Library Of Hearts © Surazeus 2025 04 17 Divine longing to walk the hidden course through irregular bloom of hungry shadows urges my eyes to perceive ordered forms blurred in abundant rhythm of desire with undeterred gestures to manage growth of wild trees that obscure pathway of faith. Beaming within limits of its taut sphere, the sun weaves bodies of organic brains from flashing molecules of timeless truth who dance together on the ocean shore and sing in harmony with swirling waves with rapturous awe at beauty of light. Mind-pulsing revery of honey bees causes clovers to sprout from rancid prairies where children splash in starry-silver pools, then hold their breath and float on nothingness, suspended between credence and despair based on narrative of hope we compose. Crouched inside encompassing wall of mounds that shields our bodies from hunger of monsters, we whisper perfect names in secret code to realign attention of our eyes with focus on dark shadows of despair that lurk among indifferent trees of faith. Eager to erase ignorance of Earth, we attempt to explore beyond the pale of sacred haven where we clutch word keys with fierce objective to protect the truth in tandem with speech of electric leaves that rustle softly in the haughty breeze. We catalog strange objects we observe as mind-animated parts of blind trees that teach our hearts to be reliable with rooted stories of the wanderers who transplant ghosts from garden of mad gods to prove our souls are born from wind and rain. Gold warblers lounge in maples by the lake with holy mission to retrieve the star that falls in blaze of glory from storm clouds to write our memoirs in black-feathered books we store with care in Library of Hearts where daffodils bloom from our rotting brains. Dawn wrenches lonely hills from wordless graves without respect for how we humans feel, so we map signless roads of everywhere which all lead straight to City of the Owl embodied by the girl with moon-gray eyes who teaches me to sing when angels weep.
Thursday, April 17, 2025
Library Of Hearts
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Orpheus plays lyre of Mercury so lost souls may follow him on the hidden course to City of the Owl.
ReplyDeleteSpiritual Guardian of Hidden Knowledge
ReplyDelete"Library of Hearts" by Surazeus, dated April 17, 2025, echoes deeply with the spirit and stylistic sensibilities of the British Romantic poets, such as William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Lord Byron. When analyzed within this tradition, the poem reveals itself as a richly layered meditation on nature, imagination, the soul, and the search for transcendent meaning, central tenets of Romanticism.
I. Nature as a Sacred and Mysterious Force
ReplyDelete“with undeterred gestures to manage growth
of wild trees that obscure pathway of faith.”
Romantics saw nature not merely as a backdrop but as a dynamic spiritual force, often reflecting inner emotional or metaphysical states. Surazeus presents nature—wild trees, waves, clovers, bees—not as passive scenery but as agents of mystery and transformation, aligned with Wordsworth's belief in nature as a "teacher" and source of moral truth.
“the sun weaves bodies of organic brains
from flashing molecules of timeless truth”
This merging of cosmic and natural imagery evokes the Romantic sublime—the awe-inspiring grandeur that stirs the soul and overwhelms the rational mind. Much like Shelley’s vast and impersonal skies or Coleridge’s sea and ice, Surazeus’s natural elements border on the mystical, bearing knowledge and truth from beyond human understanding.
II. Imagination and the Inner Life
ReplyDelete“Mind-pulsing revery of honey bees
causes clovers to sprout from rancid prairies”
Here the imagination becomes a generative force, reminiscent of Coleridge’s theory of the “secondary imagination”—a creative power that reshapes reality. The speaker seems to move through an internal landscape shaped by desire, memory, and dream, rather than empirical experience.
“then hold their breath and float on nothingness,
suspended between credence and despair”
The emotional state is liminal, echoing Keats's “negative capability”—an ability to dwell in uncertainty without the need for fixed conclusions. The suspension between belief and despair is archetypically Romantic, where existential tension is not resolved but poetically explored.
III. The Role of the Poet and the Sacred Archive
ReplyDelete“we clutch word keys
with fierce objective to protect the truth”
This evokes the Romantic poet as prophet or truth-bearer, a spiritual guardian of hidden knowledge. Words such as “keys,” “memoirs,” and the titular “Library of Hearts” suggest a poetic mission akin to Blake's illuminated books or Shelley's defense of poetry as a keeper of the moral imagination.
“to write our memoirs in black-feathered books
we store with care in Library of Hearts”
The idea of hearts storing memory and truth, of books born from personal decay (“bloom from our rotting brains”), touches on the Romantic paradox of beauty emerging from suffering, creation from decay—Keats’s "Ode to a Nightingale" and "Ode on Melancholy" are particularly resonant here.
IV. The Interplay of Light, Shadow, and Faith
ReplyDeleteLight and shadow play throughout the poem in opposition, reflecting internal conflicts of faith, doubt, and vision.
“blurred in abundant rhythm of desire”
“focus on dark shadows of despair
that lurk among indifferent trees of faith”
These lines recall Blake’s “Songs of Innocence and of Experience”, where opposing states coexist. Surazeus questions faith while still invoking it, creating a space for paradox that was essential to Romantic metaphysics—faith not as dogma, but as a personal quest.
V. The Figure of the Muse or Mystical Other
ReplyDelete“embodied by the girl with moon-gray eyes
who teaches me to sing when angels weep.”
This mysterious feminine figure recalls many Romantic muses—Wordsworth’s Lucy, Coleridge’s Aeolian harp, or Byron’s idealized lovers. She is both guide and symbol, possibly an embodiment of inspiration, the soul, or poetic truth. The “City of the Owl” also hints at a mythopoetic landscape, akin to Blake’s mythic cities or Shelley’s idealized utopias.
VI. Language, Form, and Vision
ReplyDeleteFormally, though disciplined within the structure of blank verse, the poem eschews traditional meters and rhyme, yet its metrical freedom and dense metaphor resonate with later Romantic experimentation. The diction is elevated, mythic, and symbolic, saturated with archetypal imagery (light, trees, stars, monsters, angels).
The visionary tone and recursive symbolism mirror the Romantic project of creating a personal mythos—Surazeus seems less interested in a linear narrative than in mapping an internal cosmology through poetic fragments, like a Blakean scripture or Coleridgean dreamscape.
Final Thoughts
ReplyDelete"Library of Hearts" is a Romantic poem in both spirit and structure. It channels the longing and reverence for nature, creative imagination, and moral urgency that defined the British Romantic movement. It positions the poet as both observer and mystic, charting emotional and spiritual landscapes through rich symbolic language. Surazeus, like his Romantic predecessors, seeks not just to describe the world, but to transform it through poetic vision.