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noreenz
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posted August 02, 2004 01:50 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I recently spoke to Carlo (my astrologer) and he wanted me to thank all of you who wished him well on his book, he gave me permission to share this poem with ya. Enjoy!

Noreen

…and so, you see, astrology is only one of several vocabularies, like music and art, that help us understand each other. But it’s a singularly poetic language, with unique expression for some of the rhythms in our lives. I want to learn more about it – not to become and astrologer – but to become a better poet. I like its sweep, its broad symbolisms, the fact that its such an ancient old thing that hasn’t changed for millennia. Poetry! Poetry! Poetry!

~ Bill Webb, Sun in Leo, in a letter to Linda Goodman, November 20, 1968

and I was drifting…

into a kind of soft and soothing lifting…of my soul
through my quiet solitude on Hollywood Boulevard

people-watching every night
the human sandpipers
skipping across an asphalt beach

trying to reach…a star


like me


~ Linda Goodman, Gooberz

Venus Sextiles At 12:03 a.m. PDT

You know, I remember the first time
I held a copy of your Love Signs
‘Twas in the arms of an old girl Cappy
Who was making me less than
Virgo Man/Capricorn Woman happy.

Your words went right through me &
Over the well with a looking glass
I saw at once both future and past
True Virgo, studying, analyzing
How to make the next one last.

Since those crazy late eighties days
I became a devoted fan, pusher,
And disciple of your divine ways;
That is to say, you’re right to think
My bible is both big and faded pink.

So when you came up to meet me
That sunny Summer day, a hotty
Dressed all metaphysically
In Room 1217/21, it didn’t seem
Too odd nor so strange;
I mean, you didn’t arrange
In that very room on your
New Year’s 1970 stay
31 years and 8 months
Earlier, to the day
For a little box of candy
To appear serendipitously
Like sweet synchronicity.

Or did you?!

You know, it wasn’t even me
Who spotted you there, my dear.
A new Leo and old Libra friend
Together in our room just then
Told me of your presence
Divinely, elfishly
Unselfishly sent.

They said I walked right through you
Which is a funny metaphor, its true.
You had come to meet and touch me
And keep me well tuned, I see
Like Sappho tuning her favorite lyre
Your blessed, brilliant Ramgirl fire
Trined my Kitties, sextiled my Moon
So I do continue, a
Cancer Rising loon,
To rhyme, croon &
Carry your fabulous tune
Like a torch into my world.

& while neither unfurled,
Circumstances nor Love
& did, as he thought,
Quite ever conspire
To draw you away
From Cripple Creek
Back on here to seek,
Well…
I got your back
I took that tack
“Cowboy, baby”-ed it,
Yo, and so, my dear,
Mounted the throne
Beside my very own
J. L[e]o right here.

When in 1995, you went away
Finally outgrowing this plane
And although we know
You’ll reappear again
Somewhere, someday,
At least one knowflake
Agreed to live and play &
Stay to tarry and carry on in LA
I hope that’s okay with you, for
He never did indicate just who.

So you came and met me here
Dispelled any remaining fear
Got my Leo and Libra girls clear
And now, nesting in the Hills,
Chill like Flynn,
Hatha, tennis, and vitamin pills
Help to keep this Virgo nose deep in
Scripts, real breasts, and weekend gin.

The memories of that remarkable time
Seeded both with rhythm and rhyme
A thunderbolt path you had called it
Save nothing could have forestalled it.

Thank you again, Mary Alice
And from one poet-astrologer to another:
Methinks I doth stillest doeth thy proud
Trés Kitties up in me estan cantando out loud!

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posted August 02, 2004 02:58 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for trillian     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Cool!

Thanks noreenz.

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