Poems, essays, and other writings by eric bleys

The Transformation of my Sorrow

The sparks were aligned with a dark cover, and in the brown warmth of this concatenation; I see my sorrow transformed by the moving image into the light of the sunny river. The shapes of heaven are like the circles of modernity, and yet they thwart the pride of our imagination. For when I trust in the grace of a great mystery, I know that the medieval paint on the foreground of the present is in my soul which speaks boldly with a great foundation, for it is not in my machinery that I rejoice in the land of sorrow. For the blood of the field is great, and the eyes of the valley are haunted. And so my trust in things divine is the light which is so earthly and so present by the wilderness. I shall not fear the dust of my mortality, but I shall believe in the constellation of forever upon forever, and in the purity of my fortitude which is evermore in me, as a light and as a path amidst the beauty of all the darkness upon the earth. And in the subliminal constituencies of the elements, I see the black completion of the blessed heaven above, and the heavy frames creating the sacred soil from which is the produce of the hearts perfection.

Achilles on the Field of War

The City of Love