Saturday, January 23, 2021

Poem for the week: "Visions of a Larger Reality"

 

Visions of a Larger Reality

 Who are we, poets and writers

of a larger reality? Who are we, who

span the ages with thoughts no-one

dares to express? Who risk the cruelties

of life with every word we write? But

we write despite our fears. Why does

the world fear our visions of a larger

reality? We had Ursula K. Le Guin,

SF writer and non-believer; but where

is she now? Where did she go, this

student of the Tao whose fearless vision

of a larger reality made the two into

one in The Left Hand of Darkness that

mirrored society’s LGBTQ fears? Did

Le Guin sink into oblivion, as she feared

when still living? Then how could she

visit her beloved son in the larger reality

of his dreams? And was she trailing clouds

of glory, too? Did the visionary poet’s

God, “who is our home,” reclaim

the revenant’s soul?

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