Poems
THEME/S
O wide-winged crucifixion in the sky,
Floating in a light of sempiternal ease,
Singing in a fire of incorruptible joy—
Bird with full stretch of golden reverie
Spanning thy own vast soul and breaking forth
To sapphire liberties of the Unknown!
O same bright body that on blinded earth
Liest pinned by steely spikes of mortal law,
With human hands thrown out in time's fatigue,
Palms bearing the dark boon of torn life-blood,
Nails frozen to a sky's blue cut and crushed!
O supine sorrowful creature, lift thy gaze
There where the invisible cross creating all
And speeding all to the Space-Self's four extremes—
Rapt Being, locked Knowledge, poised Ecstasy,
Gigantic Rhythm of oneness millionfold—
Is an omnipresent moving mystery,
With those white pinions of thy Archetype
Held ever unfurled beneath the viewless power
In deep suspense yet wide discovery!
Mirror in thy inmost heart the apocalypse
That hangs above thee as thy timeless truth.
Then, like a miracled lightning which at once
Shoots down and up, thou'It catch to a single fate
Of freedom there and freedom here, in a bliss of the All,
Thy pulse of beauty cloven now in two
By a cross of heaven and a cross of hell!
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