~ CONTAINMENT

My death
Cannot change the fact
That I had a life

My life is a member
Of a larger context
And forms part of it

The larger context
Is the Universe
Because my thoughts
And emotions
Are not extended
In space and time
Unless they travel
To my outer world

Therefore they have the same nature
As the Universe as a whole
And so my thoughts and emotions
Are added to the Universe as a whole
In the logical field of the Universe.

~ SUNSET TAKE

Clouds
In the sky
Shapeshifting topiary
For the russet dusk
Of human craving

~ OUTAGE

Every time a thought is born
I am born
When the thought is gone
I am gone -
No permanent entity in me
But my thought.

What I look for
Does not exists:
The beatific vision
Of my radical transformation
Is the bewitching state
Of my conjured phrases.

My natural state
Is to escape
The enchanted ground
Of illusory senses
And silently express
My own true humanity.

~ FISSURING BEAM

Light comes through a crack,
And
Dear God
Since I am cracked
Give me the Light!

~ CATHARSIS

... a swan song

Empty the vessels of your wisdom

And enter the gates of my soul


Soothe the wrinkled hands

Demanding unreachable ambrosia


I am One with my Own

And rest contented

On the Divine Shoulder

Crying the Love for All


and


I illuminate my spirit


With Immensity

~ DRAGONFLY RIDDLE

DRAGONFLY RIDDLE


Inside the Pentagram

Of my dissolute thoughts

Hovers the word

Of universal Amor


Outside the circle

Of my selfish wants

Thrives the root

Of Tetragrammaton

~ PINNACLE SHOCK

The sound of rapture
Invades the synapses
Of the receptive being
Whilst divine insight lashes
Against the wounds
Of a better knowledge
And sweetness captivates
The tremor of response.

Yes, moisten your tongue
Now!
And lick the savour
Of ominous beauty
As silence touches
Consciousness
And nerves transmit
The awesome sensation.

~ LIGHT REFUSED

Lamb staring
Fixed
In the snare
As
The cobra
Strikes

~ CUTTING JEWELS

CUTTING JEWELS

If
It
Is
True
That
In
Every
Stone
Sleeps
A
Crystal
Then
In
My
Grey
Boulder
Slumbers
A
Sun

~ LAST ORDERS

I stand alone
On the core
Of the earth
Transfixed
By the lightning
Of metaphysical planes

And it’s suddenly night.

~ GOD'S THUNDER IN MY SOUL

I annul
All that is Me
In order to become
The All that is
In God

Everything I Am
Is Nothing -
Nothing I want to be
Is in Everything

God, listen!
I Am That I Am
Because
You Are

And I cannot comprehend...

~ EPHPHATHA!

Splitting the Logos
Into a million
Concepts
Engenders pain
Through the semantics
Of Life:

Speak one Word
And create
The Universe.

---

Mark 7:34 (King James Version):
And looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him, Ephphatha, that is, 'Be opened'.

It is that sigh which astounds me...

~ SANCTITY

Holiness

Is permeating

The meanders

Of my being:

Uncontainable

Love.

~ SEARCHING

Mine is a recess that preserves cold heat
A star of radiance that has no reflection
Drifters seek it in bouts of anxiety
Peaks of sensation hung with delight
Who goes there cannot survive

~ WOMB

Spat out
Like an angry foetus
From the black uterus
Of an indifferent Universe,

I can feel the Answer
Birthing
As I return inside.

~ MY ECSTASY

In a single utterance

I lost all of my strength

But in a composite thought

I repossessed my soul

~ GUARDIAN

Angel
I glide
With you
On quivering veils
Of interrupted stars,
Their filaments
cascading anguish.

~ COLLAPSING UNIVERSE

I will write the poem of poems
I will sing the song of songs
I will dance the dance of dances
I will play the sound of sounds
But sounds are never half so fair
As when whole music turns to pure air
And the universe dies of excellence.

Poem, song, dance and sound
Fall from their heavenly towers.
Joys walk no longer down the blue world's shore.
All fear another wind, another thunder:
Then one more voice
Snuffs all I feel in one gust.

And I go forth with no more wine and no more stars
And no more poems and no more sounds
And no perfumes and no senses:
While God sings by himself in acres of night
And walls fall down,
And I am free.

~ INTERROGATIVE

Dying with nothing
To lead the way
But the terrene notion
Of eternal life:
The Question awaits
More or less
Suspended.

~ LE RÊVE DIVIN

The Divine Dream

Casting off
The weight of space
The mighty god
Wraps his hunger
For the whole earth
In a shawl of flutters.

Sings the sun
In Hebrew
And away I fly
In my divine slumber.

~ MY INCUBUS

A vision I had

I could not breathe
the air of my nightmare,
face this naked radiance
unscathed.
Here music turned to light,
a tone so sweet
that my Self, dulled by
its familiar harp,
mistook its sound for silence.

Mounting to tiers of
trembling flame,
I found light. Light everywhere.
Circles, wheels,
light on light,
a dance of invisibles.
The flames pulsating, as if
measuring the breath of heaven.
At the last, I fell forward,
caught in widening rings
of implacable bright.

~ CREATURES

Creatures perish
in the darkened
blind of quest,
knowing intimations.

Guessing and dreaming
I pursue the real,
my face turned toward the sky
whispering secrets to the heavens.

And while I remain
with seeking creatures
in every turn of time
abiding in their condition
every instant past
I perceive their aching breath.

~ I.N.R.I. *

I wish
To reflect
On the open vein
In my wrists,
They are not my doing
But yours,
The nails still there
To prove it
And the lance
In my heart.

Cry the women
at my feet.
If I am God
Why the pain?

* Initials for the Latin title Pontius Pilate had written over the head of Jesus Christ on the cross (John 19:19): "Iesvs Nazarenvs Rex Ivdaeorvm" - The English translation is "Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews."