The silver net

Chapter 9: EVOLUTION

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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.

EVOLUTION

She rests among the roses red and gay,

Wrapt in the golden mantle of her hair,

While in her eyes—two mirrors blue and fair—

All girlhood’s winsome charms and wonders play.

Love to the shimmering sunbeams spreads his wings,

And speeding through the skies with laughing eyes,

Comes to the rosy bower where beauty sighs,

Presses his lips upon her lips and sings.

O symbol towering o’er our downward strife,

In Heaven born, like Heaven immutable,

Gift of the dreamy spheres to grosser earth,

Wherein is shadowed forth to-morrow’s birth,

The unknown made to man attainable—

Love opening with a kiss the book of life!