For
me the province of poetry is a private ecstasy made public, and
the social role of the poet is to display moments of shared universal
epiphanies capable of healing our sense of mortal estrangement—from
ourselves, from each other, from our source, from our destiny, from
The Divine.
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KNOT OF GOLD
The Prophet took people of abject poverty
and strewed rubies at their feet
There was no glass in the Prophet’s windows
for any brick to break
In each heart he ties a knot of gold
whose two ends make eternity’s
radiant reclining figure eight
gazed upon by God
We can stand in the door he made in
our being or stride through it into God’s
Presence
The Prophet never rode out on his she camel
but that they longed for his return
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(from The Fire-Eater's Lunchbreak)
For
me the province of poetry is a private ecstasy made public, and
the social role of the poet is to display moments of shared universal
epiphanies capable of healing our sense of mortal estrangement—from
ourselves, from each other, from our source, from our destiny, from
The Divine.
