Submitted to Jingle’s Poetry Potluck. The theme this week is dreams and visions. Check out the many poets at http://jinglepoetry.blogspot.com/
…and to One Shot Wednesday at http://oneshotpoetry.blogspot.com/
Rediscovery
Emerging from this fog
(induced by absinthe or perhaps unknowing?)
I fly in my balloon, the landing rough
in rockiest terrain.
Quixote I am not but savor
tastes of honey from the gentle smoothness
of earth’s ivory skin.
I deconstruct the faith
that, as a child gave cause for desperation,
pursue Elijah’s chariot, with fiery wings
to worlds oblivious of tragedy,
return like Sandalphon or Phoenix
brilliant in life’s kaleidoscopic dance
of raging color.
Withhold your judgment now, dear friend.
The day may come when, too, you will embrace
my vision, and welcome in the Logos.
Note: This poem was written using the prompt I posted on Monday. You may want to check it out. The random selection of words contributes a bit to the obscurity. I confess to adding words to this one for the sake of some cohesiveness. In the bible, the prophet Elijah was taken into heaven in a fiery chariot. It is said that he has returned to earth as the Archangel Sandalphon who is the overseer of the below direction (the earth). Logos is Greek for Word and is used in this context to refer to Jesus as the Word of God as you will read in the first chapter of the Gospel of John. Eventually I will, no doubt, revise this poem and lose of few of the arbitrary words. Should you decide to try this prompt, you would make me happy if you left a link in comments.
Victoria C. Slotto, Author 