Thursday, December 7, 2023

A Bohemian Poet on the Way to Florence’s Dome


As you go through the ancient street

closer to the Dome, the air starts to mold,

turning into marble—both green and white

—and as it does, it further grows and soars,

 

by taking on a shape of cathedral, and you

cannot help but raise your eyes to the sky—

and step by step you begin to sense and see:

the divine too needs a living space and mode

 

to strike its own imprints deeper into our hearts

till the soul is reached or forged as its valid coin

with which beauty buys yet another mortal life,

 

and whoever becomes such a seeing one enters

a transcending sight, carved out of the sublime,

and there one is recast into bands of rising light.

 

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