Beneath the Canopy of Moon and Stars

January 26, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is nationality and race in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Birthday, which this year is celebrated on January 21.

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A poem about a love between two hostile races:

Beneath the canopy of moon and stars

Two tiny people sit, for now together.

Love binds them, they would like to hope, forever;

But there is much that such a union bars.

Heaven is so vast; the Earth so small,

Yet large enough to stretch a great love thin.

For love to flourish, it must turn within:

To the single soul that unifies us all.

Within this soul the walls of fear dissolve:

Distance, difference, history are no more.

The holy silence stills the sounds of war.

We love as round us miracles revolve.

We know we cannot stay within this shell

Of heaven. We must live back down below.

Day by every day the world we know

Will guarantee we recognize it well.

Yet there are truths far greater than the sun,

Beyond the blanket blue of every day.

In love's dark longings, we will find a way

To make our separate, hostile races one.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Nationality and Race

1/21: Moses Never Reached the Promised Land

1/22: Love’s a Stream That Knows No Borders

1/23: Love Has Obstacles Enough, They Say

1/24: I’m Married to This Muslim Arab

1/25: Mugabe and Mandela

1/26: Beneath the Canopy of Moon and Stars