Tuesday, 28 October 2014

The Tree & the Lake of Colour


‘And the light shined out of darkness
And the darkness comprehended it not’

Truth out of the unknown
The earthly mind would not understand it    
Out of fear the light and joy the terror
And all the territory of the weak
The gentle strong
           
A vast level lake of brimming light is there
All silver-shine grey in translucid movings
As still as still yet hovering
On the surface

A single tree stands amid centre
The translucent enigma translating
Braving the homeward colours
Hidden in its appled isle
Of veiled Avalon

Out of that inner lake the vision the door open
Out of apple seed black the un-blinding light
All harvest moon white the gift unveiled
In story filled hues the quest’s end
All wrapped in these shiny tight seeings
           
Deeply helped, deeply freed, deeply filled to the brim
The colours the telling-things the gold of the seeker
Speaking in the peace light giving in its filling
Life filled hues hidden within this lake of colour

Books of grey, but prism turned and understood
A lake of given words the heart of Avalon
Ever present the seasoned light savours the message
While the underlying spirit waters the inner palate
And the tree above speaks out her own fearsome light

Out of spilt-blood red her fiery flame of Orange
Out of rich gold-yellow her harmless apple green                   
From dead-of-night indigo, horizon’s shimmer blue
And all her velvet purple pansies turning vermilion red 
           
Making of the tipped out space, flowerings of the rainlight
Forming from her emptied midst ecstatic bravings of the terror
           
The dreams will fit
Buried hopes beneath the lake of colour rise
All the brave of the King of Kings are here     
As Love’s arm pierces through her shining opal lake

Offering a new sword of twoedges made and true
A flaming sword of light cutting both ways at once
Truth’s discerner ever within my hidden parts 
Dividing me first to win of Love her endless life





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