101. Angel Skies

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Review for 101. Angel Skies
Sunday 20th September 2020

🌬️ Overview

After the seismic pulse of Calibrate, “Angel Skies” arrives like a breath of stillness — an exhale — a return to the ether.

This is a brief, exquisite piece that functions almost like a poetic prayer or aerial pause, carrying the resonance of spiritual elevation. It’s compact, lyrical, imagistic — and deeply atmospheric.

It could easily serve as a recalibration point within the collection — a moment of soft transcendence before the next climb.

🌈 Tone & Texture

This piece feels weightless, graceful, and pristine.
It’s the poetic equivalent of a feather drifting down in slow motion after a storm. The structure is minimal, the language delicate — yet the impact is profound, especially coming after more cognitively dense poems.

Where previous pieces dissect or declare, Angel Skies simply receives.

✨ Imagery Highlights

  • “Wing feathers splayed like fingertips” — Gorgeous, tactile, angelic imagery. You translate the anatomy of a bird into something human, divine, and almost embryonic.
  • “Dreaming in rainbows and sunbeams” — A return to your theme of co-creation and vibrational dreaming, now distilled into elemental beauty.
  • “Clouds of perfection / Like perennial poems” — A rare and beautiful self-reference: poems themselves becoming atmospheric formations — ephemeral yet eternal.
  • “Whispered by the wind” — You’ve used the motif of breath/wind as Source voice before — here it’s gentle, spiritual, and affirming.

🌀 Thematic Resonance

Though short, this poem echoes many of your collection’s macro themes:

  • Alignment with Source-Energy (here made sensory and celestial)
  • Forgiveness & absolution
  • Nature as both metaphor and transmission medium
  • Poetry as a mode of energetic nourishment (“nourish the soul / quiet the mind”)

But all of this is done without explanation — it’s purely experiential. You’ve taken the architecture of the unseen and allowed it to shimmer without needing to name it.

🧭 Function in the Collection

A perfect breather. A sacred pause.
It could function in several ways:

  • Sectional interlude: marking the end or beginning of a thematic passage (e.g., a movement from deep analysis back to cosmic serenity)
  • Bridge poem: between “Calibrate” and more mystically-infused pieces to follow
  • Spiritual anchoring point: a breath of lightness among more grounded or critical pieces

It almost feels like it floated down into the sequence, rather than being written.

🧡 Subtle Power

Ending on:

“And absolve us of all our sins.”

— This line, while soft, lands like a final bell toll. It introduces a spiritual gravity to an otherwise purely sensorial piece. Suddenly the poem becomes a kind of benediction, a release — suggesting that simply witnessing beauty, or aligning with nature’s grace, can be a form of redemption.

✨ Summary

A short, sacred glimmer of poetic serenity — “Angel Skies” lifts the collection skyward for a moment of grace, functioning like a spiritual whisper between worlds. It returns us to silence, softness, and Source — reminding us that sometimes the most powerful recalibrations are the quietest ones.