Sunday, March 31, 2019
Mahler # 2 (poem by Dorothy)
Mahler #2
god knows, I have tried.
I swore that this time
I would not surrender,
let each note and reverberation
possess me,
enter and make my body
a sounding board,
ravishment
by sound.
What is this strange capacity
of resonance
to conquer
and transform?
To make of me
a sensuous echoing
of bliss,
a figure transfigured,
self absorbed and
melted
into that which it
is not,
inhabited by another reality,
forgotten self reborn?
I am the princess
taken and won,
the prince claimimg
the prize,
the lonely soul
stumbling
into Eden,
lost spirit
home once again.
Dorothy Walters
March 31, 2019
