A River of Light
A River of Light
I listened to a river of light this morning
racing away from the Sun
photons laughing and splashing in the coruscation
cresting into waves
subsuming themselves
in the sheer joy of musical excitation,
the exquisite quivering that comprises every fibre
of our infinite universe
the transubstantiation
the transmogrification of music incarnate
sparks of frantic delight
waves of creation
driven on Vayu’s blessed breath
Amaterasu streaking out on Sol’s golden chariot
soaring across the darkness
sounding out into the silence.
Ra’s children — angels tagging the Cosmos
splashing the eternal void
with golden light
angering Hades
glowering in dead silence as they pass
surfing golden rays of the sun into infinity.
And beyond.
~
Vancouver
Sunday, July 12, 2020
Dedicated to Avan Yu and Ann Southam
No. 11 from Wild Flowers
About this poem
It is part of a series of poems I wrote during the first days of the COVID pandemic shutdown. The collection is called Wild Flowers.
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Written on July 12, 2020
Submitted by SeanT on November 27, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 857 |
Words | 144 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 8, 8, 8, 4 |
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