GENESIS 7........

by **Harry** Tue Aug 04, 2015 9:30 am

Genesis 7

1 And then YHWH said to Noah, "Come
Into the ark, you and in sum
All your household, because I've seen
You're just before Me and have been.

See me too, my Beloved, that I may be
One righteous in this generation, see!
Your act of seeing is the power that
Makes good of evil and makes lean of fat.
I choose creative action from Your eye
And choosing so, I choose the righteous die.
I cast no dice below Fortuna's face,
But lay my fate beneath the gazing mace
That crushes dross and lays the statue bare.
See into being righteous, good and fair.
So there shall be no I-ness in my breast,
No self existing in the east or west,
But only You will be my I's command,
My eye be Yours, and Yours too be my hand.

2 "You shall take with you seven of each,
Of every clean beast, male and peach,
Two each of animals unclean,
One buck and with each one his queen,
3 "Also seven each of birds of air,
Male and female, to keep them there
The species live on all the earth,
Each original for its worth.
4 "In seven days I shall bring rain
In forty days and nights ordain
Destruction of all living on
The earth I've made from mastodon
To sheep and ox and calling crane."

Seven of clean in seven days You teach
To enter in the ark no man can reach
Without Your guidance. Seven pairs of clean
In secret walk the plank and are not seen
Again beneath the faithful course of sun
Until the cleansing water flood is done.
Bring to the secret places of my soul,
The inner temple chamber of my whole,
The fourteen innocent ones in their pairs
To teach their mystic doctrine unawares.
Come enter in my thinking and my being,
And sanctify my seventh sense of seeing,
That from the seven councils' purity
The visions of Your oneness come to me.

5 And Noah did what he was told
By YHWH, both he and his household.
6 Six hundred years was Noah's age
On earth when it came to flood stage.

You breathe out once and earth sprouts living things
That stay to blossom once and reign like kings
And then to perish as You draw Your breath
Once more back to Yourself. The end is death
And dark destruction for both man and beast,
For all things from the greatest to the least.
So You destroy and remake all the earth
As with Your breath all things receive their worth.
Breathe on me too for seven days and then
Let me return to You as must all men.
For forty days the world is bathed in light,
And with the forty alternates the night.
Beloved, I seek the gentle rising of
Your sleepless wonder and returning love.

7 So Noah, with his sons, his wife,
And his sons' wives, went in the ark
Each one went in to save his life
From flood and thunder, rain and dark.
8 Clean animals, and the unclean,
And birds and everything that's seen
Moving on land, 9 went two by two
To Noah in the ark, so few,
Just male and female of each kind
As Ælohim made Noah mind.
10 It happened after seven days
A flood was on the earth in haze.

You told the blessèd Noah what to take
Into the ark, but nowhere do You make
It clear what animals are clean and which
Are not. I think I would have found a glitch
In regulations as I tried to count
The pairs of clean and unclean's right amount.
I thank You that Your guidance right and straight
Has not left ancient man to fortune's fate,
But every prophet knew without the Book
The law of good and evil acts, the look
Of clean and unclean thing. Then let the sound
Of truths that rang in blessèd Noah's bound
Guide me too as I enter in the ark,
With clean and unclean things when I embark.

11 The year six hundred in the days
Of Noah, saw the fountains raise,
The second month, day seventeen,
The deep broke up, and there were seen
The heavenly windows opened 12 till
For forty days and nights rains spill.

Rain on my heart for forty days and nights
To drown all violence and set to rights
The word and flame that guide my wandering way
Along the strange paths of the night and day.
O my Beloved, what brightness is the cloud
That overshadows earth and sea with loud
And pounding thunders! Some may ask a firm
And rocky refuge, I am glad to worm
My way into a rocking, running boat
Before a raging storm, driven to float
At chance and luck it seems from east to west.
Your will, though random motion, is the best.
For all the seeming of the wind and rage
I know Your guidance does not miss the gauge.

13 On one day Noah and his sons,
Shem, Ham, and Japheth, they're the ones,
And Noah's wife, the three sons' wives
Came in the ark to save their lives.
14 They and each beast after its kind,
All cattle in each sort designed,
And every creeping thing that creeps
On earth and to its kindred keeps,
And every bird of every feather
Each of its kind and kind of weather.
15 And they went in the ark by twos
To Noah, all flesh not to lose
The breath of life which is their dues.
16 So those that entered, spouse and male,
Went as commanded, without fail,
By Ælohim, YHWH shut the gaol.

My preaching days are over and no more
Than eight have entered in, and not a score,
Despite my frantic Bible thumping. My
Charisma does not seem to make the sky.
The dumb beasts favour homilies of mine
More than the churchly, even the wild swine.
One chased me as a child once in the wood,
His back not grazing toes where as I could
I grasped and hung on grape vine on the bank
Of one dark algae-covered stream and dank
Weed growth. The wild pig has but little smell.
I wonder, my Beloved, if pigs did well
To enter in the ark, if just one pair.
If so, what did the humans do for air?

17 The flood is on earth forty days.
The waters increase and upraise
The ark to float high over earth
18 The waters increased much in worth
And volume where the ark still floated,
Both safe and sound, fully devoted.
19 The waters rose and rose until
They covered every slumbering hill,
High under heaven. 20 The waters rose
Fifteen arm-lengths then to repose
Upon the mountains that were covered,
On earth no hill left undiscovered.

For forty years times three the wicked waited
Then rain for forty days fell unabated,
And forty days the waters were assuaged,
While forty days on Sinai You engaged
The prophet Moses, Israel wandered long
The wilderness for forty years, no song
Nor meat came on Elijah's lips for those
Long days and nights of forty that he chose
To spend on Horeb, praying there and fasting,
While Nineveh spent forty days contrasting
In revelry before repenting well.
The forties pass four gates before they tell
The secret of dividing grape in forty
For forty saints preoccupied and warty.

21 And all flesh that moved on earth died:
The birds and cattle alongside
The beasts and every creeping thing
That creeps on earth, and man and king.
22 All in whose nostrils was the breath
Of the life spirit, all met death.
23 So He destroyed all living things
On the dry ground, with feet or wings,
Men, cattle, creeping creature, bird,
Were all on earth destroyed, interred.
But only Noah and those who
Were with him in the ark stayed true.
24 While water remained on the land
One hundred fifty days unscanned.

The dry and violent earth of my heart
Needs water pacifying. Slay the part
In me, the beastly, cattly, fowlly lust
That goes its own way when I ought to trust.
Let only that true spirit that entranced
The soul of blessèd Noah and enhanced
The darkness of his journey stay alive
In me. I rise upon the waters, dive
And rise again. My wooden rafters shudder.
A cow, in plaintive mooing, shrinks at udder.
None yet have learned to drink the milk or eat
The richly roasted and the savoury meat.
I ride the fine destructive waves of grace
Until I come at last to see Your face.
GENESIS 7........ Cleardot

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