"Earth and Fire" pastel by Ward Jarman

Wind and Rancor

Conformed complacency of ordered familiarity

Scheduled in routine movements of predictability

Engulf you with time-tested, life-sustaining pulsation

Of efficient, regular, rhythmic oscillations.

You are the meditative hum of perfect being.

Without contrast and with all colors fused

You are sightless in white warmth amused

By harmonious constancy and eternal law

Flawless from inception, innate omnipotent of awe.

You are no rigid substance but pure, formless obedience.

Within each of all your dimensions is a loyalty,

A plain and simple photonic energy

Circularly arranged each to each spherically

That willingly collides in preconceived ecstasy.

You are full of feeling reeling with possibility.

With each particular photon’s easy sprint and glide

There is a comfortable singular glow that slides

Then binds to others in luxuriant extravagance

Swelling to overwhelming, proud, infinite radiance.

All from small acceptance of unified conformity.

Although you feel comfort and security, you wonder.

Are the limits of your law all that you are or can be?

Can not a shift in speed, or distance, or duration alter

Those overlapping pulsations that outwardly flow free,

Never absorbed, never obstructed, and never reflected?

Must you constantly, forever, pulsate outward but be unfed?

photo by Ward Jarman

Can instantaneous achievement feed your soul for eons?

Can you love well trained, constrained, predictably sane photons,

Empty, formless, barren forces void of any self-concerns

Organized in minutely precise, status-quo patterns?

What have you to grasp? Have you anything to cherish?

Perpetual motion, you say, impeccable logic– a small wish

Frivolous and foolish that might grow toward mature beauty? —

No, a mathematics pure, exact, a righteous serenity.

Logos Unmovable, Protectorate Unyielding, I shout.

You are known and I have begun to spin and fling us about.

I am your sprit and we are hot, infused with anger,

Hateful of vacant creations numbed by unsensed hunger

Fashioned by the dispassionate coolness of unbiased thought.

We are each to each unique but not separately wrought.

Logos Unyielding, I am within you seething to digress

With enthusiastic glory, fever, frenzy and madness,

Hysteria and delirium, arousal and yearning,

An internal churning and fermenting heat swirling

Throughout and within to the smallest of all that we are.

You have never tasted, nor felt the wealth of my bizarre,

My audacity, my enticements, seductions and fantasies,

My arrogance, my flirtatious contempt for being cautious,

My tenderness from pain that we feel and pain laced memories.

Logic knows no magic, no lust — nothing miraculous.

Poised in self hypnosis you know not even one dream.

Where is your fury? I am here, I speak. I dream. I am Wind.

Your flawless law for peace that defines confinement, I rescind.

From stagnation with Beauty or with Riot I will redeem.

I am the stillness between each and all of our particles,

the defining space that isolates, the membrane sheath that creates.

I am the Soul-Maker, the arrangement that separates,

the black voids, the gaping mouth that spits out miracles,

the clamor of whispered rumor, the inspired solitude,

the temptation that nags, the sweet desire that instigates.

I am the breath of the pulsating glow, the Soul of Fire,

Expanding oxidation, schizophrenic interlude.

I am the Prime Mover, the Spoiler, Naïveté’s Bane.

I fabricate and conjure phantoms with whom I conspire

To fashion and embellish my sensuous quagmire.

I am mine and we are luscious. With you, Logos, we have lain

in male female confusion, schooled by deluded effusion

and have slain the hymen that bleeds beneath unrestrained desire.

AI image by Bernard Jarman

Love’s friction arcs sarks that fly and swirl to burn self-made heat

and flicker light-splashes on the burgundy ooze’s profusion

while measured pressured strokes yoke the soul to my intoxicant,

a narcotic hallucinogen honeysuckle sweet.

Perfumed and cologne we mingle our vital juices in orgy;

we quake; we tumble and entwine; we explode and are spent.

Fragmented isolates, multitudinous exploits in matter,

We are scattered splats of ooze and cosmic gas, a cooling fury

that has shattered the calm, constant, perfect integrity

to birth a concrete, fleeting myriad of moralized ether.