Originally posted on sciy.org by Rich Carlson on Sun 19 Oct 2008 04:39 PM PDT
Sonnet Morph'
by
Richard Carlson
Into overmental realms we crept,
to spy the Gods as they conspire
upon a blue hued dazzle we swept
in, on a thousand petal lotus fire,
silent, lest a creaking board reveal
to those lowly mortals aghast in reverie
hearing the secrets this world conceals
at the mercy of their venery
they prey upon our thoughts demanding to be fed
man's unknown sacrifice to the vital godhead
........
Since time evolved a mental being
immortal laws, telepathic schemes
color the field of man's slow seeing
so that he may only grasp the dream
through our hollow images thought breathes
with cryptic messages encoded
etched in mind's channel their desire seethes
echoes the vernacular of the dead
through faith enter where titans fear to tread
light the healing torch in the ancestral mausoleum
the snare of idols through saved appearances redeem
........
Exponential manifestation
of the heart witness silent substance
salt and blood compose his immanence
and empirical emanation
trapped in the slow jaded amber of the scarab
a symmetrical branching of the infinite
crystallizes the Deva's sacred amulet
enshrines the metamorphosis of the cherub
chronology coverts the days transcendent function
knows the history non-linear
through which man enters time's seduction
.......
If time denies an immortal being
our biological destiny is cast
to derive spirit from matters seeming
awaken reason from her cellular dance
until this incarnation of finesse
man whirls in the cycles of the machine
too bewildered by the samsaric dream
to seal a covenant with mortal flesh
Come, observe the elemental cauldron
pure flame fractal symmetries of chaos
too subtle for the forge of Hephaestus
to serve the tyranny of iron
an epistemology for the next millennium
........
A morphology of Angels prehend
the branching of structures upon earth
thus silently does Purusha attend
the ten thousand things spiraling to birth;
the transparent veil through which form enters
into the three worlds and five elements
separates idea into particulars,
flaming sun into rayed constituents
so the spirits presences are obscured
in cloud manifestations of first thoughts,
imaginal worlds are condensed and poured
in mind's chalice from earthen vessel wrought
from the rib of necessity and time
to house the temple bell, the space, the chime.
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