Emerald Mandala Synopsis
The Emerald Mandala is a spiritual shelter, a sanctuary of sorts. It is a harmony of words and rhymes to take you to far away inner places. Inside you will find fables, prayer, dilemma, and intentional absurdities. Angelic advocates wait to take you on wings widespread and destined for the heavens. Love is discussed, insights appraised, mind and spirit explored. The Emerald Mandala is a journey from which you will return changed, maybe ever so slightly, but changed nevertheless. It will likely provoke you. It may touch your heart. It might leave you mystified or confused, but it will certainly leave you in better thought. Within these emerald walls, we will explore ourselves together, we will challenge our beliefs to see if they endure, and we will pray and hope for similar providence. I ascribe my poems to no particular religion or doctrine. I seek God by any means left to me. There are as many paths back as there are rays of the sun. Join me now and let us ignore our differences, embrace our alikeness, and seek together that we may end up as One. Let the Emerald Mandala transport us beyond the worldly bonds that seek to contain and diminish us. Let it be our mutual conveyance to set our direction, side by side, to the road Home.
Large and Magnificent
I am no small matter
I refuse the puny portion offered
I will wait to feast with my King
Offer me no more refusals
When I reject those already proffered
I am great and holy and Christ
My brothers and sisters they join me
All as one we return
To golden palace offered
No more frail bodies
Nor brains impersonating Mind
No more flip flop emotions
Only peace and rest await us
Minus need or any wants
Whole and free and happy
Large and magnificent we are
From Emerald Mandala - copyright 2009 J. Michaels