Exceptional An alchemy of the spirit Alchemy by estory

This magic life Balanced on the head of a pin As it comes to an end   Threads the eyes of needles From caravans of camels To the fingerprints of angels   Sparkling  Like snow in the treetops On a winter's morning   When the sunlight spins Ivory, copper, jade, onyx, gold   Out of what we used to be. Author Notes I would say this poem is in a little more opened up, free verse style, somewhat in the vein of Denise Levertov, maybe. It is a poem of passage, from this world to the next, from this life to the life to come. I wanted to make that next life seem bright and colorful, so I picked these bright, metallic images spun out of sunlight to symbolize the released soul. The allusions to the camels going through the eyes of needles is from a lesson of Jesus in the gospels when he speaks about the difficulty of getting into heaven. But of course in the end he says with God, anything is possible, so I wanted to capture that hope we can have to turn death into a passageway. Well, this is it for a bit in poetry, I will now post a couple of short stories from my new Dreams collection. estory

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