III. Beyonder
xlii. Beyonder
BEYONDER
Opaque waves threw a grain of light
Onto the vacant shore of sight.
Saunterer touched it in the dark
And on his heart was burnt the mark,
BEYONDER!
Upon that portless beach he fell
And raised his head and beheld hell.
At once that song which angels sung
Escaped his mouth in flaming tongue,
BEYONDER!
In crystal homes though it was late,
Cold words and songs mocked his soul’s state;
Ahead, a moondust path grew high,
And from his pain escaped a sigh,
BEYONDER!
“Chase not that Way!” the blind man said,
“Light fills the city overhead;
The thoughts of Truth are deep and wide!”
And loud the flaming voice replied,
BEYONDER!
“Come here,” the lady said, and drown
Thy pain with me. Please take me down!”
Hot tears dripped off his frozen cheek
And from his heart she heard love speak,
BEYONDER!
“Beware the narrow path you take!
The crystal dreams we shared shall break!”
This was his brothers’ last adieu.
A voice replied, known long but new,
BEYONDER!
Aimed towards Heaven he ran from night,
Cursing his fate to embrace life.
Above the stars and sky he went
And with each breath this word was sent:
BEYONDER!
Outside the pearl gate was found
A lifeless traveler on the ground.
Strapped to his back a wooden sign
Stained with red blood bore the design,
BEYONDER!
The King ran out to meet this boy;
“Enter into my peace and joy!”
Down on the earth, alone and gray,
The deaf men could hear angels say
BEYONDER!
xliii Christmas Dresses
Christmas Dresses
What pretty dresses are you wearing?
Don’t believe that I’m uncaring.
When the night falls, my tears begin.
Our love’s eternal, and therein
Our prayers are clever, to some extent—
And only you three know what I meant.
This magic’s yours, it seems to me—
What Autumn redness left in this tree;
And faith reforms the strongest reason
For snow to bring our favorite season.
Love’s life’s strongest quality,
And beauty’s like astronomy—
Your love surpasses time and space.
(Everything I promised will soon take place.)
Visions will light story time
With hopes and questions all sublime.
And these days we shall revise
With songs that make the future rise.
xliv. . .
. .
These are my wordless prayers:
can you see them burning in me
like Binary Stars??
Please hold them in your hands
Like your so lovely so lovely
Everlasting Flowers
xlv. A Lovely Lovely Lily
A Lovely Lovely Lily
Eternities, eons and epochs flower.
And you shall have peace. With me,
I hold a lily.
Come listen. Draw closer and closer—
Echoes foreswore, you now foresee…
Behold Peace as king in every color:
For you shall have peace with me.
And wisdom stands with him, for she
Is with him always, and she
Waved each stream, planted every tree.
I hold a lily, a lovely lily.
Wisdom’s lively ways are pleasant, her
Paths are also flights of the honeybee
As it were—sweetly appeared, all musically.
You shall have peace with me.
You shall have peace with me.
xlvi. Mark
Mark
We weep within our soul
A vision of a father
Who, like a dark storm cloud,
Holds Melissa his wife,
Her all-branching lightenings.
—And within their heart-embraces,
Their sweet infant Isla Rose—
Falls asleep like Springtime rains/
–XOXO, XOXO
xlvii. Laniakea
Laniakea
U n d r e a m t of L o v e,
In the springtime wind the trees are stirred.
. . .gracious love, merciful grace…
. . .he was a beautiful boy.
The sky, all the clouds thereof,
(And beside the brook: one day-praising bird),
Were all this U n d r e a m t of Love,
And then, these—Other worlds to Prove.
This is something you will always chase, face…
Only when you’ve
Graciously loved merciful grace.
The springtime wind re-placed, restirred—
. All Motionlessness, in sound, was moved!
Listen! discern, retrace
All this U n d r e a m t of Love . . .
Love forever your Undreamt of L o v e
Again, she moved. . . and you heard,
From high above, word for word,
Merciful grace—
. . .
Somehow breath became God’s beautiful face.
