Poems by Themis

New Radiance

...And look, see all:

The violet lights that play

Upon the hills of yesterday;

And today's pink-white dawn,

Opening of all roses.

But ever onward stream

the golden lights of a future day:

shafts of power piercing to the earth's core,

vertical descent of divinity

deep, far and deep, into earth's core:

shells of the sun exploding

over the nights of earth,

new radiance blasting dead clay.

Broken matter bespatters the stars,

The nights in fury arise,

becloud the skies.

Only the hidden sun-power's pressure,

only earth's humble heart of gathering gravitation,

silently, invisibly save.

All lies quiet at last.

The black blind ponies of night's deep-dug mines

stir and neigh to the horses of the sun...

Light enters quietly the beating heart of the dark,

liberating light, primeval — pristine purification

moving in subterranean waters;

The ignorant crust

of the god-seed cracks.

Upon the beauty of the shining lakes of peace

is born the Red Lotus.

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