Flower Experience

The precise camellia opening slow her bloom

Petal by petal in loveliness reveals

A hidden delight spun from Deity's loom

To break in man the dull and clouded seals

On eyes that would all Beauty's realms behold

And hearts that yearn to open to new light,

Souls that might both Nature and man enfold

And rise above this narrow constrained sight

To see the world as truly it was made,

A dwelling place of love divinely true

Where one needs neither darkness nor the shade

Protecting ignorance that limits new

Miraculous transcendences to come.

Appearing now at vision's farthest edge

Golden rays suffuse this earthly dome,

Upon the future's bright and shining ridge

Where children with the eyes of God appear

And landscapes long forgotten by the soul,

Of truth that blossoms in a timeless year

The far-receding, ever-nearing goal

Of earth rejoined to streams divine and bliss

Unknown approach through calm of mind,

The spirit rise to suffer Godhead's kiss

And life divine on earth our seeking find.