Logos (IV. Communion) / George J. Dance

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Post Meridiem / George J. Dance

Post Meridiem

Venomous time is slithering
across manicured lawns
in stealth, concealed
by lengthening
squares of
eclipse.

Bit
by bit
it crawls
at its leisure
into the flowerbeds

and their lights go dark
and their melody falls silent.

~~
George J. Dance, 2020

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The Branch / AE Reiff

The Branch

When

the Lord of All

descended into flesh,

came through the

 million worlds

into the one

of mercy,

wisdom,

beauty,

love,

unlike the prism that divides the ray,

undiffused, he came into the body's clay,

the Son

of the

Divine

Wisdom,

the Son, the

Incarnate

Redeemer.

Our world

has been

recovered

by his being

no extra-

terrestrial

 intelligence;

his human body

shaped it to a tree 

that roots in wisdom

but whose beauty's trunk

to the earth sphere a branch extended,

on that tree the Lord Beauteous hung suspended,

and then we were enabled to receive him.

~~
AE Reiff, 2016

from The True Light that Lights, 2020

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Solitude Surrounded / AE Reiff

 Solitude Surrounded

Speaking

Of the white ace

Of spades in the universe surrounded,

using words like mystic and visionary

 to confound each other,

we go our way de-verbalizing verse.

But there is a human need of singing,

of praise to prove us grateful for our being

beyond what the cathode and the radio say,

everyone tells us we’re not meant for that.

Different temperaments for all, humanly speaking,

till  no one is left in the world but ourselves singing

the Great Solitude, surrounded by the air our gravities attract,

not thoughts like our own but their opposites,

solitude surrounded, compassed by pets,

 homes, wives, children, oceans, walls,

When a monastery would have suited best

And

We

Live

Long

 Lives.

~~

AE Reiff

2012
Encouragements for Planting
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