Tag: nature

Rhyme Chapter Time

Nature is always reminding us of what we think we know and what we do not know!

In the noising babble born brook

here in the dell of this unkempt wood

under the sky torn kingfisher blue,

I watch water boatman swim great strides

forward and back in a mirror brown pool.

And all the insects I cannot give name

clamber across the circle of stone

seeking warm earth bathed in the sun.

All for my eye moist ear muffled mind

this paradise, this pageantry

this rhyme chapter time.

The warble, deep throat, high pitch sing’un of bird

flashing from tree, fern and bracken bowered bush,

appear from beyond the V of this hollow’s high shelf

where nettles wave their tear dropping heads

and the spring born rivulets breathing wet

rush lemming-like into a mirror faced lake.

I can just hear moor hen’s chirp, more silence than sound,

a chorus no doubt to a wordless symphonic hymn.

But wait!  I cannot yet understand the boatman or me.

Perhaps I should listen, look more intently, or just simply be.

All for my eye moist and ear muffled mind

this paradise, this pageantry, this rhyme chapter time.

Azoth’s Daughter

Azoth is an alchemical concept, the universal agent of transformation. In energy terms it is a causal force brought by Dark Energy into Black Matter. It is not time or form bound and can manifest beatifically.

When your eyes hook to the morning star                           

still and shining, free from tears;                                          

sleep warm lungs slake the cold unfeeling air.                                

Untold thoughts of troubled dreams disperse                      

and the earth untrammelled by your feet awakes.              

And as your senses find their root in earth                          

The pretence of knowledge dies;                                         

you become the bride of nature  -the soul                           

formed dream, all true and understated.                              

Your voices stilled by heavens majesty.                              

And when you have gotten empty                                       

the worldly oyster smashed in search of pearl;                   

your body becomes the honeycomb chamber                    

for every seed bearing tree.                                                 

Your love a legion of unlimited power.                                 

And if your senses can remain alive                                    

To dissolve the last of human care,                                     

love weary worshipping truth is discovered                         

with every fish, fowl and bee;                                                           

in the wheel forming heavens of Hur.                                  

Truly the daughter of Azoth;

at one with the life giving earth,

shape shifting intangible air.

in marriage to the polygamous sea

aflame in the untouchable fire.

Spiritus Animatus!