Saturday, August 5, 2017

The Bright Extensive Will / AE Reiff


The Bright Extensive Will

                         For Beatrice

As starry seas are caught up into clouds
To whirl Earth's sphere throughout all time,
Through space and out, where rising in a shroud
They roll the bright extensive will to find
Their will to fall again in showers, so crowds
Descending off the wheel give misty signs
Of life, and sons of Elohim who bow
From out the sky, concentrated and blind
In all their beams, then enter creation.
As though one could with the word written
In earth's center in the matter of its making,
As earth's heart was into pieces breaking,
Come into the body. Then wars should cease,
And earth, all surface, sky and core, find peace.

~~
AE Reiff, 2017

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1 comment:

  1. Before publication at Penny the search result for "bright extensive will" was the Dogen's Extensive Record: A Translation of Eihei Koroku. https://terebess.hu/zen/dogen/EiheiKoroku.pdf

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