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Open Poetry #46

The Number

noman
Junior Member

since 2009-12-26

Posts 18

0 posted 2010-03-09 12:31 PM

Act 1
Voice:
This was a gift, with its gross relation,
having a frontplate and a name clearly
written on it:
Four decades and the unit.

Elder:
They stood before us singing,
as One says out of the mouths of babes.
They knew their instruments,
not tools or device. And furthermore
came loudness.

Creature:
Stand before the cornered thing.
and on its right the ThingComeForth.
On this side is perfection,
on that side flaw.
Stand and sing.

Eyes:
We are a hundred on each One,
and looking in all directions at once,
everywhere, and winged,
we sing.

Act 2
Song:
This is the song,
The messenger returned,
in medias res,
stating to all
the sound of water.

Eyes:
One followed,
and then another,
and another.
The voice becomes noise.

Voice:
No One saw you,
nor did any wonder what you did.
Nor were you measured kindly,
nor given authority to speak.
Who will regard this?
Who says your name?
We have no mouth.

Act 3
Creature:
We four between them and One
witnessed the hand rising.
We saw and state plainly,
He blessed the things that are no more.
And with the other hand
drew a blade.

Eyes:
From the messenger.

Voice:
The million mote rising
in the enclosure called day
the seeing by cloud, I sing
What comes your way.

Elder:
And from the messenger
a new instrument.

Act 4
Creature:
We are four,
cornered, and in
our mouths
blood.
We sing also,
this: Confusion is a nation
so called forth by
the last sum.

Voice:
Today is a good day.
There is none good but One.
Today is the day One made.

Elder:
All good things come from the One.
Love the One.

Song:
A third and a third and a third
are One.
Blessed are those who are One.

Eyes:
Behold, the One with many
thousands: One.

Epilogue:
What is seen is not seen.
What is won is not One.
But today,
the number is
fourteen.

Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

1 posted 2010-03-10 05:51 PM

quote:
Blessed are those who are One.

Mysterious sounds, but the above statement sounds good in my ears.

Love,
Margherita

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