Talking To The White Goddess - Part Three
Giant Filament Seen on the Sun, NASA
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Three Anonymous Rondeaux
"Toute seule passerai le vert boscage" - C13
Lonely I'll wander in the green woodland
since company I have none.
If I've lost my lover by my own hand,
lonely I'll wander in the green woodland.
I'll send him a message he'll understand
that I'll mend what I have done.
Lonely I'll wander in the green woodland
since company I have none.
"Ne me mettez en oubli" - C15
Do not put me from your mind
my sole comforter, my good
who of all the world I would
love the best of all I find.
My love gentle, true and kind
if my heart you've understood
do not put me from your mind.
Let us be of one sweet mind
that is what I ask of you.
Since with you I chose to bind,
do not put me from your mind.
"La fiance que j'ai en vous" - C15
The faith that I have in you
my only friend, my chosen one
makes me forget my martyrdom
and all my great suffering too.
One day we'll meet again we two.
What is it that makes me say so ?
The faith that I have in you.
We will, by god, despite those few
who would have wished to say us no.
None but god can hurt us though.
This is the root of all my good,
the faith that I have in you.
New Moon
Tender, so tender, arc of slender light,
new under the dark, collecting starlight.
Pale beauty, loveliest of all.
White stillness that frees me in the gulfs of time
for inner journeys to the kindest source,
the sweet heart of the Earth.
New Moon rising from the dying sun,
new life returning.
Softly you passed the shadows, safely came
open into the new beginning of the spirit,
into the birth of the gentlest aspect,
the conjunction where mind and feelings meet.
I knew you there, hidden, and then
seeing you born suddenly beyond the earth,
curved again like a woman taking
the universe into her arms,
Through the dark space you came,
of time and distance, healed and whole
from the sun's warm giving,
from the places of loss and departure,
risen again to life.
Moon fixed in memory where my deepest feelings
touch, intense the sphere of your circling.
Secret, careless child of our unknown
and unknowing oceans of the spirit.
Well of compassion. Sensitive bowl
of the electric shadows.
Reborn again. Moon of mind's seas,
now setting swiftly following the sun,
to come again in the new life,
in the heart's bright renewal.
In You
In you I drown and all my senses end.
What sense remains where I in you am drowned ?
The drowned self is beyond the body's sense.
The end of all my self in you remains,
The self remains when sense is drowned in you,
You are the sense of self where I am drowned.
What is the body's sense where self remains ?
I drown in you where all my senses end.