Poems, essays, and other writings by eric bleys

Penance

Oceans moved across my eyelids

As I was drenched in the heart of this, the mountain’s fire

By then, the standards from which the earth is seen

Was in itself, a moon light’s dream

Mirrors upon these mirrors

Made sparks to build these, the abstractions

And in this it is seen

Oh, behold this, the image of my sin

On that fateful hour, where I was the heart of death

But now in this eon which is repentance

I am on the fog of a stairwell

And I am deeply

In the purity of the wind

Which grows like steam in the wild jungle

Pure bird, that dove which is only of the light

This is it, the power, and the might

From which I find all soft and tender things

Delicately is that, my ring

This my heart

My heart is this

A holy wall

For it is therein

That I have sinned

And now it is

Where I am forgiven

By the salt of prayer, and mercy, and kindness

I can be anything

But I am that which is re-imagined

I am a dove

By the light of these ages

I flood our forests like the rain

And I spread the world

All in this

Only our infinite bliss.


(Penance, EB).


Visions

Commemoration (WW1)