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A Brief History of Love,
Dedicated to Teilhard 02/1/2023 |
We are blessed today with a poem contributed by the poet/activist Rafael Jesús González, first poet laureate of the City of Berkeley, CA and founder of the Mexican and Latin American Studies Department at
Laney College in Oakland. He dedicates this work to Teilhard de Chardin: | “Emergence” Sand painting by David Paladin, 1973. Reprinted with permission. |
The first-born of Mother Chaos, it is said, was Eros of the piercing, life-giving darts. & then through eons & eons of Cosmic turmoil was born Earth who in union with the Sun through eons & eons of gestation gave birth to Life. Through more eons & eons of calamity, catastrophe & trial, Life grew sentient —colors & sounds, smells, tastes, the feel of
things. And later after eons & eons (though far less) it grew conscious of wonder & of myth, of history & science, strange mixtures of love & fear, curiosity, invention, & awry desires, until Tonantzin, the Great Mother is wounded by us, her wayward children. Awaking to what is now we must defend the Earth from ourselves with a fierce love. |
El primogénito de Madre Caos, se dice,
fue Eros de las saetas penetrantes, dadoras de vida.
Y luego a través de eones y eones de agitación Cósmica
nació la Tierra que en unión con el Sol
a través de eones y eones de preñez
dio luz a la Vida. A través más eones y eones
de calamidad, catástrofe y
prueba,
la Vida se hizo sensible —colores y sonidos,
olores, sabores, tacto de las cosas,
Y más tarde después de eones y eones
(aunque muchos menos) se hizo consciente
de asombro y de mito, de historia y ciencia,
extrañas mixturas de amor y de
miedo,
curiosidad, invención y torcidos deseos
hasta que ahora Tonantzin, la Gran Madre
es herida por nosotros, sus hijos desviados.
Despertando a lo que es
ahora tendremos que
defender a la Tierra de nosotros mismos
con un amor feroz. © Rafael Jesús González 2014 |
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Midpoint Image: Indigenous
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