--for Charity
xlviii. She Does What She Does
She Does What She Does, , ,
Could your heart count their summer’s
Flowers? It was the number of eternity;
And their number was a universe of galaxies…
As if the sky today, with all
Her bright and dark unweaving winds, was
All fiery trees and falling, golden leaves.
As though the sky tonight, where Orion
Caused or seemed to cause meteors
To rain down (from one heaven
To another heaven)… was only heaven, too.
Because this is something you always knew:
Autumn turns the world into an untold
Place, and she can only do what she loves
To do; and what she always does, she does.
--for Charity
xlix. Ballad Moon
Ballad Moon
You were her first dream.
She dreamed that you
Were her every dream—
She knew you were
Her Star before she knew
What a dream her
Star was. You’re still
Her soule Star,
Her high lifelong every-
Thing, and her
Heart loves this promise,
O her heart
Loves this promise proved
By fire, loves
These perfect signs, these splendid
Nights and days, these
Bright dreams and brilliant
Daydreams—bright
Dreams about the Sun,
And daydreams
About the Moon. Remind
Us all about
Sunlight in the heaven
Of…moonlight
In the heaven of
Her glowing within
Even our night—agleam with
Dazzling light!—Even
Her face and eyes were filled
With light—her
Smiling all within
Her lover’s smile!
You you Were were Her her Star Star
Her her Heart heart Loves loves
These these Bright bright Dreams daydreams
About about Sunlight moonlight
In within Even even Her her Smiling smile!
l. Crowns
Crowns
Do you know you always wear a crown?
Is every day and night of life an altered
crown, a crown of splendor? The night
sky wears a breathtaking crown of stars.
Do you wear a crown of leaves, or
a crown of light? When abundance crowns
the year, do you sleep in peach shade?
Like me, you have inherited the pure
gold brightness of the suns. Have you worn
the crown of glory itself? the lovers crown
Of pure compassion? Have you ever worn
The crown of a child’s honor? And have
you worn the dark crown of an accuser’s
condemnation? …Or a crown of thorns,
a crown of total blackness? Have you ever
kissed the painted crown of Vashti? Or yet
received the crown promised by the Lord?
the victor’s crown? the crown of knowledge?
Who has crowned you crowned with snow
the mountains. And after grief, joy
will be your crown—you simply cannot
count the jewels, the stars, or the flowers!
li. New Creation
New Creation
This looks like
Me smiling at you
Smiling at me…
This feels like
A single flame of fire
In our hearts…
This sounds so silent,
Like a tongue of flame
So silent to listen to
That as you can hear
The meanings of the motions in
Space—then everything within it—
This will taste like
One sweet, small book:
Written in Heaven…
This is what
Is revealed:
To first exist
As a holy ring of Holy light
In the womb of what
Shall become
Infinitude…
And, now, what does this sound like now?
You’ve been listening all along…
lii. Hope
h o p e
Hope walks all day; she can shake hands
All day, and sometimes she’s quiet until you
Introduce yourself. Sometimes she sits
And reads or writes all day—
And if you shun her, brightly and darkly
Hope endures. Hope can pray all day.
And hope can stand all night in the rain.
If she turns to the right, that’s good, and
If she turns to the left.
If you disregard her eternal power of
Dialogical grace, then hope always lets
You recapture the vision of the futures beauty.
Hope tried to catch you, and you can catch
Hope as easily as the earth catches each season,
As each season fills the world with love
In its own way.
liii. Love
Love:
…bejeweled.bestarred.bestirred.
be far.be here
be dearly beloved. be
liv. Adi Jane
Adi Jane
Oh, Adalyn, with smile and heart so sweet,
On you our Lord gently bestows
The blessing of the lovely snows.
Your love I shall always entreat
Until our lives finally complete
What it is, love knows,
How it is life grows…
With every heartbeat we repeat
…On you our Lord gently bestows
Bright mornings; come strawberries, come spring—
…Come first this blessing of the lovely snows;
Come delight, hail Mary, come joy, come sing!...
Space is so gracious | on the prairie!
Sing! Grace is so spacious | in January!
L.D./D.V.
. . .