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Exercises in mythic imagination:

Ancient Narrative, Old Master drawings and Modern poems by stefan balan

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“Imagination is a concentrated extract of all the forces of life.”

“Fortunately, in her kindness and patience, Nature has never put the fatal question as to the meaning of their lives into the mouths of most people. and where no one asks, no one needs to answer.”

— Carl Jung

“myths are clues to the spiritual potential of human life, a way to experience the experience of being alive and bring people into a higher level of consciousness. half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts, And the other half contends that they are not facts at all. as a result we have people who consider themselves believers because they accept metaphors as facts, and we have others who classify themselves as atheists because they think religious metaphors are lies.”

— Joseph campbell

requiem

rest me.

rest me.

Rest me.

rest my blurring.

rest my insomnia.

Rest my fever.

Now that I’ve lost mine

give me a new name.

give me your name.

replace

this smudged

oblivion.

give me a face.

wash it.

kiss it

with your forgiveness.

it is your face.

Give me light

heaps of light

a wheatfield of light.

Don’t let me fumble

invisible

in the blindness of others

in my own blindness.

heal me

of my absence.

you are the one who

continues.

You are the bridge

of wet

cobble stones

with a dove

and a morning

on the parapet.

continue me.

i pray to you.

of the infinite things

you can do today

choose to be.

—Stefan balan, november 2024

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