Sitting with Sister Moon

[lenny]

Platinum beams cascade from celestial heights,
illumining the hills, routing the night.
Silver scented love fills my being.
Glimmering joy sings, permeating all.

November cold, alive, tumbles
down windowpanes, plays tag
with warm furnace currents,
rejoices in Sister Moon's fullness,
dances on my cheeks,
gladdens my spirit.

Gracefully silent She arcs the sky,
wondrously still in Her movement,
watching, touching, blessing,
knowing...calling forth
tides of my heart
in swells of oceanic joy.

To Her bosom of immortality,
She draws me near.

Sea of Tranquility,
shimmering above, shimmering within
ignites my spirit with Cosmic ardor,
inundates the shores of my being.

lenny

[tinkerjack]

"...an objection to Future of an Illusion made by his friend, the French writer and critic Romain Rolland. Rolland agrees with Freud about the illusory nature of religion, but he maintains that humans share a common feeling of innate religiosity. Rolland calls this an "oceanic" feeling in which the individual feels bonded with the entire world and the whole human race. It is a sense of oneness, boundlessness, limitlessness”

http://courses.washington.edu/freudlit/ ... Notes.html

I was googling for the Oceanic Feeling link and I found this Novel I think, I liked the image. The book is called Kali's Child. I think foot note 15 refers to Romain Rolland.
You can't judge a book by its cover but I like the cover a lot.



http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~kalischi/pale.html

Oceanic joy
Oceanic sorrow
Take it away

There was a bright crescent moon in an indigo sky tonight. I was driving, which is as close to sitting as I can get these days. As close to it as I have ever gotten.

very pretty poem lenny
tranquil and beautiful
thanks

[lenny]

Thank you very much, Tinkerjack. I'm glad you enjoyed it, and thank you also for the link.

Be well,

lenny

[mnaz]

Thanks lenny. Reminds me of all the desert camping I did-- that fickle silver moon-- never the same face, or place....

[lenny]

You're quite welcome, mnaz. And thank you for taking the time to read and to comment.

Be well,

lenny