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Petitioning the divine

Meticulously petitioning the Divine for renascence,
From the trepidation of my solipsistic ways.
A renascence into the sempiternal.
For a moment, I was indolent.
But mercy is not optional,
Love  unconditional.
Seeking the Magnanimous One,
The Luminous One renders me numinous.
Promised blessings falling like raindrops,
Sheltered by anointing,
Like Daniel, before whom beasts capitulate,
Like Shadrach, untouched by flame,
Like Job  faith unshaken by self-fame,
Oh, my soul bless the Omnipotent name.

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*numinous: google
 "surpassing comprehension or understanding;
 mysterious, that element in artistic expression
 that remains numinous, arousing one's elevated 
 feelings of duty, honor, loyalty, etc.."   ')

PINK SCALLOP SHELL

PINK SCALLOP SHELL 

Along my road to Freedom stood
showy blue-green sentinels with
white cloud whiffs representing Sky
starling decorated bushes joined 
Party of the Road to nowhere 
this was where Freedom 
danced naked, her shadowed body 
awaiting with roasted chestnuts 
she met us with a hug and drums

on I moved to dissolve into River
braincells becoming numinous atomic matter
smiling towards Void, ever deeper into
Dark for Light, a von Gogh sunflower watched
in longing as breasted hills embraced 
my drowning, matrix fell away
stillness and sound merging as did
boundaries, embankment with Freedom herself 
from River into Sea
I became a pink scallop shell on 
undulating ocean floor

Weaving Stars

She knew little of astrology
yet she could translate the stars
applying strange images
as if she saw what no one else did.

Together we would climb
to the crest of a rocky ridge,
there she would relate
visions of crypto-beasts and
numinous beings.

She weaved together a living poem
with her pinpoint insights,
each one was a gateway
to yet another starry night.

I could not love her though,
she belonged
to that Great Nothing,
and I needed something
lesser
to anchor my soul upon.

The esoteric kind

Kismet’s hand stretches the fabric of creation; 
Ichor of the gods entwines with auric fields,
Numinous ideas become our inspiration;
Deeply planting the ascension seeds.

supernatural relatives

a numinous mist
spied by the young ones
unseen by parents
forming in the dining room
above great-great-grandma Rutherford’s claw foot oak table
supernatural magic, kept in secret compartments by the young

Cloud and Light

Hidden by "the cloud, 
now obscure, now luminous"
it overshadows, transfigures, 
--Light numinous--

"From the beginning 
until 'the fullness of time'"
the Word and Spirit's mission 
are hidden, sublime



(based on CCC 697 & 702)

If Peace Is Largeness

IF peace is largeness within the many chambers

of you i should dream a world of loveness

    a n d  m a n y  t e a r s  b y  j o y

to tell you the dream when smallness was

the many vapored obscured heart-tied hands

hanging upon the highest star

There is within me enough room for you

as words from distant cousins lock meaning within

a single stanza the numinous feelings are that much

nearer I -- the pupil of Life and my sight

is becoming more clearer.

:: 11.27.2015 ::

Dreaming

DREAMING

              Dream to fulfill ambition in full fervor
              Running in rapture like restless river.
              Endless dream drinking desire.
              Aglow dream shines, glazes till coming true.
              Meet your dream accessing success.
              Intense yearning rippling ceaseless.
              Numinous emotion never to regress.
              Gracious glorious gorgeous glow.

2023

October 6, 2022

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Fall in the Finger Lakes,
a meeting in Canandaigua,
a nature reserve visit on West Hill
north of Naples, the season at early 
peak, all the colors including green,
the thick, deep forests of the Allegheny
Plateau chasing the underfunded farms
North to Lake Ontario
Back up on Interstate Ninety,
heading home to Syracuse, farm and forest
blowing by, tractor-trailers slightly menacing
at over seventy miles per hour, global commerce
heading home to Portland, Maine and Boston,
to the Port of New York City, the territory 
in-between drenched in the colors of confident
change, fanning the flames of our faith
in the future, calling attention to the
numinous rhythms of this beautiful place
where we live!

The Sorcerer

After imbibing the humbling blend
Constituting the mystical knowledge
And the techniques of martial art 
Dr Strange awakened his third eye
Became a powerful sorcerer.

He derived his supernatural power
From the energy of the universe
Acquiring high level of mastery
Over magic to shape and manipulate
Tangible concept of energy as mystic artifacts.

He could also cast numinous spells
By the entrancing miraculous mechanism
Of the specific formula of destruction
With the obtained fiery energy  
He was capable to incapacitate his enemy.

Against Dracula, the emperor of the undead
Dr Strange, the supreme sorcerer
Applied the Montesi formula
Destroying the vampires by spell that broke
Reviving them for the clash to continue.

________________

August 31, 2022
Contest : Doctor Strange Spells
Sponsored by : Robert James Liguori

Apocalypse

Stricken souls gasp amid rapt tension
And surreal panic as the world spirals
Under throes of exacerbating fire;
Trapped between numinous brawls. 

A virulent pandemic subsides
As near-nukes its pedestal take;
Stubborn fear every limb guides
Amid unceasing numbing awe.

Shall life outlast such brutal fury:
As invisible realms arsenals dumb
Blandish upon this bleeding plane;
Upon this rage-pillaged stratum?

Not when viral variants surge 
And spikes inoculations defy;
Not when troops against troops vow 
And warheads against warheads vie.

Joyful Kiss of Gnosis

Abounding benevolence 
Christ descended 
Elevating For gnosis 
Humanity’s inheritance 
Joyful kiss 
Liberating magnificence 
Numinous 
Opening prison quaking 
Resurrecting Sophia  
Through Universal Voice 
With xenia 
Yeshua’s zofia

Luminescence

Poetry gleamed in her starlit eyes.
She knew little of astrology
yet she could translate the stars
applying strange images
as if she saw what no one else did.

Together we would climb
to the crest of a rocky hill,
there she would relate
visions of crypto-beasts and 
numinous beings

as if a great poem 
was threading its way
through the eyes of a billion needles,
each one a gateway 
to yet another starry insight.

Before she left this world
she pointed out
a distant shinning.

“Look”! She cried.
“See how that butterfly sips
the salt tears of that crocodile”?
I could not see it then,
but I do now.

Silver Lining

This numinous path you take
They can neither break nor fake,
Let the strength you wield
Be your humble shield
As we all sink into the abyss
Love is our air of bliss
It’s the light we choose
The light we never lose

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