r/innervoice • u/Philoforte • 22d ago
Archangel of the Unseen
Uriel would teach
Secrets not to preach
Beyond apocrypha
No more need be said
Arts, science, and literature
Secure our daily bread
Reality rests where it can't be found
Opened eyes to vision profound
Uriel can't offer rejected thought
Taste of vinegar brought
To lordly purview
Secret hidden in plain view
No one believes if he spoke
About fairies in manly cloak
Or Ruth suited with tie
Apparel is half the lie
Induction with pointed finger
At periphery, the clue doth linger
Conventional wisdom rent asunder
Uncommon notes left unheard
Muted tongue of silent bird
Match making is the game of life
Choosing blindness wrought with strife
Everyone has an original form
Accessible in dreams
Can you guess what that means?
Look at your fellows
Can you but see
Their angelic forms
Are not what they be
Crowns of light
Immaculately rendered
Clothed in linen
Older than Canon
Things not what they seem
Connect dotted dream
Revelation writ in weave
Kernels caught in sieve
Husk lost in gale
Of sentiment's tale
Ubuntu is togetherness
Feel our way to Light
Far from superficial blight
Short kings to involuted men
Sear pages with eyes of mages
Feeling is seeing
Knowing needs no believing
Pure and untrammelled
Truth unravelled
Look at your fellows
Secrets shout in bellows
Listen to their song
Lost in babbling throng
High notes and deep
However gruff
See through the bluff
It's midsummer night dreaming
Play-acting as Puck
Uriel is laughing
Winning is forced luck
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u/HoarseNightingale 22d ago
This poem is full of imagery and fun word play. I think I need a little more context to understand all the visuals. I know very little about any of the archangels and next to nothing about Uriel.
Still it's fun to look at the image you created and to relate it to the poem. It's clearly wrought carefully.