Cezar IVĂNESCU

THE SUTRAS OF MUTENESS


SUTRA I

! So does the Lord punish
the wicked and black ravens
that won’t see His Face:
he no longer shows up before Them: as if they were blind!


SUTRA I
  (Tao)

! it’s decency
in You,
Being,
do make it come
to me for good


SUTRA II

! what I unravel
out of unworthiness
lies as a golden carpet
 before You

and the harm I do to me
You turn into good;
How could I come
To You, My Lord ?


SUTRA II
(Samadhi)
                                    to Aurelian Titu Dumitrescu

! for blessedness I rose and floated in the air,
for vertiginous vertigo…
what is my Real Nature, God?
of blessedness my Soul is dying
and on its path the genuine Life it is gulping …
for blessedness I rose and floated in the air 
like an Old Kid
with the Lady of the Clouds
in the Lotus as if in a habitacle
 woven up from a Memory so suave

sarva atman !

SUTRA II
   (Tao)

! God sends sign
through the people
and the sign you bear means
that you are to go off so as to leave me all alone,
all alone with my God within me!

(from Cezar Ivănescu. La Baad. Editura Eminescu, Bucuresti. 1996.)
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