Thursday, 25 May 2023

#1241 - two monastery poems - Moldovița and the femininity of angels

 




1241

26.v.23

4.147

Moldovița

the yellow and blue

 

scenes from the life

and

so much beheading

(noble way, sainted faces show

martyr’s fast track to heaven)

 

and there are wings of fire

scrolls to hold

 

it’s hard to remember who everyone was

 

but we get the general idea

gold just for haloes   

 

the miracles of healing

true vine

 

water on a fish

tread devil down

 

so much blood!

the word is blade as well

 

sword through

run out of cheeks to turn

 

just saintly for so long

 

it’s kingdom after kingdom

monks of the brush survive

 

and though they take up printing

look long enough here

you’ll be illiterate

 

a woodpecker patient with a cross at the top

taps timber out of the day

 

 





 

 

 

 

considering the femininity of angels

at Sucevița

for godsbother

 

legions thereof

much trumpeted, may harp

 

how they are aloft to deck the halls, hover

 

it’s as during the war, an auxiliary corps

 

up and down the ladder

leading all the best along

and pop you into heaven snug

 

time must have begun before them

 

angels drop down for a visit

give us the nod and the goss

 

sometimes they draw close, confer

with stars to catch

 

they’re heavenly

and perch as birds have learned

 

no levity, nor sneer with them

angels are never sarcastic

 

but humble!

it’s what forever does

 

when they weep it’s creepy

exquisite in sadness yet

 

folded in feather and robe

they look good in a gossamer way

 

keep up their amazement

the most natural thing in the world

 

you get them fleeting in the mirror

 

who knows?

 

they are sincere

 

even fallen they are of forever

 

(hell hurts but it’s much more fun)

 

sweet, compliant to a greater will

 

up, down and on the way

an angel will never complain

 

but bustle about most meaning

 

their wonders never done

 

delighted with the chanting

angels might break into song

 

we are their only entertainment

there’s not a hint of a smile























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