Here is the second of my original love song poetry ballads for my new album. I don't have any melody yet, but it's a ballad that can be sung.
I aim to write 20 poems like this. Ten will be under the theme songs of separation, and ten will be songs of union, like this one today.
I call it Matangi my love. That's one of the many names of the goddess, found in the ancient Sanskrit wisdom texts of India.
It alludes to the overall theme of divine love, hinting at an understanding of true love being internal, spiritual or divine. Instead of projecting our love onto a human, if tells the ancient tale of the mystic yogi's meditation on the anima, as Jung called it, of the goddess within, as the Sufi mystics or bhaktas or shaktas might describe it.
Poetry is easy to write. It simply requires a story to tell, in the most succinct wording. I like to use traditional classic rhyming couplets and a fairly rigid meter. This allows the poem to be sung more easily.
Poetry is an old art, not found much any more it seems. Song writers of course might still compose lyrics, though much modern music is purely instrumental and electronic.
Nevertheless, this is my preferred style of art, and the subject matter is most far to my heart. Esoteric love songs that are rich in symbolism, revealing esoteric truths or mysteries of consciousness for those who know the symbolism and references.
Now I just need to cultivate the melody composition, and then it will be a whole brain creation, with both hemispheres being creative.
I could be wrong, but this one love, the anima, is both male and female, is transcendent. And so it could take either gender, with many memes and identities. Therfore I equate it as Mercury, who is also Matangi.
Matangi my love
Do you really wish to know Just how it feels To be lifted up high By the wings on your heels To be flying so high On the wings of a dove To be floating in air To be falling in love
Well I'll tell you the truth Love is not what it seems It's not her that you love It's the girl of your dreams She just happens to be Around at the time To accept your projection At the scene if the crime
For I'll tell you my son As i sing you this song Seperation is one big Illusion gone wrong 'Cos the girl of your dreams Is with you all the time And real love is for her A love truly sublime
She will whisper to you Into your inner ear All the mysteries untold Tales that you'll love to hear Songs that you'll hear of love Rained from heaven above Cooling your fevered brow She's the true sacred cow
There's no woman alive Who can ever take her place For her love can uplift The entire human race Her love's always with you If you just lend an ear She reveals every truth Songs so old yet so clear
So look in and you'll see The Divine mystery Of your true highest love The divine Matangi She is yours, you are her's It is all divine play Just accept her embrace And let her guide your way
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