THE
MAGICALLY SUSPENDED
TIMELESS MOMENT OF THE SENSUOUS SOUL
or when a stone opens
where god is dead—abra
(cadaver missing) —liminal zone
as if laughter (and then light)
in time’s omniscient sense
holds all & in suspense supposes
all that is in this and those
waits still in baited breath
primed for miracles. In caves
external eternal things search
the root of no known speech
whose reach in breach and turn
fulfills a mythic dialect—God’s shadow
& god strung up and stung—you &I
too, being not only good & young
await the great invisible horse & dawn
who pronounce the abracadabra of time
reviving energies of an all eternal
minute serpent in oval stone
whose light in eons
and in years
holds emptiness
in words and worlds and ones
together.
©2016 DayBreak stephanie pope mythopoetry.com
notes
1. Abraxas alchemy woodcut on line courtesy of http://dashinvaine.deviantart.com/art/Alchemy-woodcut-Abraxas-366995037
where god is dead—abra
(cadaver missing) —liminal zone
as if laughter (and then light)
in time’s omniscient sense
holds all & in suspense supposes
all that is in this and those
waits still in baited breath
primed for miracles. In caves
external eternal things search
the root of no known speech
whose reach in breach and turn
fulfills a mythic dialect—God’s shadow
& god strung up and stung—you &I
too, being not only good & young
await the great invisible horse & dawn
who pronounce the abracadabra of time
reviving energies of an all eternal
minute serpent in oval stone
whose light in eons
and in years
holds emptiness
in words and worlds and ones
together.
©2016 DayBreak stephanie pope mythopoetry.com
notes
1. Abraxas alchemy woodcut on line courtesy of http://dashinvaine.deviantart.com/art/Alchemy-woodcut-Abraxas-366995037
2. Abraxas, in Greek mythology, is one of the horses of the sun. For a listing of hippo anthanatoi, Abraxas and other immortal horses of the gods, see http://www.theoi.com/Ther/Hippoi.html
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