Saturday 3 January 2015

Appearances Deceiving – poem



What seems lost
is often found
but playing hide and seek

What seems wrong
is often right
because our knowledge is incomplete

What seems hard
is not always harsh
but a teaching of what not to repeat

What seems a battle
is actually a ballet
if you could sit in the choreographer’s seat

There’s a higher harmony
at work here
sounding subtly from
a celestial sphere

Cracking pitchy encrustations
that block and ban
the free flow of light
according to the original plan

Spirit is perpetually repelled
until it finds propulsion
from a throbbing beaming cascade
emitting from ultra-violet attraction

Once sucked in by this force
of seen and unseen revealing
wonder and joy flood and show

how appearances can be deceiving

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(slipping this in to break the hiatus spell… written aboard a flight… is anything what it seems?)