STRENGTH IS

Initial Poetic-Dictation Triptych (2/3)

[Note: Mobile viewing may incorrectly line-break a few of the longer verses; read in a browser if you prefer always accurate formatting] Received 4/17/2023 | ~11am

STRENGTH IS
Transcendent beauty, roaring
Rampaging inelegance, reverent(ial)
Laughing solemnly at the 
     Levity of Life, severe
     in its commitment to fallacy.
The harrowing of hell is an
     illusion—illudere, homo ludens
     a game played at the hands of an eternal
     youth, you are covered in
     bright colored multivalent baubles
     bouncing and solid and light.
Gravity dances along the horizons
     of our being, never yet becoming;
     gaily we cry a tearless
     weep, sweeping living leaves up
     elder trees, glowing fiercely 
     with warm golden light, pulsing
     up, and down, and in out beyond
     Reaching, and touching, and holding
     The gently supple wrinkles of 
     an ancient love, an unbegotten
     Beloving, beloven, belost
How does one relish in feeble fealty
     The sound of self congruence
     A confluence of grim kindness
     Humble in its approach, quiet
     in its cruelty, its generosity.
     Grace everlasting, sails full and
     Billowing, bellowing, belowing
When you pause the set and
     settle into the nest of now
Will you sing? Will you lift your 
     voice from on high, and look.
     Look around you, and see.
     See all that is around you.
It is a field of mines, pitfalls, 
Treasures interwoven mere inches
     Apart, doom and destiny.
     Your doom is your destiny.
     The journey is not your destination.
     And the destination is where we must
     Reach; reach, and touch, and hold
     That ancient love, that unbegotten
     Belonging where we find, at last,
     Not where we are, but How.
God is Nowhere Apparent. 
God is Now Here Apparent. 
Utopia is Ou-topia, not Eu-topia.
It is nowhere. It is not where. 
Not a place, but a-way,
of Life, of Living, of Loving
with a force unknown even to your soul
Undeniable post-diluvian delightening.
Delightenment awaits you within you
As you.
No longer reaching;
No longer touching;
No longer holding; 
You are that I am:
You are always here—
You are all-ways here.

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Post-Diluvian Delightening (2022)

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