Luna Triformis

☽◯☾  Luna Triformis ☽◯☾

As the Maiden holds the cup,
Containing the life to be,
She smiles at the secrets within her.
The Mother grows round with life;
Her smile beams beams fully
As she gives birth -
Full-flowing the secrets
Bearing sacred wisdom
To a thirsting earth.
The Crone of the little night
Oncoming gathers life again
Ending the cycle of all;
And she too smiles
With wisdom and love
For all the children she has been.
And brought, and shall be
Again.


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Blessed we've met
With Joy in heart,
And triply blessed be
As we depart
From the circle
We form for her above,
Peace to all, and joy - and love.

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Written for a drum circle - Full Moon, 28th April 2010

Day of Silence

4/16/2010
(For Monica, on the Day of Silence)

Today, the Day of Silence,
Virginia Woolf's only record
Of her voice will speak for me.

I'm observing silence
On Facebook, with others,
Yet one of them in the social net
Shared this item.

Virginia was also silenced,
In her way, by her circumstance
Of time and place and class and sex,
Entangled in a social net
That dragged her down

She took pen in hand,
Perhaps thought of Vita,
Before filling her pockets
With rocks, and strolled forth
From a room of her own
To the river.

Her voice, I knew, spoke on
In print on page, black and white
Photographs and images.

But I did not know
That she would sound
Exactly as I'd imagined:,
Reserve, clarity, precise diction
Weaving elegant phrases,
Stating things
"Past examining."

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c.  2010  Todd Eliot


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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8czs8v6PuI&feature=related

NOTE:  This recording had me saying (as I often do) "There's a poem in there somewhere."  There was.  This time, it poured out like water, instead of being carved or cobbled together.

- T -