(Ongoing: please note, since we possibly originated in India, it is believed that the Romani would share that country’s cosmogony. After writing the first part of this poem that appeared in one of my previous books, I found this origin myth in Asian Folklore Studies and have used it as a basis for the second part of the poem)
EARTH & SKY (Small part of a larger poem)
She walks around,
A piece of living history
Hair highly teased up
Vintage dress brushing the ground
Without breaking his stride
He drops off a planet as she stargazes
They accidentally meet and she asks
Where were you? Why’d you hide?
They walk, leaning into each other
Nighttime clouds cover the stage
Neon and LEDs light the city path
Welcoming Sky Father and Earth Mother
Love measured by star time
When suns were alive
Light years away showing
Miniature worlds sublime
Eternally he gets to see
The immensity of space and time
Relationships of earth and sky
Nourishing the Universal Tree
© 2015 Clarissa Simmens (ViataMaja) appeared in
Parallel Universe Café and Other Poems
COSMOGONY–SECOND PART OF THE MYTH
(based on Rudolf Daniel’s Myths of the Czech Gypsies)
What an unparalleled love
Mother Earth and Father Sky
Until the boys were born and grown
And fought to rule the kingdom above
Sun, Moon, Fire, Wind and Rain
Ruination by five king sons
Earth and Sky held them in
Attempting to force their refrain
But the young men fought back
Afraid they would suffocate
As the parents squeezed them together
Into a stiflingly strong narrow track
Darkness ruled the shadowed space
As Sun, Moon, Fire and Rain weakened
Wind, by far the strongest, won
Escaping from his parents’ embrace
Ripping and roaring, he tore them asunder
Earth and Sky separate forever
Her clothing settled as mountain peaks
And the sons founded realms of wonder
So many lessons we might learn
About love never truly lasting
About children needing to stretch and grow
Yet we sad humans for all this may yearn…
🙂 to be continued 🙂
© Clarissa Simmens (ViataMaja)
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