My Holy

looking for what is sacred

The christian cup of tea - handed asking 

Asking the stiff white collared guru

asking the collar - 'So what is Holy?'

the claptrap of church speak delivered - squwark

Flapping the orbit of praise and acknowledgement

Defining God as a celestial numb nuts 

Ok Yeah - But what is Holy?

Can you wrestle Rilke's angel

emerging with a crippled reverence

Lust after Michaelangelo's cosmic erato 

Daring to touch beauty with a pink finger

Will the knife newly realized at the throat

Confirm the exile and the instinct Holy

Hidden by the cave - frightened of the imagined Holy

That echo whisper darking the volcano and the wind

Thrown down petrified in a courtyard

While the comforter quickens the Lapiz Lazuli womb

At the extremis of pain the memory rebels 

Shouting at the closing sky 'Lemi Lemi Sabacthani

OK -Yeah but what is Holy?

Is all this 'Holy' or what ?

The spring buds confident and green 

A BB pencil leaves its dust

An evening so transformed - 'Holy?'

Ink ground, brush wiped, movements

The lines and washes and omissions

The Shaman dances 'Holy' on rice paper

Reviews

[magenta24uk]

what a dazzling display of your talent. It made my head spin and filled me with questions. Loved it.

[K.N. Lorenzen]

This is an utterly complex, intriguing and refreshing poem. To me, it seems to touch on the interrelation between culture and religion, the, throughout time, predominant conventions of sanctity, aesthetics and morals. The renaissance virtues of Michelangelo, fondled by the damp,pink hand of modernity, all the while the domain of the supreme-court of sanctity, crumbles and disintergrates. I might be way off the point, but these were my initial impressions and thoughts. Thank you for sharing!

K.

[writing mojo]

Your ace sectional view of the descent of add vented in to the sacred is on point and put so well that I question such reflected tenement in my self...excellent piece

[Michael Oliver]

many thanks for your reviews but still cant quite manage your music - expletive! Shall follow your submissions with eagerness. Michael