Saturday, November 12, 2005

The Cross

I stood between the sun and moon
in a dream, in a room.

A pock marked silver sphere,
the moon by my left shoulder hovered near.

At my right,
the sun blazed bright, only an arms length away.

Within the walls of my dream
I stood between these two extremes
and neither sun nor moon held sway.

Reaching out my sinister side,
I touched the moon
and felt my fingers slide
across her cool and pale face.

Then my right hand I stretched through space
and submerged in licking flames
of hydrogen and stellar gas.

Arms crucial, I spanned the gulf
between day and night -

a conduit through which did pass
the secrets of darkness, the mysteries of light.



An old one (6 years or so). Not based on an actual dream - more of an idea, really. The central image, as the symbols of sun and moon employed to create it, is rather obvious, perhaps. I prefer to think it is archetypal. This piece, as I recall, flowed from pen to paper with nary a stutter. One notable exception being the use of the word crucial - one or two other words, and a certain amount of research preceded the appearance of this word in the final draft.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Very cool and it does feel very dreamlike even though from a waking thought. The image of connecting sun and moon by your stretching arms/hands was very powerful.

The Poet said...

Hello.
Visiting from The Poetry Pantry.

Awesome imagery!
Nicely penned.
Thanks for sharing.

Imaginary Dreams

Susie Clevenger said...

Strong images...the mixture of darkness and light...nice piece

Anonymous said...

"a conduit through which did pass
the secrets of darkness, the mysteries of light." -> and then you learn the secrets of life

Richard Cody said...

Thanks for reading everybody!