Vision

By Jeff Munnis

Vision, Jeff's second volume of poetry, contains intimate poems and prayers about love, memory, and spirituality. Two series of poems on death and revelation explore both the process and experience of inner transformation.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jeff Munnis
• Release date: Feb 22, 2015
• ISBN: 9780991274246

Jeff Munnis

Jeff Munnis began having mystical experiences of Christ at an early age. He is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ and works with individuals and small groups interested in learning more about meditation, dream work, and spirituality. For more information visit jeffmunnis.com.

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Vision

By Jeff Munnis

Published by Rocket House at Smashwords

© 2014 Jeff Munnis

http://www.jeffmunnis.com

http://www.rockethouse.co

To Stelli

CONTENTS

Glass

Sand Archeology

Origins

Names

Vision

Voyuers 1961

52

Prophecy

First

My Eyes

Meeting God

Radnoti and Guth

Bone-hard

To the Unborn

Red and White

There

Parmenides and Empedocles

Genesis

Jacob 1

Jacob 2

Opposition

Respect

Stones

To Jane Dillenberger

Doubt

Geryon

Messiah

Separation

Fear

Three Denials

Stelli

Brown

Morning

Night

Gravity

Three Angels

Mint

Bone Flight

Blends

Dreams of Death

I

2

3

4

5

revelation(s)

Seek

Failure to remain conscious

Failure to assimilate

No return

Rejection of dominion

Destruction of self-concepts

Identity inseparable from

Truth becomes subjective

Time becomes irrelevant

Emerence of the imaginal realm

Mary

I

II

Prayers

Invocation

Anticipation

It’s no small thing to approach the altar of God.

—Louis Weil

Glass

Sand Archeology

Cold blankets of salt

laminate a white shoreline

The skin cracks and peels

along the hard ripples

of a gray sand spine

Amniotic waves return

Water drops and slides

back into the teeth

of the ocean

Fragile shells dredged up

glitter and roll away

under a purple sky

Beneath the slate surface

salt foams in the moonlight

and the earth’s rotation

throws up the gel bodies of fish

sticky with bitumen

the words imagined

by a dark God

Origins

The point of rest

at the base of the skull

the magnetron of Atlas

the center-point

just above the last vertebrae

The sperm and egg

united after conception

divided and