Dearest Yvonne, I love you ❤️ ! Thank you so much for recording my poem, and for adding my name so people can see that I wrote it. I send you all of my love, always.🩵
❤️ Beloved and appreciated Being, ❤️you have the world’s most exquisite voice, and, fortunately, a profound understanding of my meaning.
I wrote these words when I was in my early 20s, a single mother with a little girl, Joya, whom everyone loved.
Many young people at Quarry Hill loved the poem. ( Quarry Hill, an old central Vermont hill farm, re –created by my Bohemian parents in 1946 as an artists’and writers’ retreat. It later became a community, one of the largest in New England, and the oldest and largest in Vermont. The place now has an art fellowship for emerging painter & writers, bringing its purpose full circle.)
Some started carrying copies of this poem in their wallets and pockets!
It was popular among the young people because most were involved in multiple relationships.
“Real Nature”’s theme “spoke to their condition,”as Quakers say. but it is not just about sexual love.
To be honest. I was not always able to live in the light of the poem, Jealousy and fear were often present for me as I met and had relationships with young men, but having these ideals, made relationships easier for me and for others.
For a while I had a group of friends who were my “water brothers” as in “Stranger in a Strange Land “ by Robert A. Heinlein.
We were able to offer and share love to one another because we loved every member of the group. it was puppy love in non-monogamous relationships. Couldn’t last forever, but it was fun while it did. I’m still very close to many of the people who were in that group with me.
I understand that today multiplicity is “in” in relationships again. it certainly is not always easy but it has rewards, I think. . Eventually, I met and married an astrologer and yoga teacher (who turned out to be much more to him than that), and we have had a wonderful 40+ year marriage.
The poem was edited by my father, Irving Fiske, who , during the 1930s , wrote for the WPA, a government- funded program that paid writers and artists. Irving was a freelance writer who published in several prominent magazines, and a playwright. he “translated” Shakespeare’s hamlet into modern English. I believe it was the first version. In later life, he began to give talks on Eastern philosophy, and psychology, among many other things, at colleges in particularly in a storefront on E. 4th St. in the East Village in the 1960s. It was called the Gallery Gwen. Many people came to QH as a result of hearing one of Irving’s talks, some of which I sat in on and provided quotations from memory.
People also came because I invited them, and my mother and brother did .
I have lengthened this already long review, but I thought the listener might enjoy some of the background story. With the advent of AIDS, the multiple relationships shifted and mostly became a group of couples. I think they multiplicity was a practice run for monogamy, but both kinds of relationships have their value. Those couples, most of them, had children together.
The background music, Canon in D Major, by Johann Pachelbel, is almost too well known now— played at nearly every wedding. But in the early 1970s, when I wrote the poem, the Canon was mostly known only to fans of Baroque music . At Quarry Hill, it was wildly popular. “Canon in D” seemed to us to be the the theme song of our love for one another and ourselves & our children.
❤️ Thank you dearest, most marvelous Yvonne, for making audible this philosophy of the nature of real love.. Now you & I can offer it to everyone.! ⭐️ With my love and admiration always, Ladybelle ❤️. You are a great Insight Timer teacher! Love your photo too❤️
December 19 Happy Birthday, beloved Yvonne❤️! ⭐️⭐️I just fully noticed on Christmas Eve, 2022, the way you speak with wonder, spontaneity, and tenderness until the last note of the music, making the poem come out perfectly! Thank you, O Shining Being of Unconditional Love! 💕 I see that a lot of people have left reviews and I’m grateful. Thank you, everyone!🌝 It is a great blessing to both of us to read your reviews and to bask in your kindness.
Dearest Yvonne❤️, I love you eternally, and I’m so glad that you have found somebody wonderful to love. All of our love flows together.
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Here's to you and your Brian! 🥂 🍾
And again, thank you to all the reviewers. 🌷🐌 dearest Yvonne❤️, May 4, 2023. Thank you for bringing my words and thoughts to life and giving them to everyone here. I love you very much!
To everyone who listened and left a review. I’m grateful and appreciative. if you can, a donation to Yvonne would be gratefully received. I don’t take any donation money for this poem on Insight Timer, so donations go to Yvonne and her family. Thank you so much. Just knowing that people are listening is a great benediction.🧡
