Rapt Form

Fire upon the night the way flashing

Cove within Earth the seed receiving

South into North of us.

 

Eagle upon mountain and the light ascending

The Bowl of the daily dark descending

Stars beyond the shores of us.

 

The center stays and the pattern fixes

The center moves and the diagram mixes

For many and more of us.

 

The Eye shines as the east is shining

The Bowl gathers darkness as shade is spreading

The Obelisk stabs down the ray.

 

The Pentagram weaves its tent overheading

The stars and the Polestar turning and twining

Until the rotating of day.

 

O day and O night of time

(The weft upon the warp of rhyme)

I backward step to the abyss

Where Form ends and Nothing is -

Where Nothing ends and All-Thing is.

Updated: 26.Jun.96