I bring you drops: drops of a yellow daffodil, tear drops.
Please, only the first drops, not the second drops!
I bring you green plantings: plantings for the window box, plantings for the churchyard.
Please, only the first plantings, not the second plantings.
I bring you bright up-risings: up-risings of the openings, an Up-rising of the Closing.
(Easter 2014)
April 6, 2014
This is a dialog between the Angel and Man. In each case, the Angel is offering a pair of things, similar yet of contrasting import - joy and sorrow. In response to the first, Man strenuously objects, desiring only the joy. Similarly in the second case, although more tenatively. In the third case, Man finds himself silenced.
ReplyDeleteSee the sequence: Daffodils -> flowers in a window box -> sunrises. Mourning -> burial -> resurrection.
In terms of figurative language, the first line is plain; the second line is but slightly removed, hanging on the pun of "plantings". The third line is even more figurative, hanging on "up-rising" and the duality of "opening" and "closing". To be clear: "up-risings of the openings" means sunrises, and "up-rising of the closing" refers to "that great gettin'-up morning", i.e. the resurrection at the close of the age. See Matthew 28:20, and 1 Corinthians 15:52.