Clear Blue and Clear White

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“from everywhere, from nowhere” ~R. H. Blyth

Sometimes it seems the universe is clear

In what it says.  A daybreak comes in blue

Of almost unseen, near transparent sphere

As nights of toil are cast away.  A true

Epiphany, a whispered shout, insists

That soul wake up and put away the weight

Of life-drugged drowsiness.  The curl of fists

From revelation flashes past the hate

And dust of living.  Scales on eyes fall down

And suddenly you see what you have known

But never loved.  A see-through moon is crown

Of spirit wakened, from a sapphire’s zone.

  It is the blue and white that lacks the scars

    Of craters.  It is set among Christ’s stars.

© Phillip Whidden