Salutation to the Sun

Inspired by a yoga class

"Salutation to the Sun"

 

Back in the Ancestral Days

Our world revolved around you,

Not just the motion of the planet but

Also in terms of the Spirit.

We gave you names like Ra,

Built stone circles to monitor

The seasons of your movement,

Made ornate palaces so high that

We might climb the sky

To touch your golden face

Until you were eclipsed by

A Son of a different name.

Yet you should have no fear while

You're up there fusing hydrogren,

For your worship still continues.

Your shrines are made of golden sand

With names like Mediterranean,

The postulants lined up in rows

For you to caress their barren skin

With bronzing rays and kisses.

I who owe allegiance to the Moon

Give you thanks after my fashion,

For you have saved me once again

From the frosty grip of winter.

Here now is my prayer, my song,

My heathen dance beneath the sky.

Now I am posed like the Mountain,

Now I am the Upward-Facing Dog -

Basking in your warming gaze

I give my Salutation to the Sun.

 

Reviews

[Wildfleour]

Terrific, write, Scott.