Dancing Moon

I looked at my day timer.

I scheduled a date with the moon tomorrow night.

Julie, Mina and I will dance with her in the moving light. The moon is very important in the history of Taoism as a teacher in fulfilling the nature of emptiness.

Here is the second pass: for a poem, from the moon.

Long long ago:
Moon and Earth were one
Until shattering of celestial hammering
Left two dancing where once was one.
Setting a tempo for life to come.
But that was long long ago

Long Ago:
She wined with sages of old
leaving them drunk upon her light.
Men wanting to have more,
yet treasuring
only the emptiness of her embrace.
But that was long ago.

Today:
It's a busy life.
Rockets to build.
Humanity busily pounding outwards while...
Societies ebb with human tides.
No time for poetry
as life becomes tied, to fulfilling orders.
But that was this morning,
already lost in the afternoon press.


Tomorrow:
I will dance with her
Knowing we will be eclipsed
Our motions moving us on
to get lost in earthly shadows,
leaving me to walk alone: yet fulfilled.
But tomorrow will be nothing,
for those chained to consuming the earth now.

Peace