Dear nation,
Land of honor
Nation of men and women
Of grace and forgiveness
Nation that was built
From blood and sweat;
Hard work!
Nation that our ancestors
Prayed for
Nation of sons and daughters
Lost for the flag
Nation of fathers and mothers
Honored by the flag
Nation that we honor
Nation that we pray for
Nation that we hope for
Stay afloat
Don’t sink
Before our eyes!
Susan McMillan
The poet, playwright and combat veteran of The Great War who was left for dead, Robert Graves, is known for a great body of work. My favourite, though, is a book called The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth.
In it, he posits that there are two kinds of knowing: solar (think of Apollo as the sun god of myth) which is material, scientific, mathematics, “practical,” grounded, the out in the open – and associated with patriarchal religion. The other knowledge system is what he calls lunar (think Isis, the Moon Goddess): the numinous, the imagination, the indefinite, the feminine, the hidden, the secret, the Muse, inspiration, spiritual, intuition, and matriarchal religion). In the beginning of the book, he shares some incidents of synchronicity he experienced and which influenced him to write the book.
While physics, astronomy, psychology would be classified as solar knowledge, astrology, tarot, the enneagram…
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