After Dante-canto- 7 sample

Dream Traveller is in progress. As a sample here is today’s exercise. Heart as a spiritual space. Rev.3.20

Canto-7

1.

The seraph said, “Man, what’s seen is temporal

Seek space instead a home where every part divine

Word upholds it, both sound and sign eternal.

2.

Changing vistas with each step, enter therein, man

See the little one at the door, he is none other

The inner man the child who’s there by design.

3.

See yonder the divine Son rapping at the door

It is for you refuse or permit the man-child

The duo must however await your answer.

4.

If that be so, bid them entry spirit guide

Their ease and their honour I would crave

I reckon as blessed that they with me abide.

5.

“Your faith, your own’ Jesus Christ in a voice grave,

“Sets you free and we shall abide you and I. ”

Between us was laid supper, Oh my soul brave

6

My words fail me utterly, neither my eye

Can decipher the delectable table spread;

And above fluttered Love banner, Ah me !

7.

“I bid you in return for repast ahead

Great Supper of my father for his beloved

The event ever was in His Will determined

8.

As blessed of the Lord the sale deed signed

Before witness, deem it as your heart

An earthen pot such as Jeremiah did.”

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After Dante: Dream traveller

This fragment is taken from my current project: it traces my spiritual journey across the landscape of the Scripture. No polemics, no sermons but the dream bound within the dream we call life, and must be set forth in clarity, It is surreal but that iis the way phantasmagorical view our innerman presents as we dream. What else can justify but in an epic format? In recreating this work I am not following Divine Comedy but of my own understanding: knowledge of the holy. I find an angel to show me around, who is my other half, heavenly spirit: There is only single measurement, man/angel so the city of God is the ‘Holy Grail” I am seeking. I have done 4 cantos and this fragment related to the last. Some 90+ cantos yet to go. By 2026 year end I hope to complete the work.

The poem is in tercets, imitating Dante’s terza rima as much as possible. The poet finds himself lost since his spirit guide on a sudden errand is away-benny

1.

All dark in here,- oh, unless divine grace given

From above, a mote of light beam will do

Am I falling or rising, Oh spirit guide of mine

2.

But thick as treacle the night of my soul outdo

In craven fear without my angel, I am lost

In this soul’s blackout, What little can I do?

3.

 A faint tremor faraway, tread of angelic host

A mischief by false angels must instant remedy,

As cold breath my hope in the gloom was lost.

4.

As with dream in wipe-out o’ time, one is ready

To believe the lost cause as my eyes espied

Seven blurs of light, march from far but steady;

5.

A disembodied menorah, Ah me, vied

For the all too recurring sign reappear

The seam of gold now double bright blazing wide;

6.

Out of the welter of wild surmises and fear

My mind in throes moulted wings, the eagle wings

The blackness was o’er, in flurry of hope thrown rear.

7.

‘I was sent over’ the lampstand whirling rings

Around my mental disarray to recall the voice

‘Cross the expanse of celestial beings or things?

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