Blue Flower

The Blue Flower was a movement of German romantic poetry, coined by the eighteenth century German poet Novalis. It's a symbolic representation of the poet's aspiration toward the infinite.

Formless words...broadcast scribbling space--their

diagram of poetic motion washes over you--

formed on impact.

Darkroom's glow in broad daylight--your fully

developed picture...deepest blue of two worlds

in one, betwixt vibration.

Hue of the canonized, twanging entire a cloudless

sky...enriched tenfold in mimicry of you.

If only stained glass and silk would wed, search

light's spectrum... distill the most subtle gradation

of blue--then might you see a just replica?

Visionary's shield, where earthen wend unveils the

abysmal...that eyes remain upon you--till one is

ferried, and vision seen through.

Apogee of seventh sea...epicenter of dancing

Nine Muses, whose round keeps the Blue Flower

earthbound.

Blue Flower of the poet's pilgrimage, whose

synesthesia electrifies.

Blue Flower...a nebula pinned to earth, the name

of spring born of you.

The golden section of angels fly their flawless form

to you...that high art may pray to high art.

...Blue Flower, commended spirit rife with grace...

whose ceaseless hour at hand holds beauty alone.

Mind, quill to tongue riven--if ever...ever is now--

Blue Flower...ever is now!

The words of this poet have begun fasting...not to

eat of what they cannot sacrifice...their Blue Flower.

Konstantinos Mark