a wonderful trip of imagery, a little like otherworldly insight
KS
On 21/01/07, Janet Jackson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Nine levels
>
> "Your body's height, six feet or so, but your soul rises
> through nine levels of sky." Rumi, trans. Coleman Barks.
>
> 1. Crouched on the floor, cold. We look up
> and see the brand-new stars.
>
> 2. The air bubbles with starlight.
> Spring up! Shout! Laugh!
> 3. Chantcrowd surroundcloud raincloud. Spring up!
> Weep for one day. Forget.
>
> 4. Feet still chained by cables, cords and cash,
> I wash my broken eyes in rays and rains. Wait.
>
> 5. I never knew we were so many all-singing angels.
>
> 6. Observing the unedited stars
> we sigh to their starfire.
> 7. Bouncing through the window,
> we throw away our masks.
> 8. In the surge of sudden gravity,
> in the crush of sun and planet,
> in the arc of eyes of angels,
> take this echo.
> Touch [th]is echo.
> 9. Melted, spread and remade
> as plain space and as the rainbow.
>
> Wait.
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> Janet Jackson <[log in to unmask]>
> Poems at Proximity:
> http://www.proximity.webhop.net
>
> The choice is between nonviolence and nonexistence.
> Martin Luther King Jr.
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