Dear Moonscriber,
Before I give you the usual 'reminder' business, I want to give you something else. When I was relaying the Joanna Macy workshop/talks to you last month, I didn't have the text to one of the poems. A particularly beautiful poem. But yesterday it came through into my Inbox.
Here is the poem (followed by links back to the context):
A Love Letter to the Milky Way by Drew Dellinger
I want to tell you about love.
There are approximately one trillion galaxies
I want to tell you about
In the milky way there are about a hundred billion stars
I want to tell you
Love is the breath of the cosmos
I want to write a love letter to the milky way
Everything is an expression of the galaxy
My thirty trillion cells, the four noble truths, the eightfold path,
The five precepts, the seven energy centres of the body,
Everything is the milky way including my lover, and every kiss of every lover who's ever lived.
The deep sky, the ubiquity of spirit, the DNA of dreams, the interlocking patterns of the cosmic constellations,
cosmos and justice are synonymous with beauty
But parts of the milky way don't give off light
Sometimes it feels I've got ground zero in my heart
the dark sun bleeds shadows
The dark sun leaves shadows on everything
The forecast calls for scattered to broken skies.
If there wasn't so much love there wouldn't be so much pain
It's like love is the nervous system of the universe, bringing us joy and sorrow
I inherit the voice of the milky way in my dreams, the entire galaxy revolves around a single drop of wine
Your skin, the texture of the cosmos
The religion beyond religion
I want to know you like the wind knows the canyons
Or the rain knows the rivulets
Lightning is continuously striking in a hundred places every moment
The universe spills through our dreams
The future belongs to the most compelling story
Even the word love is not adequate to define the force that wove the fabric of space time
If we could sense everything at once,
like Krishna entering history with all the memory of his past incarnations,
Then I could tell you about love.
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The above poem was found in COiN's transcript of the same event I described a while ago. But she also used it in her talk in Bath. (I am now inserting the poem into those entries.)
Now for the usual multi-part reminder:
Today is the First Quarter Moon...
As per five MoonLetters ago, I'll no longer be doing MoonLetters like this...
Unless you tell me otherwise, you will start receiving a new type of MoonLetter on the September New Moon...
If you've signed up to receive postal or download MoonLetters only, you'll stop receiving these general reminders when your new service begins. Then you'll receive specific reminders! :)
To get your ecopsychology fix, don't forget about the International Community for Ecopsychology Blog!
Hope you're enjoying the summer! (We're having much needed showers here in the southwest of England...)
peace&love
heather
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