What Should We Do About That Moon?
A wine bottle fell from a wagon and broke open in a field.
That night one hundred beetles and all their cousins gathered.
And did some serious binge drinking.
They even found some seed husks nearby and began to play them like drums and whirl.
This made God very happy.
Then the “night candle” rose into the sky and one drunk creature, laying down his instrument, said to his friend – for no apparent reason,
“What should we do about that moon?
That night one hundred beetles and all their cousins gathered.
And did some serious binge drinking.
They even found some seed husks nearby and began to play them like drums and whirl.
This made God very happy.
Then the “night candle” rose into the sky and one drunk creature, laying down his instrument, said to his friend – for no apparent reason,
“What should we do about that moon?
credited to ~Hafiz~ sufi poet
Holi is this month, the last full moon of winter. I went searching for some Holi poetry about the triumph of good over evil.
Then learned that this year, since March's full Moon (March 7, 2023) occurs before the spring equinox (March 20, 2023), it is a Lenten Moon. Came across this collection of poems for Lent and Holy Week, Ecce Homo. So many poems of suffering followed by jubilation. Triumph.
Then, this wonderful poem that is attributed to Hafiz. Really, what can one drunk beetle do about the moon? What should one drunk beetle do?
Eternal hopes and questions.
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