VISION II

A serrate cry slashed the clear,
calmly clinquant Night,
dispelling the holy hush of the
Mystic's celestial contemplation. 
Shore birds littered the
silvered waterline as shorn white 
flamelets, the Moon's
fulsome nacreous blaze their 
anguished shrieks rent.

Entranced, she gazed upon pearl
dust merging with the
dreaming ocean, stirring the 
waters, beckoning spuming swells
to thirsting shores - a lucent
dance of waves and mirrored ivory
fire in Earth's briny votive,
as its deepest currents embraced
the silver-gold sands.

Time and Nature wrought a vision
of cosmic will upon Life's
realm, from shattered flames, air
and sea rendered a sublime 
sculpture, a feast of the Elements,
that man may savour the
elation of prayerful adoration upon
his journey through this
fount of felicity and forlornness.

The luminous silence emanated an
inviolable truth, bursting forth
as a tidal wave from the depths of
the aeons. "Divinity dwells
within all Creation and speaks its
mysteries to each one who 
would listen with the soul. Its beauty
shines in the shattered and the
whole, indeed, in every broken flame."

© 2015 Lily's Verse

Lilium Candidum

Image: IPHIGENIA

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Artist: Herbert Gustave Schmalz