Added: Aug 20, 2008
From: brychar66
Duration: 7:27
I thank God (who else is there to thank?) for love beyond all human measure. Incarnation is not the grosser reality we call the Real. The Christ, as our beloved William Blake fully realised, is spiritual truth. And the Christ nature descends upon all of us, God's sons and daughters, and transfigures us into its own semblance. Despite this and unbelievable as it seems, we remain men and women subject to the flesh until our dying day. From time to time we are reprieved (but this is not to see the matter straight since the body too is part of God) and allowed brief glimpses of the deeper reality of existence.A Night & A Day: Two VisitationsAmid the amorphous cityscapegently descending came the glittering angelbringing peace. The cityscape was inscape, the angel not a form of flesh and bloodbut archetype, divinity, a non corporeal presenceas truly real as the people in the street. I dare to say more real.I walked with him, the rain still fallingin the mourning garden,earth's perfumes tangy in the pattering showerthe welling moisture.Where that dull sun's unmoving which measures herethe cycle of our lives from year to yearthough parted we walk always hand in handthrough lusher pastures of that other landyour soul and mine. Mouth to mouth beyondrestrictions of this dying flesh and fonder farthan any human coupling we embraceeach others pure totality and traceto its immortal source the earthly lovethat bound us two unknowing; while above -though space and time are meaningless - we seefrom its bright zenith shining eternally,we feel like sun upon our skin the heatof that perpetual Rhythm in which we beat.Again he came in the sleepy afternoonto rouse me from sleep - sleep of the sensesand the soul sealed by the sensesin its own deep tomb - taking the formof that beloved boy who wakened mewhen I was still a boy like himto knowledge of the truer world within.Placing his face beside my own and cheek to cheekechoing the actual physical event -incarnation, transformation of the flesh -he shared with me the vision. And I knewthe Lord was risen and the Spirit here.
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Tags: christ day english experience night poetry spiritual spoken truth two visionary visitations word
Rating: 5.00 (8 ratings) Views: 114 Comments: 21
sfkcbf Says:
Aug 20, 2008 - Every time that I read one of your poems, it gives me pause, alters my mood, inspires many thoughts, brings back memories, transforms my soul...for which I am very thankful.
brychar66 Says:
Aug 20, 2008 - sweet shug, your praise is immoderate, but welcome! thank you for your encouragement. I hadn't noticed the anniversary. love Chas.
brychar66 Says:
Aug 20, 2008 - It brings me great pleasure Stephen to know of your response to my verse. Bless you.
DavidRandallCurtis Says:
Aug 20, 2008 - Impressive poem... you wrote it in ONE day?
brychar66 Says:
Aug 20, 2008 - Thanks David. Certainly did! Which is why I said I was not too sure about it - only time will tell.
citizenX9328g Says:
Aug 20, 2008 - It is beautiful and strongly prophetic imho :-)I don't know what your view on the subject are,but for one example,I saw a video here called "The Lilith Redemption" stating that Lilith will return - soon!Also,I and many others I have been conversing with can "feel" something is coming...
citizenX9328g Says:
Aug 20, 2008 - You see,the thing about Prophecy is that your personal spin might be different to someone else's interpretation - even though it's your vision...I think this is amazing,and it resonates for me :-)
brychar66 Says:
Aug 20, 2008 - Thank you, glad you found something there to speak to you.
xasjodeau Says:
Aug 21, 2008 - I just recently discovered youtube and even more recently discovered you and your heart-touching poems. The first one I found concerned Hadrian and Antinous, one of the most beautiful love stories in all of history. Your poem not only did their story justice, but your lush, gorgeous reading of it made it as real and immediate as if it were happening today, which, in a sense, I suppose it is. Thank you so much for everything.
brychar66 Says:
Aug 21, 2008 - Many thanks for your appreciation, I treasure it.
Amiduffer Says:
Aug 22, 2008 - Hmm. Using Socrates' three levels of love, It would seem to reside (pun intended) or the level of Eros. Regarding your poem, wouldn't you agree that some people obtain some form of immortality that goes beyond simple flesh and blood? Socrates as an example?
msbunburyist Says:
Aug 24, 2008 - This verse was wonderfully encouraging: I love it when people acknowledge God-as-lover just as much as God in any other form. How else could He be God? If He has no interest in that relationship with us as well?Regarding your initial comments, I think that C.S. Lewis puts those feelings best in "Till We Have Faces" - Psyche's explanation to Orual of why she is not distressed at death.
brychar66 Says:
Aug 24, 2008 - Thank you Madeline, I find your remarks too wonderfully encouraging.
brychar66 Says:
Aug 24, 2008 - Well yes, if you mean historical immortality - but our idea of immortality is usually restricted to a few thousand years! That there is some part of us that is immortal (the 'soul' - see Madeline's Psyche above) I have no doubt. But the natural history of the soul is beyond my comprehension.
samuelgodfreygeorge Says:
Aug 24, 2008 - The Lord has indeed equipped the dreamer to convey his dreams ably. May you continue to voice eternal truth.
algabal Says:
Aug 24, 2008 - Charles, this is exquisite in sentiment and sound: I have come to expect no less! I think on the majority of these things we do agree.Because of our broad agreement, I won't try to proselytize my negative views about the flesh and the world, but will only share this simple passage from Luke: "For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit."
brychar66 Says:
Aug 25, 2008 - Dear Dominic,you will recognise that this poem is in part a response to the matters we discussed recently, however briefly; they struck a chord. I have the greatest sympathy with your views.
brychar66 Says:
Aug 25, 2008 - Thank you Sam. I think that coming generations will discover (the study of the mind being still in its earliest infancy despite the psychologists' best efforts) the crucial importance of the dream.
written12 Says:
Aug 25, 2008 - Well, Charles, what can we do for the "soul sealed by the senses in its own deep tomb"? I guess we can't will visions and epiphanies, but we can train the mind, invite the spirit and rinse away the banalities of the world by remaining mindful of what is real. The end of the poem is very moving. And it should be said that experiences such as these, while profound for the individual, don't render one dead to the world. They actually increase compassion and love for others.
brychar66 Says:
Aug 26, 2008 - Many thanks for that endorsement. I had feared the poem might be obscure, but I see from your comments, and those below, this is not the case. Which fact owes as much to the acuity of my listeners and readers as to my own skill. I am really most profoundly heartened that such spiritual matters as these are of interest to others.
megansspark Says:
Aug 20, 2008 - Awe inspiring beauty, yet so delicate. 'earth's perfumes tangy in the pattering shower'Across the ocean its a rainy morning and I listen to this, share the experience, and find myself in tears. Charles I notice you have had your one year 'youtube anniversary'; darling man, how can we all thank you enough for sharing your time and talents?