Spiritual

Spiritual poetry, like sacred text, can be aphoristic, vague, have a sense of sublimity or arcana, and, where the great example  of the Psalms stands out, reveal an individuals longing, suffering, and growth.  In the Psalms the prominent figure was the writings of King David.

Names of people, especially, carry import as, if you take the Biblical explanation rather than the Shakespearean, a name is a reputation, and not “by any other name would a rose smell as sweet…”   Therein lies the rub, as a name is a reputation, the utterance or writing of it carries all the weight of either sin or glory, virtue or false.  In any case, the first recollection I have of really “seeing” poetry occurred from a collection called “Ode to Flowers.”  Leonardo da Vinci stated: “there are 3 kinds of people.  Those who see, those who see when they are shown, and those who do not see.”  I believe this applies to poetry as well, and not just the visual and sculpting arts.

Some poet’s do undergo “the dark night of the soul” before awakening to poetic attunement.  It is a diamond and gold sort of  artistic and spiritual expression.  Not everyone appreciates every poem in the same way.  My greatest inspirer is Alfred Lord Tennyson who’s “Two Voices” became a real and living memory in experience.  

Some of the work following may appear incoherent, obtuse.

Divulging into chaos is not my intent.

Disorder is the place of every vile thing.