Sunday Night Meditation Poem by Margaret Alice

8 February 2009

I can only play Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata
when in a certain emotional state, as if tuned
to a radio station like FM Classic, an uncom-
fortable place, a tunnel-vision state of affairs,
when happily tuned to another channel, I can’t
play - can’t find the notes at all

Read in my book*, in 1976 astronomers discovered
the Milky Way galaxy was moving at 600 km per
second in a different direction than predicted by
Hubble expansion, suspicion of the Great Attractor
surfacing, discovery of superclusters ahead, a re-
minder of the Seven Samurai

A delightful chronicle of these discoveries and
theories, illustrations of mysterious movement
in Time Life Books created excited anticipation
how esoteric literature would interpret such
scientific investigations; Egyptian mythology
speaks of the Sun sailing its ship

Through the seas of the universe’s immense
Spaces - how thrilling to know the Ancients
pondered these questions also!

*Georges Smoot & Keay Davidson
“Wrinkles Iin Time – The Imprint of Creation”
Abacus, UK,1995 – pp.137 - 145