TWO POEMS

 

IMMORTALITIES

 

The bud plucked

while in its deep dream flowering,

casts of virgin fragrance

a nostalgic look.

 

The vision effaced

while in its sudden dawn revealing,

casts on the fretted screen of slumber

a troubling dream of symbols.

 

The life smothered

while in its brief breath aspiring,

casts in the Creation’s soul

a maelstrom of wrong.

 

THE NARCISSUS MOMENT

 

Amid the mind’s drawn shutters,

in the deep snugness, I sit and watch

the glimmers of my day-shy dreams.

 

Silence-rapt, I listen in

to the soft flood of feelings

by phantom gates sluiced.

 

Into a beam of sense composed

I sense my thoughts burgeon

like silent shoots at night.

 

In that Narcissus Moment, strangers

utter my name, their veils slipping,

and I glimpse of my vastness the Vision.

 

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