Mielahti

The poem below is connected to the photo above. It was taken at Mielahti, a magical, mirror smooth bay in beautiful lake Jämijärvi in Finland, where I have spent many summers with my family. Somehow light and water are made for each other, aren't they. I'm reminded of the first chapter of Genesis, where the Spirit of God is moving over the primeval waters when God says, "Let there be light." Ever since then light and water have been sisters and friends - just ask Monet. You may have noticed that the interplay of light and water seems to come up in quite a few of the poems in this blog.

I hope that together the poem and the photo will give some impression of what I get so excited about. The clouds reflected in the water and the lake reflected in the sky are mirrors of God's presence manifesting in us and of our consciousness embraced in His unfathomably deep awareness - for "in Him we live and move and have our being." I hope it works for you too!

Lovers who cannot drink

Enough of one another

Heaven gazes into

The lake’s still water

And she returns the

Stillness of his shining

Element to element

Embosomed in each other

The brightness draws up

Vapour from the deepness

Replenishing the clouds

Whose distillation

Flows rippling down

Into the deep again

Her surface shifts, mists,

Shimmers in his breathings

His image trembles

Dissolves and is reborn

The workaday land of

Streets and offices

Now shrinks away

Into a slip of horizon

While the sky’s shabbat

Opens in vast caverns

Luminous at my feet

Steps of the Shekinah

All noiselessly

The water walker approaches

Calling me to step out

From my staid shore.