Dawn Light
Dawn light, moonlight
In finest reverie
See how dappled golden
Are those sentiments
Between you and me
In a vacuum of fright
She puts the world to right.
So who is this beauteous Queen?
With emerald and stone she is seen
Why? She is glorious morning
When songbirds caress the day
And in her array
Is an arrow sheaf of desire.
Long has she tasted the rays of Aries,
Such is the sentiment of fire,
Dawn light in dappled furore
Sheds a distant tear to the moon
Which hides behind
A rainbow shaft of dew.
See how the mirage dances,
First the one step of ancient grey,
Then to the beginnings of day,
Bringing in a chorus of dancing girls,
All lights with lustre of pearl –
Now! Glimpse what is below
The rainbow majesty of the Queen
Why? Can that be a cat
Who longs to be seen?
Such a perfect purr needs one to say
She is the loveliest of gifts
On a summer’s day
So now! Expect the unexpected
And greet it too
With a sibilant and loving heart;
It is the music
To dawn light and the arc.
Red Sunrise -- Ken Bushe
Dawn light, moonlight
In finest reverie
See how dappled golden
Are those sentiments
Between you and me
In a vacuum of fright
She puts the world to right.
So who is this beauteous Queen?
With emerald and stone she is seen
Why? She is glorious morning
When songbirds caress the day
And in her array
Is an arrow sheaf of desire.
Long has she tasted the rays of Aries,
Such is the sentiment of fire,
Dawn light in dappled furore
Sheds a distant tear to the moon
Which hides behind
A rainbow shaft of dew.
See how the mirage dances,
First the one step of ancient grey,
Then to the beginnings of day,
Bringing in a chorus of dancing girls,
All lights with lustre of pearl –
Now! Glimpse what is below
The rainbow majesty of the Queen
Why? Can that be a cat
Who longs to be seen?
Such a perfect purr needs one to say
She is the loveliest of gifts
On a summer’s day
So now! Expect the unexpected
And greet it too
With a sibilant and loving heart;
It is the music
To dawn light and the arc.
Red Sunrise -- Ken Bushe
Hamal, Sheraton, Mesarthim, and 41 Arietis form the constellation Aries (Latin for ram), one of the 48 constellations identified by Klaudios Ptolemaios in the 2nd century and one of the 88 recognized today. In Egypt it was associated with Amon-Ra, depicted as a man with a ram's head. To the Babylonians of the 12th or 11tth century BCE it was known as "The Agrarian Warker" but by 1350-100 BCE as the Ram due to its association with Dumuzid (Tammuz) the god of shepherds and consort of Inanna (Ishtar), the Lady of Heaven, who in a fit of pique consigned him to the Underworld, where day and night are reversed. In a collection of lamentations for him ("In the Desert by the Early Grass") he instructed his mother to dig up and blood and chop it in pieces. She gave them to his sister Amashilama to mix with beer for him to drink to be restored to life. But Dumuzid changed his mind about being ressurected, and Amashilama joined him in the Underworld, telling him that "the day that dawns for you will also dawn for me; the day you see, I shall also see."
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