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Title: Dark Night
Post by: Jennifer- on March 28, 2009, 03:19:03 AM
Dark Night

    In this dark night,
    I dreamt a dream.
    And in that dream,
    I saw a church,
    Built with a chapel
    Of the opened crocus.
    And I knew it spoke of
    Sexual love,
    That lifted up
    The river of Life
    Beyond its usual borders.

    Then, worshipping
    There in that
    Opened flower
    My wondering mind asked -
    When the crocus
    Opens in myself,
    What will I have reached to
    In this life?

    So, sifting the immensity
    That Life holds out
    To each of us,
    I looked to see
    If I already knew the answers,
    And it seems I do.

    And so I asked –
    Is it God that I will find?
    And my experience replied –
    If you wish for a God,
    Then you can create
    One out of your own longing,
    Your energies,
    And your creativity –
    And that God will be wondrous.

    But when I look
    To the roots of my experience,
    I do not find a God.
    I find the fundaments
    Of my own being –
    A primal awareness
    That is ever with me
    Though seldom dwelt in.
    It is a reality not a God.
    It is a foundation
    In my being,
    Not a being giving me foundation.

    And what is there to find
    Save consciousness and its reality?
    It leads to no wonders –
    It is a wonder.
    There is no escape from self.
    But there is the liberation
    Of that realisation.

    For I am myself
    The only truth there is.
    And too,
    A passing shadow.


Copyright ©2006 Tony Crisp

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Title: Re: Dark Night
Post by: Jennifer- on March 28, 2009, 03:23:04 AM
I just very slowly reread this poem.. and must admit to trying to delete it after.. but I cant. lol

Something doesnt sit well in my stomache with it.. anyone agree or disagree?
Title: Re: Dark Night
Post by: tangerine dream on March 28, 2009, 03:52:05 AM
Same feeling here.
 :-X
churning
Title: Re: Dark Night
Post by: Firestarter on March 28, 2009, 03:57:35 PM
Too nihilistic.