Poems, essays, and other writings by eric bleys

Visions

The world flies by like images

Photographs

Flowing forward from the film projector

And melting our fine hours into the mind

I saw beneath these, the frames of life

The cracks underneath the screen

From which emerges

A vision of the light beneath the film

When one sees it

The gaps between the slides of the film

We detach ourselves

From the lust of worldly joy

And we leap for wonder like April streams

As they come sliding down the mountains from these lights

Of the melting snow

Hour upon hour I wait

Yet the eternal present is always before me

And it never disappoints me

Like the glory of the sun and the moon combined

Or like the radiance of all the stars at once

It is ours

As is the glory of every mountain, and river, and shade

All the planets are moving in harmony

All the galaxies are spinning together with love

This is it, the eternal present

A glory of everything


For you were Kind to me

Penance