Teaglach: A Family Spiral

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 2007

Teaglach: A Family Spiral

 

This poem investigates the spiral of life, from death, through the gate of rebirth to life. The connection between dark and bright, the spirit manifested within the body. Within the structure of the poem I have attempted to reconcile the old theological doctrine of dualism and extend it, to incorporate the validity and connection between the transcendant and the corporeal. There within is the notion of our life on a constant spiral, ever connected from ancient time to infinite possibility.........

 

Teaghlach (Family Spiral)

 

 

Spiritual swirling world, disintegrating strands of life

Forgetting memories, whirls of sense, vibrant

Wandering down-ward, wind-washed descending

Maze of voices, concentric, slipping

Dividing sound of rains, splitting

Surfing, swimming, dripping round

On a serpentine path

An invisible

Reduction

Door-man

Of

Death

+

Birth

A

Wom-an

Succulent

Warm – delicious

Lake of nourishment

Gentle, palm-voices forming

Finger-prints etched, building in

Bone, muscle, sinew, flesh, ovular

Creating, envisaging, formula – bond

Perception, apprehension, desire into

Force; heart – pumping, wrenching, sucking contraction

Surge – gushing, bursting, screaming, swirling spiritual

 

All Rights Reserved - DAVID JOHN DREW - 2007

Image: Newgrange, Ireland,  30 October 2013, Young Shanahan