Portafolio, a set on Flickr.
portafolio David Jar
I am sitting on a mountain.
I am casting shadows into the sky.
I did not invite it but the sun has come
And is now playing tag with my feet.
I am whispering to clouds today,
“Watch out for my shoulders,”
For I wish no harm
To all my soft friends.
Where do you think you will Be
When God reveals Himself
Inside of you?
I was so glad to hear
That every pillow in this world
Will become stuffed with
My soul and beard.
I am sitting on a mountain range.
I am a precious body of living water
Offered to the earth
From Light’s own hands.
Why ever talk of miracles
When you are destined to become
Infinite love.
Still, the Final Grace was left:
For all of existence and Hafiz to blend
And to find that I am every pillow
Offering comfort
To each mind and
TRUTH is within ourselves; it takes no rise | |
From outward things, whate’er you may believe. | |
There is an inmost centre in us all, | |
Where truth abides in fullness; and around, | |
Wall upon wall, the gross flesh hems it in, | 5 |
This perfect, clear perception—which is truth. | |
A baffling and perverting carnal mesh | |
Binds it, and makes all error: and, to KNOW, | |
Rather consists in opening out a way | |
Whence the imprisoned splendour may escape, | 10 |
Than in effecting entry for a light | |
Supposed to be without. | |
II I knew, I felt, (perception unexpressed, | |
Uncomprehended by our narrow thought, | |
But somehow felt and known in every shift | 15 |
And change in the spirit,—nay, in every pore | |
Of the body, even,)—what God is, what we are | |
What life is—how God tastes an infinite joy | |
In infinite ways—one everlasting bliss, | |
From whom all being emanates, all power | 20 |
Proceeds; in whom is life for evermore, | |
Yet whom existence in its lowest form | |
Includes; where dwells enjoyment there is he: | |
With still a flying point of bliss remote, | |
A happiness in store afar, a sphere | 25 |
Of distant glory in full view; thus climbs | |
Pleasure its heights for ever and for ever. | |
The centre-fire heaves underneath the earth, | |
And the earth changes like a human face; | |
The molten ore bursts up among the rocks, | 30 |
Winds into the stone’s heart, outbranches bright | |
In hidden mines, spots barren river-beds, | |
Crumbles into fine sand where sunbeams bask— | |
God joys therein! The wroth sea’s waves are edged | |
With foam, white as the bitten lip of hate, | 35 |
When, in the solitary waste, strange groups | |
Of young volcanos come up, cyclops-like, | |
Staring together with their eyes on flame— | |
God tastes a pleasure in their uncouth pride. | |
Then all is still; earth is a wintry clod: | 40 |
But spring-wind, like a dancing psaltress, passes | |
Over its breast to waken it, rare verdure | |
Buds tenderly upon rough banks, between | |
The withered tree-roots and the cracks of frost, | |
Like a smile striving with a wrinkled face; | 45 |
The grass grows bright, the boughs are swoln with blooms | |
Like chrysalids impatient for the air, | |
The shining dorrs are busy, beetles run | |
Along the furrows, ants make their ade; | |
Above, birds fly in merry flocks, the lark | 50 |
Soars up and up, shivering for very joy; | |
Afar the ocean sleeps; white fishing-gulls | |
Flit where the strand is purple with its tribe | |
Of nested limpets; savage creatures seek | |
Their loves in wood and plain—and God renews | 55 |
His ancient rapture. Thus He dwells in all, | |
From life’s minute beginnings, up at last | |
To man—the consummation of this scheme | |
Of being, the completion of this sphere | |
Of life: whose attributes had here and there | 60 |
Been scattered o’er the visible world before, | |
Asking to be combined, dim fragments meant | |
To be united in some wondrous whole, | |
Imperfect qualities throughout creation, | |
Suggesting some one creature yet to make, | 65 |
Some point where all those scattered rays should meet | |
Convergent in the faculties of man. |
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