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Light Seized Me
Light seized me when I was twenty lost and patched, golden and grubby years old. I wasn’t asking for it, but like silver rain down a glass tube it came. That began me, and is why at the age of sixty-three I had to write everything I learned has meaning into a story that seems impossible to tell. Think of the most controversial, minefield laden, passion packed, status quo gray-wrapped and warped, ho-hummed story you know of—that’s still subtly soaked with the twisted fear of extinction—and imagine re-imagining the entire thing, putting all the left out stuff back in until it sings like little mystical children running naked on a wild beach. Strangely, in a world like this, people get crucified for that.
This story, The Wild Christ Nobody Owns, has been published in Denmark. (What is it about those Danes? They seem to have an instinct for controversy.) It is getting around Scandinavia, and those still in touch with their wild Viking blood like it.
As for me, I’m currently living in Sweden. This is my eighth book in print. I have written three thousand poems, four novels, many children's stories, produced fifteen CDs of recorded work, collaborated on choral pieces, (one performed in the Kennedy Center and National Cathedral), and given over two hundred public recitals of my poetic work. I am currently polishing the sequel to The Wild Christ entitled The Passionate Holy. My on-line work can be accessed through www.blakesteele.com and reviews of The Wild Christ Nobody Owns are at www.wildchrist.org/wcbook.htm.
This story, The Wild Christ Nobody Owns, has been published in Denmark. (What is it about those Danes? They seem to have an instinct for controversy.) It is getting around Scandinavia, and those still in touch with their wild Viking blood like it.
As for me, I’m currently living in Sweden. This is my eighth book in print. I have written three thousand poems, four novels, many children's stories, produced fifteen CDs of recorded work, collaborated on choral pieces, (one performed in the Kennedy Center and National Cathedral), and given over two hundred public recitals of my poetic work. I am currently polishing the sequel to The Wild Christ entitled The Passionate Holy. My on-line work can be accessed through www.blakesteele.com and reviews of The Wild Christ Nobody Owns are at www.wildchrist.org/wcbook.htm.
WHAT IF?
What if all of this life
is but one grand rehearsal
for a life beyond
the round sphere
that encases us:
this egg shell
of light and dark,
painted on the inside
with sunshine
and stars?
What if here we learn
to dance with clay feet
through all pain and resistance
so we may know better
how to dance there through pure space,
singing in clouds of Light,
sailing through stars?
What if each prayer we utter in the dark
teaches our spirit-hearts
how to bear immeasurable
beauty with humility in pure Light,
being clear about the true origin
of everything?
And what if each act of Love
that moves us out beyond
the small circles of selfishness
anchors our high and future self
into limitless fields of galaxies
and stars, and countless worlds
in radiant spheres that expand beyond
all limits of time, space
and imagination?
What if?
is but one grand rehearsal
for a life beyond
the round sphere
that encases us:
this egg shell
of light and dark,
painted on the inside
with sunshine
and stars?
What if here we learn
to dance with clay feet
through all pain and resistance
so we may know better
how to dance there through pure space,
singing in clouds of Light,
sailing through stars?
What if each prayer we utter in the dark
teaches our spirit-hearts
how to bear immeasurable
beauty with humility in pure Light,
being clear about the true origin
of everything?
And what if each act of Love
that moves us out beyond
the small circles of selfishness
anchors our high and future self
into limitless fields of galaxies
and stars, and countless worlds
in radiant spheres that expand beyond
all limits of time, space
and imagination?
What if?
