“Call me to lie down in fragrance.” D. Margoshes ~ Season of Lilac (epigraph for dVerse’s Poetics: Beginning at the End)
if there were no skies
to darken in hues of blue
to contain green scents
what would I see
but infinity’s reach
my heart torn
lungs bursting
in timeless space
racing stars
hastening at your call
arriving in final destination
to find that after all
the unmoored spinning
the vain rectifications
of physics and philosophy
that vast expanse
I was traveling through
was you
Acts 17:28
‘In him we live and move and have our being’
This Jolly Beggar 
I like the way you conflate the universal with the divine here, Dora!
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Thank you kindly, Ingrid!
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This seems to me to be in the tradition of poems that work as love poems and as hynms to the divine. The imagery is great, and I like what you did with the prompt.
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It is a love poem and hymn: so glad you saw that. Thank you, Sarah!
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I enjoyed the sense of weightlessness in this poem, Dora, especially in the lines
‘in timeless space
racing stars
hastening at your call’
and
‘the unmoored spinning’.
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Thank you so much, Kim. I wanted to use that weightlessness, that out of control spinning, as an analogy for life itself.
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The ending is beautiful. Such a good love poem.
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Kind words, thank you so much, Jane!
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I love this Dora….that idea that “you” were the constant in my life’s journey. I enjoyed this very much.
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So glad you enjoyed it, Lillian. Thanks for reading. 🙂
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Maybe it’s because the mechanism and vastness of the universe is as incomprehensible as the chemistry of a pair of human minds.
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I like that perspective too.
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I am literally swooning right now 😀 Especially love; “to find that after all the unmoored spinning the vain rectifications of physics and philosophy that vast expanse I was traveling through was you.” 💝💝
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Your encouraging response means a lot, Sanaa. Thank you
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This is a beautiful reflection of Paul’s words in Ephesians 4: He who descended is the very one who ascended higher than all the heaves, in order to fill the whole universe. God fills the entire universe and we abide in Him and He in us. There is nothing that is in the God who fills all things, whether near or far.
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Yes, though the distinction between the self-existent Creator and his contingent creation remains, he has made his divine life accessible by faith in His incarnate Son. This makes Paul break out in rapturous praise in his epistles as in Ephesians! Thank you so much for reading and commenting. 🙂
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I see that I should have re-read my response more closely as I left out a very important word…There is nothing that is NOT in the God who fills all things, whether near or far.
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As Ephesians 4:4-6 (ESV) says — “There is one body and one Spirit–just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call– one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.” Hallelujah!
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Just wanted to say that I have missed your posts ~Paul
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Appreciate that so much, Paul. I’m taking a brief hiatus and will be back to post again soon, God willing. 🙏🌷
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