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For the mystics through the ages, spiritual joy

and Divine love seems to represent the state of

being lost in the love of God. I find poetry 

the perfect medium to express spiritual sentiments

such as joy and divine love, as in my poem

below titled Divine Light.  Note that these

poems often sound like traditional love poems

and seem to reference what seems like romantic

love to describe the spiritual experience.

 

DIVINE LIGHT

The sun shines brightly on my soul

     full of love and joy, waiting

      to burst forth on this day

             and on humanity

 warm – enticing –  penetrating

    like a lover in full ecstasy –

    I am alive within the divine

       within the energy of life

                  refreshed.

 

Rumi, the Sufi mystic and poet, was born

in Afghanistan in 1207, wrote many poems

that focused on spiritual love and ecstasy, and

only after a few readings do you realize he is

referring to God, not some overpowering

romantic love. This type of love is described

by the Sufis as “full fana,” which represents 

annihilation in God.

 

Here is the poem O Love by Rumi.

 

                             O LOVE 

O Love, O pure deep Love, be here, be now

       Be all – worlds dissolve into your

              Stainless endless radiance,

Frail living leaves burn with your brighter

                        Than cold stares

Take me your servant, your breath, your core.

 

WITH LOVE, G.

 

 

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Often, I allow the words to appear and find

their place as willed from beyond, or perhaps 

deep within myself, I am never quite sure,

and as with most things spiritual, the source

is not readily clarified. 

 

I do believe this force that touches our hearts, 

that some of us recognize as divine is not held

to our narrow perspective: our sliver of time;

but is, the becoming itself is the emergence

of life pursued, encouraging all who will listen 

to strive further, to keep pushing, thus being

made more alive by the very momentum 

created out of our living and like a joyful

child being playfully spun - shrieking

with laughter - cajoling us to spin faster -

please, faster. 

  

THE PURSUIT OF BECOMING

Allow what is to be, without fret 

or sorrow or consternation, 

being aware of the true destiny

of this existence, a life lived 

in pursuit of becoming

what has been established

before, and will be forever after:

predestined destiny, the arising

of fuller, more fragrant possibility,

do not dismay but flourish,

for this time has been and will

forever be a charted course

of a multitude of strivings,

reachings, graspings, and when

a grip is found, seeking leverage,

summoning strength and finding

new ground, an unexpected stance,

a wary balance, a fresh perspective,

a new, ripe beginning from which

to reach, to strive, to seek again

and again, and forever again –

in pursuit of becoming.

POEM BY G. 9.24.2015 

 

WITH LOVE, G.

 

 

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VESTIBULE OF WOE

 

I feel the pounding

of the surf of life

within this vestibule of woe.

Alive we move transfixed

with the dream

fully engaged in the

pursuit of a destiny

beyond our grasp

but within our genes.

I move between two

states of consciousness,

both puzzled by my progress

and too far away to reach either.

Sanity is but an interpretation

of my own twisted perception.

I see this vestibule of woe -

lifelike - a brief passage from

one door to the next –

an entertaining game,

where we find meaning

in forgotten moments,

or are drawn into our

own illusion – until

we gasp for breath,

turning the dark to light,

the night to day.

 

POEM G. 2.1.2010      

 

WITH LOVE, G.