Sunday, 23 August 2015

A Book is like a Sacred Isle . . . A Rain of Booklight . . .





Where next? What then follows on?
Through the inner mist I wander onward
Through a maze of speckled cloud
Not knowing if I’m right or wrong
Or where I’m going –
Trusting blind to the inner gifted vision:
Alive to the lonely dream alone

What next? Where then shall I go?
That any hear what I am given to say
A rain of booklight is in me –
A pouring of oil but against the grain
In my centre, my way I find: not-knowing
A torrent through any subject flows:
Alive in light and life, I fit through all


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Faltering Steps

Faltering the steps I take in festive forays
Through the Lantern Brights in books . . .  
To find in light the strength to pass through dark
To loose the oil I find there, beyond the spine

Amidst the unseen streets I walk through gold
Find there my sight that turns my heart to see
My goings helped, and known and sheltered
And entered there: simplicity, and new happiness!




In a World Books 

From a lighted centre a beam goes forth:
A line in amethyst shooting depths of sight –    
Through a world of books it travels
Finding stories in a river of life –
Thought open, the light beyond fills it
And a flow of angel’s tears are in me, pearled –  
Falling softly in streams of insight burning bright



The Lonely Poet

The breeze that lifts my autumn leaf
That bends this silent flower stem
Tears from my midst the finished page
That cannot see what it shall be
But joined with life’s own rifling wind
Will write within the heart it rends

                        

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