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the thought is oft on my mind that all the poets here, I hold so dear,
that if we ne’er to meet in flesh & warmth of physical embrace,
that the nuances of our affections should be in someway marked by a lessening, a discoloration, be it be know then that our colors mutuel
will yet be be enhanced by
the colors of divine light,
this real light,
but invisible to the human naked eye’s limited spectrum,
this light fills the “unnamed, unmanned spaces between us;”
although we may not knowingly vision each other,
we may envision-know the
sensate glow from the warmth of each other’s blood coursing
blue in vein and artery,
with the aid of divine light,
trace each others faces with colorizing,
memorizing fingertips,
creating a seared retained memory;
the hues of theses impossible colored, rays that cannot be
optically ascertained, yet, we can understand them, in the same manner we mortals understand the divine presence,
invisible but ever present
in ways more real than, well, as real as any other mundane way
Apr 23, 2023
Apr 23, 2023 at 9:26 PM UTC
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the thought is oft on my mind that all the poets here, I hold so dear,
that if we ne’er to meet in flesh & warmth of physical embrace,
that the nuances of our affections should be in someway marked by a lessening, a discoloration, be it be know then that our colors mutuel
will yet be be enhanced by
the colors of divine light,
this real light,
but invisible to the human naked eye’s limited spectrum,
this light fills the “unnamed, unmanned spaces between us;”
although we may not knowingly vision each other,
we may envision-know the
sensate glow from the warmth of each other’s blood coursing
blue in vein and artery,
with the aid of divine light,
trace each others faces with colorizing,
memorizing fingertips,
creating a seared retained memory;
the hues of theses impossible colored, rays that cannot be
optically ascertained, yet, we can understand them, in the same manner we mortals understand the divine presence,
invisible but ever present
in ways more real than, well, as real as any other mundane way
Inspired by Patrik Reuterswärd's 1971 essay, "What Color Is Divine Light?" and the art of Anne Lindberg's installations, both a response to an
unanswerable question
that yet answers and speaks to me
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_light
What colors are invisible light?
However, there are other “colours” that our eyes can't see, beyond red and violet, they are: infrared and ultraviolet. Comparing these pictures, taken in these three “types of light”, the rainbow appears to extend far beyond the visible light.
April 2023
NYC, Washington, D.C.
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