Short Gnostic Poems

Caliginous eyes
Fearsome face of sickly white
Lion-headed snake
Embellished in his shadows  
With flaming orange beneath...

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Wings lofty and bright
Sharp claws perched on the date tree
Feathers light and still
A beak restless and serene 
To sing the song called gnosis...

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Shem
Saw
Spirit 
Deep darkness
And light all fighting
To know how the cosmos was made
To know our hope in our liberation in the end
This gnosis was given by Derdekeas, who is Christ the son of Light, for those lost




Inspired by the Gnostic text The Paraphrase of Shem...

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A Nordic says "God lives in Asgard"

A Jew says "God lives in Heaven"

A Mayan says "God lives in the 13 Heavens"

A Samurai says "God lives in the Katana sword"

A Gnostic says "God lives within us"

If God was to be asked where he lives,
which abode do you think he would say?...

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Up from the gleaming, healing surf:

Sacred Father/ Sacred Mother Pistus Sophia,

Saving Gnostic Wisdom ---

Immediate, ecstatic, eternal ---

Carefully picking Her Way to shore,

Stepping from one stone awash to another:

That She should not harm even one precious, divine toe....

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Premiered at Al's by the Sea,
Mont Clair, PA - 9/24/2021

THE BOOK OF GENESIS
THE BOOK OF EXODUS
THE BOOK OF NUMBERS
THE BOOK OF JUDGES
THE BOOK OF RUTH
THE BOOK OF KINGS
THE BOOK OF EZRA
THE BOOK OF ESTHER
THE BOOK OF JOB
THE BOOK OF PSALMS
THE BOOK OF PROVERBS
THE BOOK OF ADVERBS
THE BOOK OF REVELATIONS...

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John Meyendorff makes a careful case that the Holy Spirit can be interpreted as a Feminine Aspect in the Trinity. He is clear that Only the WORD became flesh as Jesus Christ. But in Meyendorff's chapter in a volume edited by Dow Kirkpatrick (1974) titled THE HOLY SPIRIT, we are cautioned NOT to slide into Gnostic beliefs....

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He is lifted above the deserted wilderness as a snake
His tail is the starlight river that flows into delight 
Christ bursts forth the brightest river so every pearl can return home


(Inspired by the teaching by the ancient Gnostic sect the "Peratics" that Christ opened a door to paradise through the draco constellation)...

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Trapped in slothfulness
Trapped in spiral labyrinth
Will she leave her shell





Inspired by a mosiac art of snails in Aquileia Basilica. Explained here: https://theomagica.com/blog/visit-to-a-gnostic-sanctum-aquileia

Aquileia's official website explaining the site: http://www.comune.aquileia.ud.it/index.php?id=6903&L=4...

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All shall sing of Attis 
As the moon of Rhea 
And not with bells’ thunder
And not with a wind flute 
All shall sing, all shall sing 
As shepherd of the stars
As heaven’s crescent moon

Date: 03/03/2022
No syllable counter used

Note:Rhea is pronounced RAY-uh, making two syllables.

Inspired by a Naassene poem from the Gnostic Bible....

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Praying to the light
Trampling the night's basilisk
With its seven heads
Crushing serpent and lion
Trampling the legless dragon 
Through the light stream that crowned her

This is a bussokusekika poem, a form of japanese poetry with the syllable count of 5-7-5-7-7-7

This is based on the spiritual account from the Pistis Sophia Chapter 66....

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Archon of the west, whose spouse was the worldly Sophia
Who blindly abandoned his childhood lamb, to search for unseen light
Though the lamb could have showed him the pure gnosis he craved for


Poem (from a Gnostic Christian perspective) about the Roman Emperor Julian the Apostate, who abandoned Christianity in favour for philosophical Paganism....

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I gaze a stalky single-helix cradle,
Squished so in seemingly hydrous blue cover,
Attracts square substantial planes in a bundle.

I embrace now feather's mass helve to ladle
Psychic portraits siphon to it in wander.
My fist fiddles as it scribbles on oodles.

Cuts of a suckling tree, soil, river fondle
Paper, pen, poet in cahoots as lovers
Rupture of a skeptic smug gnostic noodle...

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And how shall we trace the
trajectory of a lungless scream
coming out of a slit throat?
Time was overrun by gnostic
resentment in absolute mind.

The fury of a gathering food riot:
do you hear the memorial rising,
		rising –
on bones of hunger, swollen eyelids?
Soon they will meet on the bellies.

The fumigation starts, of lies
a bactericidal, to wipe out the germs
in dumb minds. The prognosis failed,
life moves in a tunnel, absent
and present!


SATISH VERMA...

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If this was -


If this will be -


Just another "infinite desert":


One yet falls down to one's


Knees -


Faithfully, if need be,


Digs down, with one's own two good hands,


Digs into the burning, shifting, choking sand;


For just there:


Under the turning, biting grit, under the


Cloudless sky, the blinding sun:


Rushing, mighty, Life-Giving Water rising;


Earth-shaking calm;


Perfect, placid, Gnostic twin fish -


Lazily aware....

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