I was meditating today on the spirit some call Emnepe
who reigns over the fifteen mansion of the moon.
Vibrating the spirit's aura within my mental body, I wrote this poem. See also
lava.net/~pagios/new.html for similar stuff.
Copyright © 2009 by William R. Mistele
In the third year of
the reign of King Henry the VIII
A high Wiccan
priestess named Elena
Stood in a grove of
trees amid a coven
Not far from the town
of Amesbury in England
The full moon in
Virgo was high in the sky
A cat’s paw left a
trace on the surface of a lake
The ears of deer were
motionless as the silent woods
The high priestess
raised her eyes to the sky
And a vision came
through
The goddess of the
moon
Cloaked in silver and
violet
Starlight shining
from her hair
Stepped down, her
feet touching the ground
Then the priestess
whispered these words
With soft, moist lips
to the goddess:
When shall the moon
unite with the earth
Filling the world
with bliss and mirth?
When shall we be free
of greed and need
To wander among and
manifest
Dreams of peace and
serenity
Our children walking
openly
Hand in hand with the
mysteries?
The goddess replies,
I would anoint you
with my beauty,
To speak with my
voice and shine with my light
For though I have
searched the entire world this night
You are the only
one who has found me
Answer these
questions while I am here
And I will give
you the keys to the lunar Mysteries
To see what has
been and what things shall be:
When shall the
broken heart mend?
When shall justice
over power ascend--
The calloused
hands of men lay down their swords
To
touch life with tenderness?
When shall true
love by bondage no longer be bound?
When shall the
religions of earth seek kindness first?
And the priestess
replies,
Goddess, you speak
the words of my own heart
Though I can not sit
upon your throne
Or take your cloak of
light as my own
In your presence I
sense what you feel--
The play of night and
day
Upon each other await
The stars and the sun
At dawn their
journeys begun
I hear their song of
ecstasy
The moon sings in the
dead of night
As a melody of
serenity
The distant past and
the far reaches of the future
Are
a flower blossoming
With the scent of the
entire universe unfolding:
These are your
answers:
The broken heart
shall mend
When lovers forever
remain friends
The flame of passion
within one
Refined into inspiration
by the other
Justice over power
shall ascend--
The calloused hands
of men
Laying down their
swords
To touch life with
tenderness--
When the blazing sun
is one with the dark moon
Men shall sing into
being,
Human will
fulfilling, the love hidden
In the deepest dreams
of the seven seas
And the roots of
trees shall speak from out of silence
The song the earth
sings to other planets
Then shall men pass
through their inner darkness
Without fear or shame
to find the divine their desires contain
Justice between the
nations being one of them
I have seen it, I
have spoken it
By your light I know
it
True love shall no
longer by bondage be bound
When the joy of
spring,
When the sweetest
bird in all the earth does sing
Of when the stars
first began their rounds
When these are found
in every farewell,
In every parting and
ending, in every good-bye,
Because the eyes are
no longer to the heart blind
Then shall true love
overcome every limitation and separation
The religions of the
earth shall seek kindness first
When the waters shall
arise
From the sea floor,
from the stream bed, from every shore
From the mountain’s
secret core to flow through the souls of men
Then shall all know
one stream of life unfolds
In and through every
living being
That we are born in
and through and transformed by one another
And the goddess
replies,
The keys to the
lunar mysteries you already perceive
The sun, the moon,
the stars, the seas, the mountains, the trees
Your mind a
mirror, a pool of water clear,
All these things
in their outer forms and inner energies
As the sky where
everything is free to appear
Nurturing,
sheltering, preserving, inspiring
Until like day
from night
The dream fills
with light
Overflowing out of
a ravenous hunger for serenity
A wild delight in
purity
And the peace
beneath all the seasons of life--
To hold the earth
within your heart
Silent and still
as the circling moon
Then you shall be
the cup
From which others
drink
To taste bliss and
mirth
All pleasures of
the goddess
And the laughter
of children
Walking beside you
hand in hand