Marrow of Flame: Poems of the Spiritual Journey

A luminous collection of mystical poetry from one of the great spiritual voices of our time.

What happens when a human life is touched by the fire of the Divine?

In Marrow of Flame: Poems of the Spiritual Journey, Dorothy Walters offers an intimate record of awakening, surrender, longing, and transformation. Born from her own profound kundalini awakening and decades of devotion to the inner path, these poems carry readers beyond ordinary perception into the living presence of mystery.

Writing in the lineage of Rumi, Hafiz, Kabir, Mirabai, and the great mystic poets, Walters gives voice to the timeless journey of the soul—the call of the Beloved, the dark nights of transformation, the dissolution of the separate self, and the discovery of a love that burns at the heart of existence.

Acclaimed spiritual teacher Andrew Harvey calls Marrow of Flame a “spiritual autobiography” and the record of “an extreme love affair with the Divine.” Mirabai Starr writes that Walters “weaves mythic literacy with subversive compassion” and describes these poems as “made of light.”

Both deeply personal and universal, these poems explore:

• The ecstasy and challenges of spiritual awakening
• The sacred feminine and the return of the Goddess
• Kundalini, mystical experience, and embodied transformation
• The soul’s longing for union with the Divine
• The hidden radiance shining through ordinary life.

For seekers, meditators, poets, and lovers of mystical wisdom, Marrow of Flame is more than a book of poetry, it is an invitation into the fire of awakening itself.