Can I survive the very light I created Irradiating from the godhead Surrounded by protective angels?
The divine quintessence in human form even wanes the crescent moon while it lights the stars and nebulae from within, as in a poem, whereas two philosophers wearing tawny cloaks, with winged beasts lying below their feet, argue about the essence of truth.
Is truth enlightenment from within like a crystal lamp lit on a grief-veined night, a darkness wherein roam hybrid hyenas, lions or ligers, their passions neutralized on paper and the canvas?
Dr. Emily Bilman is London Poetry Society’s Stanza representative in Geneva where she lives and teaches poetry. Her dissertation, The Psychodynamics of Poetry, was published by Lambert Academic in 2010 and Modern Ekphrasis in 2013 by Peter Lang, CH. Three poetry books, A Woman By A Well, Resilience, and The Threshold of Broken Waters were published by Troubador, UK. Her poems, essays, and translations of Neruda and Valéry appeared in The Battersea Review, Hunger Mountain, The High Window, The Journal of Poetics Research, Tuck Magazine, Offshoots, Expanded Field, and The London Magazine. “The Tear-Catcher” won the first prize for depth poetry in The New York Literary Magazine. She edits and writes poems and essays for a digital ekphrastic publication. Her latest poetry book, Apperception, was published by Troubador in September 2020. Her short fiction piece “The Gun” appeared in Talking Soup.
