The silver net

Chapter 41: THE EARTH REGAINED

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A sequence of lyrical meditations that shifts between dreamlike visions, confessional solitude, and mythic or biblical reverie. Recurring images of sea and shipwreck, roses and gardens, and masked or legendary figures are used to probe longing, shame, desire, and the hope for spiritual renewal. Poems alternate between dramatic monologue, fable-like sketches, and brief nocturnes, exploring the tensions between illusion and revelation, life and death, and love as both ensnaring and ennobling, producing a compact, contemplative cycle of symbolist-inflected verse.

THE EARTH REGAINED

Down, deep down, the damned are delving,

Delving at their prison walls,

Ever delving;

Till at times the walls give way

And the shrieking, hissing spirits,

Through some old volcanic fissure,

Upwards scramble to the light,

Free to walk the earth again,

Loosing in their eager flight

Hell’s liquid fire upon the world.