New poem: "The Happy Poet"

 The Happy Poet

 

“I am, and life is merely something that I do,”

said the Happy Poet, on the occasion of his lover’s

mother death, revealing the deepest mystery

of his life, the journey to his true self; —

 

Not in entire forgetfulness did he come from God,

who is our Home, but with the divine imperative

to be whole and complete; and from life to life,

he returned to grow into his true self; —

 

An “I” of God, whole and complete unto himself,

as choreographed by the divine imperative of the way

of what is to come; and the Happy Poet can now sit

on his front deck and sip on his glass of sherry,

because he is what he longed to be.

 

Composed in Georgian Bay,

Tuesday, August 22, 2023