Poems
THEME/S
I crave not poised perfection in my words,
Jewelled complacence cut to a self-muse.
Song dense with such cool beauty is the goal
Of the mere finite, haloing its own heart,
Crystalling a godhead of the small and brief.
Beyond this beauty, above all perfect poise
Arches the Ineffable who is endless light,
A noon that has no dawn or sunsetting,
Yet every moment a fresh noon whose veil
Is the vast zenith which was white before:
Paradise on paradise ever new, He moves
In a myriad miracle of the measureless!
How shall the rapture of a gemmed repose,
Safe in locked luster, brilliantly blind,
Throbbing to no hush-haunted distances—
How shall so charmed a circle of content
Convey the heavenly homelessness of God?
Him would I win through words that strain afar,
Each sound a listening trance, self-unaware,
Flooding with a life that overflows all form,
Thrilling awhile to ethers older than time,
Spaces of shadowless superconscious sleep
Where star on star is effortlessly dreamed
Ere every dream is read through crooked eyes
By some clairvoyant buried in a cave
Of coiling darkness with a dragon's mouth!
This cave disgorged the world of our outgaze
To quiver between a dungeon and a dome.
Until the prime virginities shine down,
Breathing a rumour of the bourneless Womb,
Vain are our days—all songs that sing themselves
And never That which breaks through every song
Lure us with false perfections brightly caught
From magic realms hanging twixt earth and heaven
Spellbound: these neither pain nor ecstasy
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Purples with a yonder of undiscovered fire.
Here a strange smile, like sorrow never known
Yet bliss found never, dents a rocky face
Watching a million mirrors strangely smile back.
No rhythm of this thin rigid line I seek.
The soul in me is an abyss and a sky,
A chaos and a plumbless mystery.
O I would make my chaos the huge gap
Of a dumb door waiting to wake at last
Vibrant with a wind whose perfume has no end,
Golden with the glow whose name is Eternity.
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