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Tuesday, February 21, 2017

Moonbeams

            


        
“Soothing as the Night Winds are”
Salvador B. Espinas

Love is gentle, love is quiet
Like any distant star;
Love is beauty, love is music
Soothing as the night winds are.

Love is patient and unselfish
Divine, true, neutral, fair
Love is ageless and immortal,
Lost love is just somewhere.

And the heart that love abandons,
Nurses a tender scar,
Softly stabbing, and yet sweetly
Soothing as the night winds are. 

(Courtesy of my first year high school English textbook, “Communication, Arts, and Skills through Filipino Literature” by authors Josephine B. Serrano and Milagros G. Lapid; third edition, reprinted 1996 by Phoenix Publishing House)

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A detail from Gustav Klimt's Fulfillment at the Tree of Life 

These are some of the sensuous scriptural texts from the Old Testament’s Song of Solomon

“The king lies on his bed, enchanted by the fragrance of my perfume.
My beloved is a packet of myrrh lying between my bosom.”   ~The Girl~
“My beloved is a bouquet of flowers in the gardens of Engedi.
How beautiful you are, my love, how beautiful!
Your eyes are soft as doves.
What a lovely, pleasant thing you are, lying here upon the grass,
shaded by the cedar trees and firs.”  ~King Solomon~
(1:12-17)

“Who is this coming from the desert, leaning on her beloved?” ~Young Women of Jerusalem~
“ Under the apple tree where your mother gave birth to you in her travail,
there I awakened your love.” ~King Solomon~
“Seal me in your heart with permanent bethrothal, for love is as strong as death and jealousy is as cruel as hell.
Love flashes fire, the very flame of Yahweh.
Many waters can not quench the flame of love, neither can the floods drown it.
If a man tried to buy it with everything he owned, he couldn’t do it. ~The Girl~
(8:5,6,7)

            Hey, it was only lately that I learned that the Bible itself contains what scholars interpreted as ancient love poetry with subtle eroticism but it celebrated the beauty of marital union. The Song of Solomon, on the other hand, was believed by Jews and Christians since antiquity as a love poem that symbolizes the mystical union of God with Israel and later on, Christ with His Church.
            And the whole Song rich with all the simile and metaphors and other figures of speech, is actually delightful.
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            Why did I post these beautiful poetry in the first place? Literary appreciation, that was! And it was not about solidarity in celebrating the love month. I had never been in love anyway. And if ever reincarnation is absolutely true, during the course of the transmigration of my soul, probably I had lived single-blessed, blissful lifetimes before. Probably I was a hermit or a monk, bachelor for life then. I feel that past lives have to do with the present.



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