Material Otherness of Nature
© Surazeus
2026 02 01

Though grim shadow of mortality haunts
harsh hills of prelapsarian Arcady
full of lovesick shepherds and prancing sheep,
I search for vision of transcendent truth
through experience of Nature I record,
suspicious of mystical sentiment.

If shimmer of pure sentimental love
for Nature distorts perception of life,
I shall assert my clear identity,
reflected in Narcissan pool of fate,
and conduct solemn quest with open heart
to comprehend essential soul of Earth.

Alone on hilltop by the windswept tree,
where I enclose the whole Earth in broad scope
of my world view projected from its base,
I seek God in clear absence of its power
through which my consciousness expands to glow
in tune with numinous phantom of love.

Since humble shepherd with the raven quill
advises I look at the land with love
and not confuse my own flesh for its field,
I feel its blank indifference to fate
almost seem to mock effort of my will,
but I laugh knowing Nature has no mind.

Material Otherness of Nature glows
with personality my mind projects
so I see in vitality of fruitful trees
compassion for fragile being of my soul
which is not there in radiance of its growth,
pathetic fallacy of fearful hope.

When scolding moralist with magic wand
cautions me to avoid idolatry
that worships mindless Nature as its God,
I cast aside delusions of false pride
that local spirit of this land loves me,
and treasure spinning Earth is glob of dirt.

That vision of God on huge mossy rock,
who seems to gaze at me with loving eyes,
I realize through epiphany of faith
embodies soul of my ancestral fathers
whose guidance showed each new child how to live,
mortals providing ideal form for God.

Nature bristles with bright ancestral souls
of all my fathers and mothers who lived
millions of years in vales by sparkling streams
with negative magnitude of mind power
so God embodies spirits of their love
awake in conscious dreaming of my brain.

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Orpheus plays lyre of Mercury while Theocritus sings about mystical beauty of Nature that radiates through bodies of humans in touch with spirit of the Earth.

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