Weird and black in the light,
Hidden without shadow, bright black
Glowing, humming, and razor-sharp,
Heavy-beaked, keen-eyed and impudent,
Half-maker watches the unguarded roads
As the day is born, the day-star rising
Transforming darkness to virginal white,
Street-born refugee, smudge-faced and beautiful
Crosses in her eyes, singing the light
The devil vanishing in transformation to love
The Knave, strange and awake,
Asks his way in a land where he knows no one,
Their minds opaque, murky and dark
Bright black, weird in the light
The Half-maker's folk, shadows in the vapor
Still he seeks that other country,
Where Knave becomes Knight, all his wounds in front
Clad in violet, conversing with the dark
Pleading in the hope of a shift
When such a man Awakens to the Cup!
3 comments:
That is a fine poem. Would you please finish your book now? Thank you.
Also, for the uneducated, could you please explain the symbolism of the Knave and the Cup? You know very well that if it's not to do with yarn or photoshop, I won't understand it!
The Fool is usually used in place of the Knave, but the Fool usually stumbles blindly into things. I like the Knave better, because his symbolism is more active and in control.
The Cup is symbolic of Enlightenment, or Oneness with the Absolute. It is the Grail in Arthurian Myth.
The Fool encounters the Cup, the Knave is searching for it. When he finds it, he becomes the Grail Knight, symbolizing the person's achievement of Enlightenment.
I bought some yellow and blue yarn today.
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