! ! The Five Of Pentecost - To Marsilio Ficino Poem by Michael Shepherd

Sometimes you spell it out for us:
God’s earth – the matter of the universe,
holding without form at first,
all God’s love, grace, mercy, pardon,
as our earth which was yet to nourish;

God’s water – as His love,
flowing now; now binding hearts together;
baptizing with His grace;

God’s fire – that warms, consumes,
shines as the beauty of His blessing;
a light so bright, we cannot see His form..

What then, would you say
of God’s own air? That holy spirit,
that blows His grace as blow it will;
breathes through His boundless space
upon the souls in their own upper air;

And what then of God’s fifth element –
the ether, humming His vibrations?
what of the sound of God?
what may we listen to, or sound, of Him?

The upper room
of house, of soul;
a rushing, mighty wind
whose sound blew through their lives
with many voices; tongues of flame
around their heads;
and as much spirit, love, and grace,
and as much nourishment and daily bread
as man to man;
as soul to soul;
as godself to godself;

perhaps, as John said,
remembering that Pentecost -
one word.