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Mon Feb 15, 2010 at 16:21 PM PST
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Valentine's Day has me thinking/feeling/musing about "Love" again. Not just the personal kind of love that is part of the Hallmark holiday, but the deeper, intimate communion with All of Existence . . . the kind of Love that Hafiz refers to in his poem:
The subject tonight is Love
And for tomorrow night as well.
As a matter of fact,
I know of no better topic
for us to discuss
Until we all Die!
(translation/version by Danial Ladinski
Pumpkin House Press, 1996) |
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When I belonged to a Unitarian Church, the minister often addressed her prayers "Oh Love that will not let us go". It makes me think, too, of a book I read many years ago, "The Universe is a Green Dragon", which talked about the love/attraction that is holding the whole universe together and keeping all the planets spinning in their orbits. The more I settle into my awakening, or my 2nd birth, the more I am awed by that Mysterious force of Love -- that Love which Dante said "moves the sun and all the stars".
What would Valentine's Day be without roses? The rose is sacred to the Goddess of Love, Aphrodite, and to Mary, the Mother of God, with her wide-open, immaculate Heart of Mercy, loving everyone and everything unconditionally.
Here are two of my favorite poems. The first by Gabriela Mistral, translated by Langston Hughes, and published in "Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women" (Harper Collins, 1994):
The treasure at the heart of the rose
is your own heart's treasure.
Scatter it as the rose does:
your pain becomes hers to measure.
Scatter it in a song,
or in one great love's desire.
Do not resist the rose
lest you burn in its fire.
And another from Hafiz, published in "Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West" edited by Daniel Ladinsky (Penguin Compass, 2002)
How
did the rose
ever open its heart
and give to this world all of its beauty?
It felt the encouragement of light against its being.
Otherwise we all remain too
frightened. |
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