This is rich! Those aphorisms are treasures--like gems in a jewelry box, and I must revisit them daily, take them to heart, internalize them.
I love your insight:
poetry might be unabashedly addressed to the Divine as well as sensual, at once.
You remind me of an art exhibit I saw in college many years ago, Reuben Nakian's line drawings of Leda and the Swan - (rape!) - a curator had posted the typed placard explaining that the artist saw "the sacred in the profane" - and while I forget 90% of what I see, hear, and read, that one stayed with me. Online, I cannot find a good copy of it. For $545, you can buy a print... such a simple line drawing, yet it conveys so much.
If you care to take a closer look, you can zoom in on it here: https://www.quintessentialthings.com/product/reuben-original-etching/
Ok, that's enough of the sensual and the divine for one Monday morning. :)
Thank you for the daily dose of wisdom - today in particular I'm trying to process this one:
How can the laws of nature be ruptured for you so that miracles result, when you, for your part, have yet to rupture your bad habits.
I should write a post about the Sacred and Profane but you already know this subject as only a poet and mystic can, and I am in a sort of hibernation or literary winter, not putting much out there anymore, for assorted reasons, none of them valid. #WeShouldBeWriting, as Jess used to say. But I keep saying "we should be reading too!" - in moderation - we should read each other, and avoid throwing rotten tomatoes and wet blankets, and send encouragement. (You know all this--I post it here for those who might not know--but I have a hunch no such readers will ever see my words.)
Ok, I need to keep surfing the web to get at what you touched on here with the Divine and the Sensual. Song of Solomon, the most sensual book of the Bible, is not regarded as profane.
Time now to check in with @owasco, one of the best of Hive's poets. :) She always startles me and makes me see things in a new light. Her writing is more cynical than yours, perhaps (if that is the right way to think of it). But I am ever a skeptic and a cynic, for all my wannabe mysticism, and @owasco speaks for me.
But I keep trying to focus on all that is POSITIVE and constructive and hopeful, even though it don't come easy. So I will close with something hopeful:
I read you, Carol, and hope to return more closely, later on. Preparing for a houseguest and should get offline, soon.
But, yes, fascinating (near paradoxical) subject the sensuality in mysticism. We are embodied spirits and even when we sublimate our essential/sensual drive it finds its way in the passionate address to the Divine…
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