Criteria For Release Poem by Emmanuel George Cefai

Criteria For Release



Criteria for release
From the spell of the Moon
The round and yellow moon
That was of yesterday
The yellow Moon that
Froze
The flesh and bone and blood
Of all these silent humans
Into statues as of stone
Deep into silence.
The criteria were
Lumped in a musty document
Rolled up
Into the heavens and bound
By threads of intermittent gold:
Dawn must be invoked
By holy monks all night
This night
To break the spell and
Move these humans
To blood and bone
De-freeze them.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Patti Masterman 24 May 2014

Wow it's like a reversing spell to make us all human again. (Rumi said a human all full of meat and drink is like a statue, a husk..) The dawn-invocation of the monks..perfection.

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Colleen Courtney 23 May 2014

An interesting poem! Enjoyed the read!

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