A Poem for Muse

The year we discovered the truth about
rain: when mood and nature condensed senses
into a vegetative symbiosis
of primordial urges, love's sweetest prout

our own secret coding of a summer
unfettered, free falling through flawless clouds,
a sun drenched meadow, honeysuckle'd roses
twined into Guanyin's dainty crown. You were

Meru's peak, the last pyatthat I was meant
to scale before Nirvana swung open
the doors to my awakened heart: ming-jian
transformed, the road from which I at last wente.

Ken e Bujold

©2022

Author's Note

A little help for some of the language: Guanyin is the Chinese goddess of mercy and love. Meru is a mythical Buddhist mountain. Pyatthat are the tiered roofs on a Chinese pagoda.
Ming-jian is Chinese mythology of earth bound. Wente is an old germanic word referring to a crossroads.

Reviews

[Just Kim]

This is quite wonderful, I do like the author's note, it helped me with the language of this write,
this is intriguing and wonderfully written.

[Ken e Bujold]

thank you very much Kim. glad you enjoyed

[W. Barrett Munn]

An amazing work, Ken. It was very much like reading some of Pound's cantos. The only word that threw me off is prout - I could find no definition for it. Meru, I discovered, is a real mountain deemed unclimbable in certain routes. Thanks for showing us how it should be done.
Winston

[Ken e Bujold]

haha, glad you enjoyed the read W. I am an obsessive collector of words. Prout is one of those oddities which would be difficult to find indeed. It is new millennial slang for sweet-smelling flatulence. Which gives the transition to the next verse its own fragrance if you will. My little in joke
Ken e

[W. Barrett Munn]

Oddly, I did find that definition but couldn't believe that's what you meant. My bad.
W.

[Ken e Bujold]

haha. if you read carefully and think about it...in love's initial bloom everything including flatulence is the sweetest rose

[W. Barrett Munn]

True enough. Who wuddda thought.

[Lisasview]

Oh gosh Ken, what a wonderful poem of yours to stumble upon right after sending you a separate message regarding your comments on another poets work.
I am delighted that you explained the language you used as it made your poem all the more interesting.
I just love the word wente...
Such an exciting mixture of Chinese words...and ending with a germanic word...
I particularly loved the last 4 lines... so full of love..
Interesting for a poem...
You might like my poem Innocence... full of metaphors...all unplanned...just came out of me.
Lisa, now in Spain