Spiritual Poetry

NOTE: These are my rambling thoughts on spiritual poetry.

Spiritual Poetry

Spiritual poetry is the essence of the soul. It is the written record of the seeker’s search for truth. It is the joy of God’s love reflected through the human mind. It is the record of the seeker’s transformation into lover. It is the lover’s song written in the language of matter. It is the soul desire inscribed on the mirror of the human soul.

Spiritual poetry is the sacred scriptures of humanity. It is the fragrance of the rose inhaled by the lover’s spirit. It is the matter’s poison ingested and transformed into the spirit’s nutrition. It is the over coming of doubt and the mystic dancing in the market place. It is the wind in an olive tree the sun rising above a snow capped peak.

Spiritual poetry is the mystic’s testimony to humanity. It is the soul seeking the valleys of faith. The mystic travels through seven valleys to reach fulfillment. The first valley is search where the mystic seeks the beloved. This is the beginning the search begins the mystic’s quest. From the valley of search the mystic goes into the valley of love.

Spiritual poetry is the mystics patience and the mystics pain. It is the mystics expression of search, the lover’s expression of love. Spiritual poetry becomes mystic poetry as the seeker, the mystic and the lover travels the valleys. From valley to valley the journey moves through valleys and across mountains. The traveler moves, the wonder roams, the lover, the mystic and the seeker always search for that which is just beyond. A trace is found and a poem is written. Then the lover moves on, the Beloved is always somewhere and the lover finds a trice writes a poem and moves on.

Matter, the body holds the essence on the material plane. Something happens during the seeker’s life and she (or he) realizes there is more. Realizes that matter and money and material objects do not hold the key to true life. The search begins, the soul its wings covered with the mud of matter tries to ascend, but is pulled back. Still the attempt is made and then the soul begins looking for a way to clean its wings. Prayer, meditation and the sacred scriptures. The journey never ends the seeker becomes the lover the lover becomes the mystic. Life moves to the curtain of death (or what is called death because the soul is eternal).

The lover catches sight of the Beloved and writes a poem. The lover travels through the valleys writing the journey in the ink of transformation. The Beloved is closer the lover then the lover’s own pulse, but the lover is as far away from the Beloved as the universe’s receding rim. Still the lover, the seek the mystic continues. Sometime, in a moment of forgetfulness, a stranger may take the place of the Beloved. At those times difficulties become obvious or something happens to get the seeker, the beloved, the mystic back on the journey.

Spiritual poetry is the sacred scriptures. It is verse from the sacred scriptures of humanity. All the sacred scriptures speak to the mystic on her journey (the soul is referred to as female in many traditions). The sacred scriptures speak to the seeker, the mystic and the lover. All the sacred scriptures speak to the mystic, at different times in the journey different scriptures speak to the mystic seeker. The mystic writes a poem based on the sacred scriptures, the mystic writes and moves on. Sometimes the mystic poet writes in the sand, sometime in the red ink of strife and sometimes using a computer program to compose. How the soul of the seeker lover, the mystic lover writes in the next world in the world of the spirit is unknown to those of us this side of the veil, but we can guess or imagine.

In the next world does the lover write in shades of light? What is the ink used on the spiritual plain? On the plain of matter we write and rewrite attempting to get the line or the verse or the stanza just right, perfect. In the next world does the mystic lover seeker poet rewrite?