My exhuberance over finding a poet who wrote about things that I write about. It just doesn’t happen every day but I wss sort of looking today. I am sure not many people have ever heard of Jones Very but Ralph Waldo Emerson thought very highly of his poetry putting it alongside David’s Psalms from the Bible. This poem struck me IMMEDIATELY. Because of one thing only: I understand the garden of Eden allegory. So when I saw this guy suggest he’d glimpsed Eden, I knew he was talking about Nirvana. Gnosis. Transcendence. Enlightenment! Lots of words that all just mean you know you are God and that God is all there is! Please read this wonderful poem.

The Garden

By Jones Very

I saw the spot where our first parents dwelt;
And yet it wore to me no face of change,
For while amid its fields and groves, I felt
As if I had not sinned, nor thought it strange;
My eye seemed but a part of every sight,
My ear heard music in each sound that rose;
Each sense forever found a new delight,
Such as the spirit’s vision only knows;
Each act some new and ever-varying joy
Did my Father’s love for me prepare;
To dress the spot my ever fresh employ,
And in the glorious whole with Him to share;
No more without the flaming gate to stray,
No more for sin’s dark stain the debt of death to pay.

And I absolutely love that this dude writes the EXACT same style sonnets I do. I mean what are the odds of that? I said earlier on TikTok ‘Shakespeare’ made this style of sonnet famous but he never wrote one as meaningful as this one by Jones Very.