Every Prophet is a Poet

[Demian]

Every prophet is a poet and poet a prophet-to-be
culled out from the frothy, spiraled foam of jettisoned worlds
like this one, knotted behind a sephirothic veil.
With words emanating out like swords of fire, reaching to heavens
without number and prying into the unseen worlds--
a poet treads harshly the path
that harboured angels left behind long ago...

[ampoule]

Interesting image of angels left behind. I enjoyed reading this.

[blazeofglory]

Every prophet is a poet and poet a prophet-to-be
culled out from the frothy, spiraled foam of jettisoned worlds
like this one, knotted behind a sephirothic veil.
With words emanating out like swords of fire, reaching to heavens
without number and prying into the unseen worlds--
a poet treads harshly the path
that harboured angels left behind long ago...

A poet is not a prophet, but a prophet could be a poet, and a prophet is the one who rises above worldly phenomena. A prophet can see things or see more dimensions of things we ordinarily can not see, or a prophet is the one who bridges two worlds, mundane and super-mundane. He is already on the final rung of the ladder of spirituality, and we are still at the bottom.

A poet has to go far to reach a state of prophet-hood, and prophets can make prophesies, and that they can see things beyond veneers.

A poet is simply an ordinary man and he can not see things beyond a particular dimensions; anybody is capable of writing poems. The difference between a good poet and ordinary one is the former can play with words and the latter can not do so and he can not make his poems complicated. When a poet can not complicate his poems using sentence structured stuffed with big words does not mean he is less prophetic than the one who can.

Unarguably poems are sublime expressions and at times they touch us beyond limits and skilled poets can amaze us with their skill of composition ordinarily we can not do.

However a poet is not closer to prophet-hood than the rest, and even an ordinary man with no poetic disposition can still be a prophet.

Prophets and poets live in domains polar opposite.

[Demian]

When a certain man left our village,
we would oft say that he was mad;
Or possessed by the gods
because his gibberish contained
bits of the unexplained like:
Where the sky meets earth, or
udigested tales of Undagaya and then
wide eyed and covered in blood he
would leap head long into the lake and
chase out the fish with his feverish fires.

[PrinceMyshkin]

Every prophet is a poet and poet a prophet-to-be
culled out from the frothy, spiraled foam of jettisoned worlds
like this one, knotted behind a sephirothic veil.
With words emanating out like swords of fire, reaching to heavens
without number and prying into the unseen worlds--
a poet treads harshly the path
that harboured angels left behind long ago...

And indeed this has the majestic authority of a prophet's voice!

[ampoule]

When a certain man left our village,
we would oft say that he was mad;
Or possessed by the gods
because his gibberish contained
bits of the unexplained like:
Where the sky meets earth, or
udigested tales of Undagaya and then
wide eyed and covered in blood he
would leap head long into the lake and
chase out the fish with his feverish fires.

Is this about one particular man who leaves the village over and over or people leaving in general?
Should it be undigested?
I really like this poem....the ending....

[Demian]

Thank you both for your comments. Ampoule, this is about one man in particular.