinite; of timelessness; of presence.

To enter into Songs of Gaia is to enter into a world where the desert wind becomes a wild woman's breath; where the rivers you've drunk deeply from become the blood of the Mother's veins, and where the sound of your beating heart becomes the rhythm of the very universe in which you live.