2 Comments on “What Should We Do about that Moon?”
Normally with Ladinsky one can get a fairly clear moral message from Hafiz. This one is more ambiguous. Is the music good, or the question? The drunk has been playing music- and then stops and contemplates. Changing, perhaps, from Martha to Mary.
For me the challenge is to not spend as much time as I do, trying to find answers to questions that have none. I need to just enjoy the moon. Of course any particular poem says many different things to us – at different times. Sometimes I’m Martha; sometimes I’m Mary.
Normally with Ladinsky one can get a fairly clear moral message from Hafiz. This one is more ambiguous. Is the music good, or the question? The drunk has been playing music- and then stops and contemplates. Changing, perhaps, from Martha to Mary.
For me the challenge is to not spend as much time as I do, trying to find answers to questions that have none. I need to just enjoy the moon. Of course any particular poem says many different things to us – at different times. Sometimes I’m Martha; sometimes I’m Mary.