Hi Ian

Thanks for this - though it was a good moon!

In and out of the Oak Tavern last night, the eclipse was spectacular (as 
seen in Lowestoft). Indeed, the bar was secondary to Earth's shadow slowly 
falling over Moon.

Media said it was copper, or copper-red; locals described it as the Orange 
Moon. Whatever, for myself it was Beauty.

The best of Earth's nocturnal shadow:  the changing of the Moon's flat disc 
into an orb - and, in that process, the Moon actually looked suspended in 
the sky over us and not just part of heaven's flat patchwork.

Imagine back those hundreds-of-thousands of years ago when the first 
hunter-gatherers saw the Orange Moon (as we did last night) - the flatness 
turned into a rounded pebble! A pebble in 'heaven!'

I don't think space travel has advanced humanity at all over old telescopes 
and new Earthly hi-tech observations. Clinically/scientifically we know the 
Moon is dust. Yet the Moon still turns our tides and patterns menstruation 
cycles and still finds poets active on a Full Moon - or mad for a day.

Despite the dust, the Moon must be forever for poets!

Rupert


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "ian davidson" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2007 10:01 AM
Subject: last night's eclipse


> for last night's eclipse - the lyrics to bad moon rising.
>
> amazing the excuses you make to yourself to behave badly.
>
> ian
>
> I see the bad moon arising.
> I see trouble on the way.
> I see earthquakes and lightnin.
> I see bad times today.
>
> Chorus:
> Dont go around tonight,
> Well, its bound to take your life,
> Theres a bad moon on the rise.
>
> I hear hurricanes ablowing.
> I know the end is coming soon.
> I fear rivers over flowing.
> I hear the voice of rage and ruin.
>
> Chorus
> All right!
>
> Hope you got your things together.
> Hope you are quite prepared to die.
> Looks like were in for nasty weather.
> One eye is taken for an eye.
>
> Chorus
> Chorus
>
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