Sarah Flame is a bhakti writer who began her journey in India, following in the footsteps of her grandmother, a mystic who had prophetic dreams. Influenced by Krishna’s story, Sarah set out on a path to become a healer and a mystic. The spiritual teachings of yogic traditions and the natural world serve as her guides, and her studies with shamans all over the world has led her to pursue becoming a mystic poet and a messenger of the heart. Her poetry is a spiritual practice and an act of devotional service intended for her own divine awakening as well as the world’s.
“Sarah Flame’s 'The Lady of the Roses' opens in prologue with the speaker declaring her new name and wrapping herself in a “star cloak.” As this collection of spare poems progresses, we learn that the speaker, once a Vermont beauty queen, was “born to fight / the giant river.” To this fight, she calls forth wise ones: Rumi, Hippocrates, Krishna, Shiva, the natural world of creek and flame, and all the attendant guardians of that world: lion, bear, eagle, leopard. She is looking to be “cracked open” and earn her seat among the ancestral mystics, and these poems are her chisel.—Sherre Vernon, author of 'The Name Is Perilous and Green Ink Wings' Sherre Vernon Publications
“'The Lady of the Roses' is buried roots, crocheted time, a devotional path, a wooden holiness, a cryptic victory, a flute player with a universal song. Graceful and reverent, Sarah takes us on a journey. These poems are the stars born wild, their light guiding readers out and over ancestral stories to gods and goddesses and ultimately toward love.”—Crystal Stone, author of Knock-Off Monarch and All the Places I Wish I Died
“Flame’s hand interweaves nature, the mystic, and humanity so that the fabric of solemnity, reconciliation, and liberty emerges. The poetry speaks both simple and rich details that allow the eloquence of movement, ancestral roots, and breaking free to relight the paths of our own experiences."—Cristi Hebert, author of Food, Cars, and Grandparents