Saturday, May 20, 2023

Poem: “Ascension” by: Denise Levertov

 Stretch Himself, as if again 

through downpress of dust 

upward, soul giving way 

to thread of white, that reaches 

for daylight, to open as green 

leaf that is … 

Can Ascension 

not have been 

arduous, almost, 

as the return 

from Sheol, and 

back from the tomb 

into breath? 

Matter reanimate 

now must relinquish 

itself, its 

human cells, 

molecules, five 

senses, linear 

vision endured 

as Man – 

the sole 

all-encompassing gaze 

resumed now, 

Eye of Eternity, 

Relinquished, earth’s 

broken Eden. 

Expulsion, 

liberation, 

last self-enjoined task 

of Incarnation. 

He again 

Fathering Himself. 

Seed-case splitting. 

He again 

Mothering His birth: 

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