Treasures of darkness

Treasures of darkness

brimming in my morphing soul - 

miming sunbeams now.

Author's Note

Phrase "treasures of darkness" taken from the famous writings of Oswald Chambers.

Captcha = recrate....mmmm.....can one recrate a soul? :)

Reviews

[Einstein Noodle]

kind of dark for a senryu ... but i see a deeper truth hidden .. when darkness is the light we guide or lives by it is indeed and very deep darkness .... as a soul "morphs" more and more into it the changes become not treasures but dangers and horrors ... the miming of sunbeams (or truth) in the end has placed your speaker as a minion of the darkness ... ;{
great subject matter sir! inspiring in a lot of ways ... there are after-all very real treasures in darkness aren't there!? like the stars :) diamonds in the rough, crystals in the deepest caves ;))))
E.

[SleeplessVolcano]

Thank you for your delightful review.....I'm merely scratching at the surface with this one.....darkness, of course, means different things to different people. In the classic poem of St John of the Cross, "Dark night of the soul", the "darkness" may not necessarily represent specific sin, but rather one's sinfulness. We need to conquer the dark night of the soul before we can enter the dark night of the spirit. So, my angle in this poem actually refers to the "positive" side, so to speak, of "dark" experiences. Someone, for example, losing his or her health, may refer to that "condition" as a period of "darkness" without it necessarily being their own fault. Learning through that (neutral) - or any ("bad") - darkness, however, is a habit worth cultivating....

[Einstein Noodle]

yes! some very real treasures can be found ...trials of our faith bring an increase in our trust in God and in our comfort and assurance in spite of how things seem .. i couldn't agree more ... love and joy brother!
E.