Notes to Poem: Meditations on 71

NOTES TO POEM:
Meditations on 71:
"Shine divine lamplight into a bright morning"

By Peter Y. Chou, WisdomPortal.com

Line in Poem	Literary Sources
The Moving Finger writes and moves on— O falcon who rises from Primordial Water the Sun, alone is ever Lord of riches. O God, be not far from me:	Omar Khayyam Rubaiyat, Verse 71 (1122) Egyptian Book of the Dead, Ch. 71 (1250 BC) Rig Veda, ook 1, 71.9 (circa 1500 B.C.) King David, Psalms 71.12 (1023 BC)
Understand God's indivisible nature— The Real is infinite, beyond all inclusion, from fragrant mountains of eternal now all songs of lands come sounding round me.	Hafiz, The Gift Poem 71 "Get the Blame Straight" (1389) Paul Brunton, Notebooks, Volume 16, Part 4, 2.71 (1988) e.e. cummings, 95 Poems, Poems 71 (1958) Walt Whitman, "Proud Music of the Storm", Line 71 (1891)
The man of God is pure in heart and a king within— awakened one's actions are spontaneous & divine, forsaking desires, reaching goal of peace supreme— Heaven produced the virtue that is in me.	Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ, Chapter 71.15 (1908) Ashtavakra Gita, 18.71 (400 BC) Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 2, Verse 71 (400 BC) Ch'eng Hao, Selected Sayings Section 71 (1085)
Eye cannot see itself, Truth cannot express itself, For prayer means shedding of thoughts. Our medicine is divine love and worship— You are a God, immortal, incorruptible.	Wei Wu Wei, Asked the Awakened, Chapter 71 (1963) Evagrios the Solitary, "On Prayer", Text 71 (399 AD) Marsilio Ficino, On the Soul, Letter 71 (1499) Pythagoras, Golden Verses, Verse 71 (500 BC)
I know the beginnings and the ends of things, enchanted moments when we have vision— a thousand thousands, and ten thousand angels hear the beautiful tinny voices of the trumpets.	Anna Akhmatova, Selected Poems, Poem 71 (1921) A.E., Song and Its Fountains, Page 71 (1932) Book of Enoch, LXXI.8 (circa 105 B.C.-64 B.C.) Kenneth Koch, Collected Poems, Poem 71 (2006)
Waver no more, think only of the Beloved— every object is myself and all is me— Eighth wonderful wonder, midnight sunburst— Shine divine lamplight into a bright morning	Kabir, Songs of Kabir, LXXI (1518) Wei Wu Wei, Open Secret, Chapter 71 (1963) James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, p. 71, lines 14-15 (1939) Rumi, Daylight, Verse 71 (1273)
I woke up, and went out. Not yet dawn— and a good south wind sprung up behind, summer is here, fields want us to walk upright, silence through twilight's mystery made flesh.	Robert Bly, Stealing Sugar, Poem 71 (2013) Coleridge, Rime of the Ancient Mariner Line 71 (1798) Tomas Tranströmer, Selected Poems, Poem 71 (1987) e.e. cummings, Xaipe, Poems 71 (1958)
Last night clouds came from hills to the south, waves rise up & sink again, dreams break & form, live only in the kingdom of suspended wishes— your look that is today my east and west.	Su Tung-p'o, "Eastern Slope" (1081) Rabindranath Tagore, Gitanjali, Verse 71 (1912) Kay Ryan, The Best of It, Poems 71 (1995) Edna St. Vincent Millay, Sonnet 71 (1941)
Love crosses its islands, from grief to grief, in your sweet thoughts— I love you so, Love subjugated me, for she is strong— but to love is firmer than to live.	Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets, Sonnet 71 (1959) William Shakespeare, Sonnets LXXI.6-7 (1616) Hadewijch of Antwerp, "Love's Constancy", 71 (1200) Emily Dickinson, New Poems, Poem 71 (1871)

Meditation Notes to Poem:

This poem was written for my friend Cathy's 71st birthday on August 5, 2022.
For context of sources for the lines, consult my web page On Number 71 to see
how this poem was constructed. Despite the difference in space and time of the
composition of each line, what unites these writers quoted is the number 71.
Writer's words appeared in verse 71, sonnet 71, chapter 71, line 71, or page 71.
The poem was arranged essentially in chronological order from "O falcon who rises from Primordial Water" in Egyptian Book of the Dead, Ch. 71 (1250 B.C.) to
Kay Ryan's's 71st poem "Mirage Oases" from The Best of It (2010).