As I transition from my "February love notes" and into this new month (my birthday month, 3/3!), I hear-feel those love notes singing the song of my BEing.
"Beloved on the Earth" flows from those songs and in this moment I recognize an almost imperceptible yet deeply important place for me calling for my attention, like the
s p a c e b e t w e e n
an exhale
and
an inhale
This almost imperceptible yet deeply important place is this very moment in my life....a place of in-between, of what comes after an ending and before a beginning.
I've felt this space before as absolute nothingness and yet that nothing is so incredibly beautiful that I sit motionless in wonderment, careful that even my breath might shift that no-thing into some-thing.
I inhale and something new has already begun.
The name Beloved on the Earth (B/E) is the name of my site, yet I am also naming a state of being that I am learning my way into.
The following poem is a small glimpse of my being-becoming-being.
To me this is a birth poem.
SIGHT
Once
a single cell
found that it was full of light
and for the first time there was seeing
when
I was a bird
I could see where the stars had turned
and I set out on my journey
high
in the head of a mountain goat
I could see across a valley
under the shining trees something moving
deep
in the green sea
I saw two sides of the water
and swam between them
I
look at you
in the first light of the morning
for as long as I can
~ W.S. Merwin ~
photo: screenshot from "Beloved On The Earth, a short film", 2012. Click photo for film and further credits.
Thank you for your presence here.