III Ariel in Excelsus

      Render the promised ephemeral sapphires
      Your unconquerable soliloquies inscribe,
      Daring synced infinities upon my lone heart.
      Take the newborn lips of this invisible sea
5     And invent spiral bloods' elemental ecstasy,
      Inspiring light uplifted from scarlet fires
      And scripting momentary eternities that shift
      In cool translations of our coral heavens,
      To remember my own perilous divinities.
10    And you, radiant spirit of dauntless repose!
      O' ebullient child of never ending days,
      Consume our sculpted tide; linger golden soul
      Asleep in vagrant vigours of ignited glories.
      Lend grace to all these unabating reveries
15    Spooling causeless rose to our blushing resumes,
      The ornamental roundings of choiring respire,
      Quiescent bolts blessed in alluvial majesties
      Striking the spindrift paradise that moors
      Our lawless hearts among the untamed lily.
20    A beheld presence enthralled in azured aspiring
      Trembles in the glow of your miraculous temerities,
      Revealing an ennobled tear from the lit virtue
      Of your fair jewels with purest spiritual rains.
      To nurture so sweetly all my afferent rosaries
25    In the angels of your contemplative breath,
      With rosen overtures of unreclaimed grace
      That ascend beyond a star's rising exigence
      To invisible revelations conspired of time,
      You imbue sublime splendor in my undying
30    Eye, with a love supremely cherished, until...
      Daniel B. Dermond

 

From the collection "Ghosts and Princes"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

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