May 18, 2022
Here's an update to this post. Today got this delightful message about this song / dance via a Facebook post. Thanks so much Sukanyah, for sharing this with me.
Kathleen, Dear One, Sunday night at a Dances of Universal Peace Camp in Paonia, CO, led by Bernie Heideman, Sky Roshay, Jen Friedman & Douglas Stevenson, with a blissfully blessed talented group of musicians, we prayed, sang, danced your hauntingly beautiful, meaningful, masterful No Part Left Out, under the blood red Full Moon Lunar Eclipse! We Are Saying Thank You, 10,000 times for this gift of Love, Harmony and Beauty Towards the One.
May All be well for All in All Ways.
Ya Shakur!
Ya Fattah!
Sukanyah, St. Augustine, friend of Tom S.
Here's an update to this post. Today got this delightful message about this song / dance via a Facebook post. Thanks so much Sukanyah, for sharing this with me.
Kathleen, Dear One, Sunday night at a Dances of Universal Peace Camp in Paonia, CO, led by Bernie Heideman, Sky Roshay, Jen Friedman & Douglas Stevenson, with a blissfully blessed talented group of musicians, we prayed, sang, danced your hauntingly beautiful, meaningful, masterful No Part Left Out, under the blood red Full Moon Lunar Eclipse! We Are Saying Thank You, 10,000 times for this gift of Love, Harmony and Beauty Towards the One.
May All be well for All in All Ways.
Ya Shakur!
Ya Fattah!
Sukanyah, St. Augustine, friend of Tom S.
This song is based on a poem by Izumi Shikibu, a 10th century Buddhist Japanese woman. I found the poem in a wonderful book called Women In Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women, edited by Jane Hirshfield. The book was a revelation to me when I first saw it in the mid 90's. It is full of poetry by women mystics whose existence, up until that point, I had absolutely no knowledge of. The moon in this poem represents Consciousness, Oneness, the genderless unity underlying everything. I am full of gratitude to Jane for publishing this book, thereby helping to free me from stereotypes I had about who could or could not realize their true spiritual nature.
There is also a circle dance that can be done while singing this song.
I've attached a file of the sheet music and dance instructions down below the lyrics. I've danced it all alone in my front yard at midnight, on a beach in the moonlight with friends, and with 150 people at MotorCo in Durham. Please feel free to teach it, sing it and dance it anywhere, with anyone, anytime.
No Part Left Out
melody © K Hannan
words based on Jane Hirshfield's translation of Izumi Shikibu's poem
a recording of this song with harmonies, flute, guitar, bass and crickets
is on my CD Seen & Unseen; Songs from the Light of Midlife
Watching the moon at midnight
Alone in the middle of the sky
I saw myself completely
I saw myself completely
I knew myself completely
Whole, no part left out
There is also a circle dance that can be done while singing this song.
I've attached a file of the sheet music and dance instructions down below the lyrics. I've danced it all alone in my front yard at midnight, on a beach in the moonlight with friends, and with 150 people at MotorCo in Durham. Please feel free to teach it, sing it and dance it anywhere, with anyone, anytime.
No Part Left Out
melody © K Hannan
words based on Jane Hirshfield's translation of Izumi Shikibu's poem
a recording of this song with harmonies, flute, guitar, bass and crickets
is on my CD Seen & Unseen; Songs from the Light of Midlife
Watching the moon at midnight
Alone in the middle of the sky
I saw myself completely
I saw myself completely
I knew myself completely
Whole, no part left out
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