Light within light, And darkness reaching down beyond the blue Resonant silence of the singing sky Deeper than leaves ascend, or swallows fly. Here are no leaves opening, no flowers falling Or birds flying from the nest, tossed, lost in wind. Here beyond the commotion of the garden I remember no beginning, fear no ending. Blue of the nether sky is deep identity And light grows dark within the monstrance of the sun. Eye cannot penetrate the darkness of the glory As the beating heart of eternity Throbs out the resounding OM of being In waves that overflow all sense, past sight, past sound. Its living pulse becomes a sky of angels. The sky of angels is alive, and I have lived it Before memory began, or I was a child. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE LITTLE FIRE IN THE WOODS by HAYDEN CARRUTH JEWISH HYMN IN BABYLON by HENRY HART MILMAN BARBARA FRIETCHIE [SEPTEMBER 13, 1862] by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER THE EPIPHANY by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD TWELVE SONNETS: 12. AFTER BATTLE by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) |