The Winds of Wonder

This earthly life shall be …

Speedy rivers of light run with unfading light,

On their banks cities thriving in deals of time

To flourish in details of haste and quiet,

Silence and sound crowding in downtowns,

In marts for the commerce of created things;

Oceans pour themselves into shoreless oceans,

Bearing voyages of unnamed adventurers;

Arrives the being of bliss trailing in velvet robes;

The reed of rapture scattering songs of love

In a floating air of innumerable hum

Alights he with his awe-inspiring consort,

In becoming multitudinously vast

The Divine into the utter Divine.

“Nature shall live to manifest secret God,

The Spirit shall take up the human play,

This earthly life become the life divine.”

5 January 2026