Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings. For today’s blog post, I am sharing a poem about communing with the White Lady of the Birch Tree!
Dancing in the Birch Grove
by Maranda Wabik
Tall white trees with textured bark
A blanket of snow on the ground
The wind whistling through the branches
A solo dancer glides into the grove
Completely transfixed in her own joy
Moving to a rhythm and beat, she creates
Gleeful laughter emanates from her lips
As she sways her hips to the song, only she hears
Her dance becomes a trance
Ready to transport her to a new realm
From the Birch Grove to the Otherworld
The dancer has found her way into Faery
A snap of a twig garners her attention
Her dance stops suddenly
As she realizes that she is not alone
There, between the tall Birch Trees is a woman
A woman all in White
She is the Lady in White
She is the Lady of the Forest
She is the Faery Queen, Goddess of the Birch Tree
The Birch Queen smiles at the dancer
A sense of joy and hope fills the grove
The Birch Queen tells the dancer that her joy is infectious
This is the blessing given by the Birch Queen
This acceptance and love for the joy in living
Is truly a gift from the Divine Feminine
To her dancing daughter in the Otherworldly grove
This is the knowledge that we must remember pleasure
Pleasure is a beauty beyond measure
Pleasure is what primes us to receive
For hard work is half the battle
To gain true Alchemical Transformation
We must also recieve
That is the lesson of the Birch Queen
That the old has died and the new will begin
And she shows pride in her dancing daughter
As this new phase opens
A new chapter ready to be written
The dancer smiles as she begins her dance again!
~I hope you have enjoyed this poem. Let me know your thoughts in the comments below!
Note on Image: The image at the top of the post is a photo titled Birch grove in the autumn by John Price. I found the photo on https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Birch_grove_in_the_autumn_(Unsplash).jpg.
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3 responses to “Dancing in the Birch Grove: A Poem”
Maranda, thank you for sharing this truly enchanting piece. “Dancing in the Birch Grove” is a beautiful and vivid journey. You’ve masterfully woven together imagery of the physical world—the textured bark, the blanket of snow, the whistling wind—with a profound spiritual and emotional transformation.
What strikes me most is the poem’s celebration of uninhibited, personal joy as a sacred act. The dancer, lost in her own rhythm, becomes a conduit for something greater. The arrival of the Birch Queen isn’t a interruption, but a validation. The Queen doesn’t bestow joy from afar; she recognizes and blesses the joy the dancer has already generated, framing it as “infectious” and a divine gift.
The lesson you’ve embedded feels deeply resonant and necessary: that pleasure and receptivity are not indulgences, but essential, alchemical components of transformation. The line “For hard work is half the battle” is such a powerful, grounding truth. It reframes the pursuit of joy as the other half of the sacred work, the necessary counterpart to effort.
The cyclical structure—beginning with a dance, moving through a transcendent encounter, and ending with the dancer beginning again—feels perfect. It suggests this isn’t a one-time epiphany, but a practice, a way of being that continually opens new chapters.
This poem is a gift. It’s a reminder to find our grove, to move to our own unheard song, and to trust that in doing so, we might just attract the blessing of the Divine Feminine in her many glorious forms. Thank you for this magical, uplifting work.🌷🤝
Thank you so much for your kind words! It means so much to know that my poetry can inspire others. So, I am very glad that my poem resonated with you. As always, thank you for reading and commenting!
You are most welcome Maranda 🌷🤝