polarityinplay~~~

Saturday, October 5, 2013

Hidden and Revealed

Hidden and Revealed

Sacred texts

many words compose

with meanings

hidden and revealed..

Partial truths

we must see

and effort apply

for the fuller..

Imagine each word

one dimension

always reaching

high and low..

Our imagination

thus leaps and
at last reveals

a fuller truth...

Then we pause..
our own discourse
the hidden layers
remaining unsaid..

Might the sacred
lessons provide
a new process
melding of minds...?

Friday, October 4, 2013

Independence Day

Independence Day

Each summer

we celebrate

that which many

celebrate all year..

Yet there remains

that longing

a painful wish

for a friendship

more intimate..

A wish so often
in our days

unsatisfied..

Friendship finds

a joining of souls

One then not two

out of which

each does flow..

Independence as

flow we might
all days celebrate...

Inspired by

Richard Ford's

Independence Day

Blessed Longing by Goethe (Tr. by John O'Donohue)

Blessed Longing by Goethe (Translated by John O'Donohue)

Tell no one else, only the wise
For the crowd will sneer at one
I wish to praise what is fully alive,
What longs to flame toward death.

When the calm enfolds the love-nights
That created you, where you have created
A feeling from the Unknown steals over you
While the tranquil candle burns.

You remain no longer caught
In the peneumbral gloom
You are stirred and new, you desire
To soar to higher creativity.

No distance makes you ambivalent.
You come on wings, enchanted
In such hunger for light, you
Become the butterfly burnt to nothing.

So long as you have not lived this:
To die is to become new,
You remain a gloomy guest
On the dark earth.