T Wignesan Poet Didactic

Golden Secrets In the Flower

"...The Secret of the Golden Flower is not only a Taoist text of Chinese yoga but also an alchemical tract. (...) it was the text of The Golden Flower that first put me in the direction of the right track." C. G. Jung

"The Golden Flower alone, which grows out of inner detachment from all entanglement with things, is eternal." Richard Wilhelm

does it bloom in the subatomic quark neuron
a flower petals deranged
burning with green rage
dark firmament pullulating infinitesimal quasars
unpeeling layers of nuclear fusions fissions
the blue-blackish greenish-blue haze

is this the eye looking at the eye
which I
between the crushed ajña-eyebrows
under eyes straining to envelope reality from afar
spotty bright grains pulsating in a velvety ink-blue-black throbbing screen
thoughts racing forwards and backwards in time

childhood slights deprivations unrevenged hurts
throbbing thriving on treacherous jabs by of-all beings friends
those who profit from taken-for-granted confidences
the women who dun-you-in
thoughts of a nature to make you hate fate

then the pulsating roving churning dismembering coalescing screen
dissolves
and in the pale fringey opening white furry stripes on the blue-black greenish bulgey bed of velvet
whose I
lights the frigid fire burning dynamo
whose eye
shrivels
reopens brightens
what is it an eye
which stares
shrinks sharper by the fractioned second
closes and opens again
and again
till the pinpoint galactic blackholing centre
bigbangs

the myriad diamondlights buoyed on a myriad-petalled dryburning flowering sun
shedding golden glory
expelling all thought or is it mere doubt
the intense unrelenting feeling of
is it joy
or a fumbling stolen fear
the mental orgasmic relief
the sense of deep other knowing power come face to face
refreshing retreading the worn-out neuron paths

then the return
after the wearinesses
or is it nonplussednesses

to this world
to words
to wars
to waste
to wickedness
a world without wonder
without womb
a world dying
dead
a tomb
see only what you should see
words see only what eyes make belief
even when words don’t mean what they see


© T. Wignesan - Paris, July 3, 1997[Revised May 2003] -from longhand notes: a binding of poems. 1997

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Frankii Fame July 6, 2016 at 4:02 PM Awesome write!! T Wignesan July 7, 2016 at 5:25 AM Hello, Frankii! Nice of you to ferret this poem out of the depths of the soup. It's "vintage" stuff by now: the petals must have withered by now. Still, nice to know you enjoyed reading it. Thank you ever so much for taking the time out in these sport-hectic summer months. Can't wait for the Olympics to break. TW

Poet Destroyer A August 31, 2013 at 9:35 PM T W. , Congratulations :-) on having your poem Featured on the soups Home Page... always~ Linda T Wignesan September 1, 2013 at 5:50 AM Bonjour, Linda! Long time no hear! Thanks a lot (am embarrassed), don't know how or where the poem surfaced from the depths of the soup bowl. Home Page (I mis-typed: Hope Page): couldn't find it, though I was able to previously. That's vintage stuff. How are you? Hope you're being creatively productive? Bonne continuation! Every good wish. Wignesan

Dr.Ram Mehta August 28, 2013 at 7:18 PM Congrats on your poem being featured T Wignesan August 29, 2013 at 12:38 AM Hello Dr. Mehta! Many thanks for the comment or rather the felicitations, but I didn't know the poem was featured. Wonder where? Please read the response to Catie's comment. That's the way it is: far too burdened to be able to repay the kindness. Hope you're keeping fine and enjoying yourself reading poems. Every good wish. Wignesan