moondrummer: RSVP to Slow Dance

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I want to make deep, passionate, real, unhurried love

to the Earth

every day of the rest of my life

I want to lie down her soft belly and feel her breathe

She is a wild, untameable, woman who will not be rushed

and if I can slow down and listen long enough

I might hear the myriad secrets that she holds

the thousand daily miracles that she unfolds

in every cell of her magnificent body

I might dare to dance with her

My heart beating time with the timeless heart

of this wild untameable woman who will not be hurried or rushed

I want to slow

down

and really,

truly,

madly,

deeply,

slowly

love the Earth

This reply to Slow Dance is dedicated to my dear friend Cheryl Beer,

who so kindly loved and recorded my photographic poem last year:

Slow Dance first came to me in 1999 on the cliff path in Cornwall, where I lived.

She has been teaching me ever since, tweaking and refining the words and meaning.

Every time I think she is perfect and complete, she surprises me with a new twist.

This equinox it came as an obvious shock, that this was my response.

moondrummer