The Road To Joyabaj Poem by Seamus O' Brian
The Road To Joyabaj
Heaven pierced the rim of the world
This morning in two gashes laid upon
The flinty grimness of a gray horizon
Through which the glories of heaven-
A cascade of golden light
Fell in radiant streams upon
A world hardened and grayed
By a deficit shaped like the absence
Of the color of love
A world dominated and contorted
By a single species
Capable of selfless compassion, yet
Intent on selfish annihilation
By the desiccation of brotherly love
Sucked from the earth like marrow
from the bone of every contention.
Four sleepy souls in a speeding Rover
Green as the skin of a ripe avocado
Rumble on toward the gashes of heaven
Tipping their timid hearts upward
Praying for rivulets of glory to fall
Around them, upon them, through them
To touch the earth and its children
With the color of love
With the color of light
With the color of life.
With the cascades of heaven.
Superb imagery. A great descriptive poem, written with flair and poetic excellence. A positive, humanist approach to life. A super 10
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I am so glad you gave me the Notes about the poem. They added so much to my appreciation of the poem. I can understand the glories of heaven cascading in golden light, falling in radiant streams upon a world hardened and grey. These words need to be pondered over: A world hardened and grayed By a deficit shaped like the absence Of the color of love A world dominated and contorted By a single species Capable of selfless compassion, yet Intent on selfish annihilation By the desiccation of brotherly love.. Thank you for images and the contemplation.