For Starlight Born with Robbie Burns
Although some celebrate today
the Scotsman’s favorite bard,
my day is elsewise occupied
and I shall find it hard
to think of he whose “Auld Lang Syne”
will ring out through the night.
For this day someone else was born
who gives my life delight.
My first, my last, my everything,
my better half, by far,
the truest friend I’ve ever had:
my one and only Star.
So Robbie Burns, I wish ye well
there under heath and sod;
You’ve given me much, I admit,
to think on man and God.
But today is for goddesses,
and I’ve one in the flesh;
were you alive, it’s likely you
would feel the same, I guess.
A toast to verse, and tuneful speech,
to poets at their rest,
and to the muses such as mine
who give all life their zest.
25 JAN 2005
For Sondra (Starlight Dances)
01.26.05
The Starting Point
Like all Capricorns, I suppose, I am continually attempting to fashion some kind of theory of the universe. In conjunction with that astrological impetus, my real world experience in information systems technical support insists that this theory include a practical user’s guide written in language that can be easily understood (or at least understood if one possesses the proper prerequisite understanding). The musician that I am provides the cement that ties the ideas together, while the philosopher crafts the thoughts that the writer puts into words.
You’ll notice that I didn’t say my being “pagan” gives it any sort of spiritual veracity or inspiration. That’s because unlike all those other traits I identified above, it’s not an action. It is a state of being, not a religious inclination or activity. Besides, there are so many labels that could be, are, or have been applied to ideas that these labels make no more sense than an endless stream of acronyms paraded by a Silicon Valley wunderkind in front of a Neanderthal who just got his first wheel built. And I don’t consider this a “pagan” piece of thinking – or rather, I do, but I suppose not many other so-called “pagans” would agree. Maybe that’s because it’s not just the anti-pagans that have a far too limited interpretation of what that Latin derived word REALLY means. This work is not about that.
It is about expanding, not constricting.
It is a philosophy of energy.
This is an on-going work.
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