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Incomparable glory

Frederick Kwesi Great Agboletey

GREGORIAN CHANT

Submerge thyself into these timeless chants
Of spiritually rousing and mentally subduing, voices
Of ancient men robed in grey and brown robes
Singing adorations to Master Architect
Be transported through realms of visible
Lifted out of flesh and it’s inhibitions
into a new world of spiritually awakened-

Look beyond thyself
See green mountain pastures,
Pristine ice fields of pure springs
Where purity is just finding expression
Dripping from ice mass of whitest snow
See  light of diaphanous presences
Holy beings in harmonic pose of infinite peace-

Move and be moved by  gentle rhythm
Of timeless motion in motion
Feel  weariness of harried flesh dissolving
re coagulating and becoming human with  spirit of life
Undergo  dissolution of  verminous impositions
Of restless flitting of flights of fancy
pursuing fading shadows-

Be calmed and garbed with a serenity of purpose
In  rising awareness of holy wholesome chant
Timeless expanse of un-tempered beauty;
Wildness when beauty is not tempered with,
Purity that is virtue attained through devotion,
A humbleness of such plainness
It is a chastity of souls cleansed and perspicuous-

Ancient, without definition or reference,
Only defined within its glorious adoration
Expressions of truest joy
Joy of discovery of  things that have always been
In  new light of serenity
Borne gently on  wings of songs
Songs sung in bass D -

Listen, hear  deep resonating chants of opened minds
Closed in  certainty of their joy
In  discovery of  things that have always been
Open your mind’s eye to  angelic choirs
descending in  roiling scent
Of  incense of  sweet sacrament divine,
changing scenarios of holiness removing  fleshly filth-

Messianic presence descends to purify
In  midst of  purified
Feel  roaring fires
Testing  calibre of raw, undisciplined flesh
Fires, mighty flames, that melt gold and make air of straw
Souls bared in  lightning and thunder
Flash floods of fiery redemption, from  self-

Listen to  voices that reverberate
Preceding His Glorious presence
Be encircled with Air charged
Intensities uncoiled in readiness
Even as sated minds dwell in  peace of His presence
Hot coals rolling and scattering fierce ambers unquenchable
resonating bass of  totally committed-

Of simplicity in faith so sure
it is  unimpeachable bulwark of innocence
Against which  wisdom of aged wise slide
These are  voices of rising truth
Of  disembodied soul
In transitional transformation
In whose wake is  Shekinah glory-

In colours of iridescent glory
When God is glorified
Timeless motions of calibrated accordion in harmony
Reverberating resonance of calm descending
Like  dove of  Holy Spirit
A-rising to descend to proclaim his Kingship,
Voices in praise-

Calm assurance
Of things assured,
always were, will ever be
“Jehovah inhabits  praise of his servants”
In this condensed emotions of great wisdom
Divine expression
In this grandiose rank of choral profusion expressive in phonation-

A sudden elevation of  humble to  apogees
Of gloriousness as obedient bask in  glory of Divine Master
Candle lights in  great halls of worship
Beguiling stillness merging with  sonorous chorus
Of grace manifest
When voices rise in praise to worship
Omniscient, One and only-

Galaxies and nebulae
pinpoints of light in a grandeur beyond compare
Infinite gloriousness,
Sing your songs of majestic power beyond compare
Through  black holes into  flaming stars
Of uncharted dimensions in galactic nebulae
“ The heavens are His throne and the earth His footstool”-

Reality that denudes fantasy
In this choral renditions
Rising in secluded corners of quiet places
To gain universal presence
Resonating first sound of creation
Caught in  cusp of  exaltation
“Ye are gods. Know ye not, ye are gods?”

In sanctum sanctorum
Rising with morning mist
Dawning with new day
Sun down with golden rays of sun in final flourish
Rising stars glittering in wide horizon
In quietude of pleasant peace
Angelus is sung-

Chanting psalms
Bearing aplomb loftiness of Divinity
Solemn rendition of utmost glorification
Ave Maria, Christ Messiah, Glory to God
Hallelujah, Gloria Excel sis
Peace on earth to all men
Glory to God in highest-

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