Senryu - Pilgrim

 

VIEWS FROM THE PATH

 

O  Lady - sapphire
Amid birds and bells - hold high
Your golden thunder

(Madonna del Sasso 15/7/01)

 

In thrilling palms, live
Lightning carries the holy
Word down God's mountain

 

Thunder over Lake -
Men, fireworks, no sleep. No sleep!
Dawn storm! God's are best!

(Locarno 15/7/01 .... dawn....)

 

Gold Sun God, O laugh
out loud as you net the heart's
highway with free light

(Atenolol! ... 8/9/01 21h40)

  

Mountain Seraphim
Hymn in opalescent fire
A Holy sunset

(Menai Strait, spring 2003)

 

The storm of Heaven
So flooded my spring with Love
Even the Sun drowns!

(week of prayer for Christian unity 18/01/04 - 24/01/04)

  

Man whose skin fell off
Under the sc0urge of karma
God whose skin fell off

('the  boy whose skin fell off' CH4 25/3/04 9h00 pm)

 

The Passion

Beaten back across
Time raw passion bred of life
Dyes history red

Beyond the gate his
Blood spatters a rising moon
The world shatters

Sunset bloody moon
Crosses out Love, all square now
Until the next time

(March 2004)

 

Skinned alive, the Lamb
Imploring me beyond sobs...
I cannot save you

(29/05/06 - after dream ../05/06)

 

Gospel

A few red letters
Weigh down millennia with
Clarifications ...

A few red letters
Millennia
Of footnotes

Christmas is over -
Supermarket hot cross buns
Scent the New Year



A tear falls.
A pearl f0rms.
A prayer rises.

(23/05/04)

 

Five lines in the blue
At C sharp the Sunday sun
Feast with an octave

(jet-trails over Holy Trinity Ascension Sunday  23/5/04)

 

 

Whether to join in -
Murder in the Cathedral
Salve vagina

(29/05/04-10 yrs of women priests @ Durham)

 

Even a whisper
Rings too loud. Hushed  by Cuthbert
Our old lives steal back

(28-29/5/04 Durham Cathedral)

 

Only God is perfect.
Now I know  why
I never finish the wall-papering

28/5/04

 

Rosslyn in the rain
Lightning indoors, magic lace,
Beauty & breath caught

(1/06/04)

 

In my old habit
Sitting on warm stone to hear
The Word I gilded

(Lindisfarne Abbey 2/6/04- written 9/06/04 00h20+)

 

So near my old cell
Tears well for another wake
Disturbing the lake

(12/08/04)

 
How will Mind create
Heaven in our image without
Murdering the world?

 

Butchered Judas tree
Kiss goodbye to your cold crown.
Have I betrayed you...?

(pruning Forest Pansy 22/11/08)

  

Cybele's lion
Wounds me Once Felicia
Offered violets

(28/3/09 - after dream on 24/3 showing me past life, and Web research)

 

Vast lawns? Cropped heather.
A cell, not gold. Bright foxes.
God's dance in my heart

(12/04/09-big dream c.07h30 )

 

Trapping the Nightmare,
Naming it, I nail its rage
To Love's mighty Cross.

(20/04/09-big nightmare - Pluto Asc., etc.)

 

Wheel to wheel
God's fingertip from Adam
Inseparable

 

Years of ecstasies
Then you arrived and I stopped
Writing poetry