Who could doubt the beautiful truth, or the majestic beauty, of this exceptional work, draped as it is in the fabrics of mesmerizing artistry and the lights of noble spiritual intent? A wonderful celebration of poetry as philosophy, and vice versa, from the first syllable to the last.
Aberjhani
The creative body of the lead poet does well to surround himself with the true souls of artistic creation. The reflective analogy in the Body poetic ideal is in the twin mirrors, which open the way to a feat, of both poetic and optical alchemy that can transmute starlight into total darkness. This feat of optical alchemy is called nulling interferometry and it relies on the fact that light waves have crests and troughs just like waves on the water.
"My body is shaped by overlapping moments
Of light and dark:
By the substance of being
Grown into the stuff of becoming"
By precisely aligning the light waves gathered by the two mirrors from a particular point in the sky, astronomers can overlap the wave crests from one mirror with the troughs from the other so that the light simply cancels out. For this scheme to succeed, the light beams have to be guided and merged with exquisite precision, just like the Body Poetic. You have the aspirations, the creative body, and inside, you are the poetic ideal, Jude.
"By the substance of being
Grown into the stuff of becoming" Insightfully brilliant wisdom Jude! (As it is all!) :-D
Reviewed by Cassandra Rouge (Reader)
Reviewed on May 10, 2006
Juicy, visceral, congruent... tasty read.
"My body is shaped by overlapping moments
Of light and dark:
By the substance of being
Grown into the stuff of becoming"
You dive deep and surface with such elegant
descriptions of your experience.
Ooooo.... makes me want to rush and get my Homo Poeticus out of the closet for a repost! :)) This seems a membrane-breaking write to me, Jude... perhaps I just have them on the brain today for some reason. As Peter says, consummate indeed. A knife-edge also comes to mind - think it is the "membrane" of mirror-imaging, the proximity of the "real" and the "reflection": that's the "allegorical conduit" versus "subjective appearance" stanza. For some strange reason it reminds me greatly of the tone and vibrancy of "I wait for you..." and is perhaps a fulfillment of that. But it is a poem that has its sails wonderfully trimmed for venture and conquest and the wind is luffing up nicely, I'd say... !! K xx
Especially love the body is a heaven/hell of cliched actions couplet {if I may call it that). As for
"My body is shaped by overlapping moments
Of light and dark:
By the substance of being
Grown into the stuff of becoming
It celebrates the dawn
While enveloping the dusk" don't be surprised if I
start leaning on you to let me quote in part re a piece
about Dorothea Lange and photography that I am struggling
with. Black and white, light and shadow, so many thoughts,
so little time.
Thank you for posting this, robert jude. Very stimulating. 'Pea' <3
Ace
The poetic words...... and comments below say it all
You flow with the synchronicity of the Universe, oblivious to the rip tides, and consummate in your approach and execution...
Peter
You have delivered the essence of your liquid thoughts and squeezed them into the cup of clarity from which you have allowed each of us to drink. Very nice poem and another of yours into my library, Jude.
Take care,
Sherry
Aberjhani
"My body is shaped by overlapping moments
Of light and dark:
By the substance of being
Grown into the stuff of becoming"
By precisely aligning the light waves gathered by the two mirrors from a particular point in the sky, astronomers can overlap the wave crests from one mirror with the troughs from the other so that the light simply cancels out. For this scheme to succeed, the light beams have to be guided and merged with exquisite precision, just like the Body Poetic. You have the aspirations, the creative body, and inside, you are the poetic ideal, Jude.
Sage
Grown into the stuff of becoming" Insightfully brilliant wisdom Jude! (As it is all!) :-D
"My body is shaped by overlapping moments
Of light and dark:
By the substance of being
Grown into the stuff of becoming"
You dive deep and surface with such elegant
descriptions of your experience.
Sorry I've been out of touch lately
love and peace
Birgit and Roger
Sandie May Angel a.k.a. Sandie Angel :o)
Regis
Ron
"My body is shaped by overlapping moments
Of light and dark:
By the substance of being
Grown into the stuff of becoming
It celebrates the dawn
While enveloping the dusk" don't be surprised if I
start leaning on you to let me quote in part re a piece
about Dorothea Lange and photography that I am struggling
with. Black and white, light and shadow, so many thoughts,
so little time.
Thank you for posting this, robert jude. Very stimulating. 'Pea' <3
You are the body poetic, and I am grateful to gaze upon your beauty in form and verse; well done!
(((HUGS))) and love, Karla.
Love & Light,
Joseph
Well done!!
Love Tinka
The poetic words...... and comments below say it all
You flow with the synchronicity of the Universe, oblivious to the rip tides, and consummate in your approach and execution...
Peter
Felix
TRASK
Take care,
Sherry
Susan
eT
Love,From This Dove