Perfect Synchronicity
He thought back to that hour at dusk’s still height,
When bird-song sounded both, outside and in him,
And body’s form dissolved in fading light—
No line to part the outer from within him.
He closed his eyes, lest vision should betray
The boundless calm that gathered in his breast;
The infinite drew softly, soul to sway,
Till starlight settled where his soul found rest.
Through branches rose the vast, illumined sky
That watched him, as he watched, in equal grace;
So pure the bond, he felt all self pass by—
The heart became the universe’s face.
Then all creation, breathing silently,
Flowed through his soul in constant harmony.
Scharlie Meeuws, a poet born in Germany, began writing at a young age. She studied in Spain and France, writing poems in Spanish and French before settling in England, where she co-owns Thorntons Bookshop, the oldest in Oxford. Scharlie’s poetry has been featured in magazines and anthologies, including the Guardian. Her work was recognized by Nobel Prize winner Vicente Aleixandre. Her most recent book is The Emotional Robot and Other Poems. Her poetry book Outbranching was published by Cerasus, London in 2021 and is available on Amazon.
A poem that marries the finite and the infinite in a way that encompasses whatever your beliefs are.
Thanks for apiece so relevant with the upcoming holiday season.
Well-done, thoughtful sonnet.
I love poems with cosmic scope, and Meeuws comes through once again. I think she’ll be around for a long time, and I hope to be around to witness her continuing adventures into deep noetic space. It’s a wonderful world.
This poem is on one hand so simple, so brief, yet on the other cosmic in scope — exactly like the human person it treats. The action is at once finite and infinite, personal and universal, momentary and eternal. You deftly combine both aspects.