Fire Untamed

My response to Emberlight

In the sliver of night

Just before dawn

I light a white candle symbol of

God’s fire untamed

I point my straightened spine

At the hollow left by

The midnight moon

I turn to the banked embers

At my spines’s root

God’s fire untamed

I place there my awareness 

Breathe in….slowly

Pause

Breathe out…. slowly

Ya Nur Ya Alim

The Divine Light the All Knowing

In the emptiness between breaths

Silent I gather up

God’s fire untamed

Through seven gates

We entered this life

Through seven gates

Our body formed

Through seven gates 

We die we are reborn

Through seven gates 

God’s fire untamed

The seven stars

The seven churches

The seven seals

At each chakra subtle center

I pause repeat

Ya Nur Ya Alim

Like sap to the crown

Of a tree

My awareness pulls upward

To the crown of consciousness 

God’s fire untamed

Back down the spine 

At each chakra again

Ya Nur Ya Alim

I rest within each breath

Eleven times silent

I inhale Nur exhale Alim

I rest restored to spine’s root

God’s fire untamed

Reviews

[BuzzyB]

I could chant this poem...felt like a prayer. Gives peace. Repetition adds power.

[Michael Sun Bear]

Thank you. The actual practice described brings me peace. I am glad you feel that way about the poem.

[BuzzyB]

The message resonated with me.

[Curly Grace]

Your response transforms the ember of my poem into a sacred flame. The breath, the seven gates, the invocations, it feels like watching fire ascend into light.

[Thomas W Case]

The imagery is superb. You make this come to life.

[Michael Sun Bear]

This is not my best writing. I conceived this poem as a response to Sarah’s Emberlight. While her poem has in places a physical eroticism, I wanted mine to imitate her repetition, but substitute God’s fire for the author’s fire. So I forced an idea into the repeating format. I often rise very early and do half an hour or more of spiritual practices such as meditation and prayer. I like to begin by raising the energy at the base of the spine, pausing at each chakra to focus the energy there, wake up the chakras. I combine that with chanting two of the holy names of God in the original Arabic of the Holy Quran. The names are first spoken out loud, then repeated silently on the breath. Traditionally one repeats to a count of 11, 33, or 99.

My poem might make more sense actually if I had written: God’s fire tamed by breath, or harnessed with breath. Sorry, I dashed off the poem quickly without explanation of what I was attempting to convey.

[redd Brick Keshner]

The contrasting of a “regulated” fire in a lit candle against the untamed fire is quite the compelling image and internal journey 🕊️🙏🏻

[JessyJacob]

Hi Mike, i really liked your lines not fully understood but you wrote about chakras that is great to know you talk spirituality.

Thank you for sharing your writing.

Jessy Jacob