Poems and Meditations

presents

Illustrated Poetry from "Poems and Meditations"

"Imagination in its fundamental meaning, as defined by Shakespeare or Blake, and known to all great creative artists, is the making and the responding to images of all kinds in the outer and the inner worlds. We don't have to be great artists to do this; every one of us has the ability to repsond by at least beginning to say 'yes' or 'no' to the strangers who knock on the doors of our souls."

--Helen M. Luke

Currently Featured Graphic:

"Fire Clouds"

This is the third version (variation) of this image. You can see the others on my FIRE CIRCLE page.

Previous Featured Graphic:

"Angels and Devils"

If you look closely you can almost see their faces! Very strongly reminiscent of Anne Rice's description of all the souls in Sheol (addressed in her latest Vampire Chronicles Novel, "Memnoch, The Devil.")

KEY 18: The Moon

("In Worlds Between")

For the Night lends Her counsel
In worlds between
The Daylights Rays,
Whose eyes are dim
In ways unseen.

There She lights the Golden Path
Into the mountainous heights
Of my desire,
And leads me ever forward
Toward the true reflection
Of my Self,
Eternally suspended
Within Her Fire!

-- Shawn E. Donahoo (3/8/93)
(Northport, Alabama)

Song of the Sea

Sing to me a Song of the Sea
Whose ever-changing melody
Is rich with power and mystery

And never quite finished
Yet always complete;
A Song of History
And Prophecy...

--Shawn E. Donahoo (6/19/90)
(Decatur, Alabama)

Inspiration

Inspiration...
That fleeting inward glance--
A glimpse glinting towards eternity,
Reflected back in the eyes of the beholder--
To carry the spark a little farther,
A little deeper into the Soul of Man...

--Shawn E. Donahoo (6/13/90)
(Decatur, Alabama)

The Cliff

I stand upon the side of a cliff
Of a Mountain of the Past,
Looking into the Chasm of Eternity.

I see the Lake of the Future
Shimmering in the twilight below,
Gently reflecting the stars of the Heavens.

And I contemplate the stone that
I've journeyed here to cast,
Trying to judge before I let it fly,
Upon what shores its ripples might be known...

--Shawn E. Donahoo (7/24/89)
(Boston, Massachussets)

The Dove in The Stone

Round and round and round we go--
Not too fast, and not too slow
So we may see, through blood and bone,
The Precious Dove found in The Stone.

--Shawn E. Donahoo (3/22/94)
(Lillian, Alabama)

Through Numbered Days

Through numbered days, the count unknown,
We make our way from dawn to dusk,

Yet in our dreams from midnights cusp
Unnumbered lives we dare to play

While under the Moons pale, watchful eye,
A thousand stars look on . . .

--Shawn E. Donahoo (3/23/94)
(Lillian, Alabama)

The Forgotten Fountain

Within a Forest, deep and cool,
There lies a Fountain of Forgotten Truth,
Long abandoned and overgrown
By seeds of Folly, lightly sown
In youths tempestuous haste.

Within this Fountain's Eye I step
Back through a hidden past
To see the life I left behind
Beyond the one I know.

Its waters still and dark as glass
Reflect a face now hardly known--
A stranger from the past.

To rise with spheres of colored glass,
Their forgotten magic shown.

--Shawn E. Donahoo (7/25/94)
(Decatur, Alabama)

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