Author Description

Now that the book, The Prophet, is in public domain, this derivative work The Prophetess can finally be published for the benefits of women everywhere. Illustrated with twelve full page drawings by the author honors the everyday woman as a prophetess in her own right. Also, to honor Gibran for his superior insights into the spirituality that he accomplished in life, the text has remained true to the original manuscript yet all changes, modifications and alterations have been noted in italics. Ramla, The chosen and the beloved, who was a dawn unto her own day, had waited twelve years in the city of Orphalese for her ship that was to return and bear her back to the isle of her birth. "Brief were my days among you, and briefer still the words I have spoken. But should my voice fade in your ears, and my love vanish in your memory, then will I come again, and, with a richer heart and lips more yeilding to the spirit will I speak. Yea, I shall return with the tide. And though death may hide me, and the greater silence enfold me, yet again will I seek your understanding. And not in vain will I seek. If aught I have said is truth, that truth shall reveal itself in a clearer voice, and in words more kin to your thoughts." May the spirit of Kahlil be honored with this version of his book, and may you benefit from reading it with your sisters, daughters, mothers and friends.