Earth Was My Maiden Transcript 6, Alternate Beginning And End (For Ilan Ramon) Poem by Eli Spivakovsky

Dedicated to the astronaut Ilan Ramon
Green as green was first invented
Blue as blue
was first suggested,
colour of our first love's eyes.
and star-lapped
and snow-capped
and split clouds of bluff
and sirius
Ocean enigmatic
clouds of waterfall and rise
Spirals of coral and seaslugs.

Families who fit in with families
with other families
and some not either
that hurt and heal
forgetting Adam and the ever-family of the flashing sword.

Light coasts over a city in Mexico
The people are hosting a pinata
The women are sitting near the sea
the Butterfly migraton will happen any day now.

In the Rainforests another species disappears and in the Hinterland a new species reappears.

A child is born against all odds.

Green orchard of Israel
No snake today
just delight.

Cities of gold dust
lights of annononymity and
You wire me
and desire me
So many lovers asleep
asleep while the Sun
hits the East
Rising and kissing:
Where is God's signature?
Where is His thumbprint?
Jerusalem a collection of souls, many, many different children...
I rotate around your heart at 3 G's an hour
The station has our picture inside it, it's like an arcing ark, a timecapsule
There are the white doves we saw before I came up here
I can picture them in India now.
I can picture them in Ireland.
A calyx of flower is left over from our ‘goodbye kiss'.
Somewhere down there in another time, I jumped when i heard I was going up... I didn't see I hit my head...
It killed most of me... but they couldn't damage us. What we have, you now have in your veins. I'm over-whelmed no longer, just your simple kiss please. I just wish it had always only been. Me and You.
my way there