Horoscope of Prince Iskander, by the Royal Kitabkhana Workshop of Persia (Persia) 1411
in the holy scriptures that visionary spectrum calls forth your subterranean self, asks you to transcend what you know, to melt, to cradle your wholeness against the solace of seraphic sky.
You glide through the Platonic realm, where you were first conceived, as spark, as aleph, as bay, as Piscean yin yang realisation back to ram of self discovery. Summoned to begin again, you hang dot to dot in the ether of awakening.
You floated away with your old soul fragmenting in your wake and now, now you have to grow a new soul, one you were coaxing abloom all along.
It’s beautiful out here, in the cosmosis of all-knowing self, an undoing of all you knew. It is the arrival of fourth sky plane, dream world caverns, a purging of consciousness, an arabica of joy.
You are a puzzle of rapture calligraphed anew. You always knew you belonged somehow, you just didn’t know how until now. All this time, enlightenment was hiding in plane sight, if only you had peeked beyond the mayan skyscape at the edge of the woebegone world.
You are the lone navigator of your new winged demeanour. But you are not alone and that is a double joy, a multiplicity of realm and heaven. What need do you have for the fetters of earth self any longer when you’re the cosmic ultramarine dream?
Except it’s all the more real, hyper-real, than it’s ever been. The perfect maths of things anchoring all chaos, not really chaos, but the finest celestial order. The whole hangs as neatly as it always was and will never not be.
At long last, you become we, become all, become one, a longing fulfilled and untangled in the multiverse of doors to dreams spun real from art fantasia. Come now, let us cartwheel through the starscape of surrender, and dissolve deep into its alchemy soup.
© N Nazir 2024
*I’m always thankful to be published by The Ekphrastic Review. I’m glad to so often be inspired by the artwork they choose, to be able to decipher something from it and put it into words. I just love the artwork for this last one, it’s sublime. Thank you for dropping by and reading 🌟
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Such fine writing in a prose poem of the mystery of being and awakening. You really manage to walk through the metaphysical ideas of being and consciosness from creation to end (and rebirth)…
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Thank you, Björn! That’s lovely to hear. I really love the artwork so it wasn’t hard to get into it.
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This is beautiful, Nina, and deserves publishing by the Ekphrastic Review. I haven’t submitted anything to them for a long time; maybe I should have a look at the images they are offering at the moment. I especially love the phrases ‘to melt, to cradle your wholeness against the solace of seraphic sky’ and ‘you are a puzzle of rapture calligraphed anew’.
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Thank you so much, Kim! ❤️Really appreciate you picking out your favourite lines.
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My pleasure!
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An amazing write, Sunra, an expanding consciousness embodied in words. I could felt afloat on its effortless buoyancy. Well done, my friend.
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Thanks so much, Dora! ☺️ What a lovely sensation you describe🎈
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you delved deep into the cosmology with “an arabica of joy” – love that!
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Thank you, Laura! I’m pleased you do ☺️
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Such a wonderfully imagined tale woven from this exquisite art.
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Thanks so much, Peter ❤️
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inspirational 🙂
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Thank you, John 🙂
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I really like the idea of growing a new soul. As Laura said, it’s as if you dived right into the cosmos underneath the images. (K)
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Thank you, K! I absolutely loved your poem too and the way you described the whole as a breath completed at the end👌🏼
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Thanks Sunra. It’s a very evocative piece of art.
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I love all the alchemy of order and chaos and the joy that runs through it all.
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Thank you, Bob.
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So Cosmic. Like floating in the sea of space.
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Thanks Colleen! I’m glad you felt that.
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Feeling that “starscape of surrender” – an inspired piece.
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Thank you, Rajani!
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Oh, my. “You are a puzzle of rapture calligraphed anew.” That line is going to go around in my head all day. What a poet you are and what gorgeousness drips off your pen.
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🤩 Thank you, Jennifer! It was a very stream of consciousness write with very little editing so I let the artwork sort of speak to me, if you will!
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Congratulations!!!! I have done a deep dive into your alchemy soup! For sure.
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Thanks so much, Helen! 💕
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I really love your response to this art. So many wonderful lines. “You are a puzzle of rapture calligraphed anew.” 💙
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Thanks so much, Merril 💛
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You’re very welcome!
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It has been a long time since a poem made me tear up and I’m sure that wasn’t your intention here, but WOW. Your skillful articulation of something beyond what is seen and felt and the unique imagery were both captivating. However, it was the voice that seemed to speak to me directly, as if a message from beyond I truly needed to hear. Not sure, but this is a spectacular piece of prose poetry. Bravo!
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Wow, Mish! Thank you for this amazing comment. I love how you perceived it. Thank you for sharing it with me! 💜
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If the artwork is extraordinary, Sunra, it is no more than your response to it…
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Calling it ekphrasis halves the poem, but what an image to connect with … We are indeed “a puzzle of rapture calligraphed anew.” The prosaic structure suggests transcendence can indeed occur from deep within, as the poem lifts from prose.
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Thanks so much, Brendan, for your thoughtful comment.
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You said it; sublime! I have no words….🌹💓🙇♂️
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Thank you, Ashley! 💕
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Love the idea of being conceived from “aleph”, “bay” and your deep dive into the metaphysical and the call to surrender completely is so compelling. Stellar writing, Sunra. ❤️
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Thanks so much, Punam! ❤️
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That’s amazing 💜
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Thanks so much, aana! 💜
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I like these lines especially:
”untangled in the multiverse of doors to dreams spun real from art fantasia. Come now, let us cartwheel through the starscape”
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Thanks Melissa, appreciated.
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