ardhe 42

ardhe42 is Seten Tomh's second foray into poetry, continuing his radical exploration of the architectonics of transcendence, free of banality. In these poems one senses a danger that is imminent and electric but even in the black heart of despair the possibility of hope persists, like a lone candle flickering in the night in a window high up, offering to show us the way home should we choose to welcome its bright promise. Seten knows what he is talking about. Ranging from the exalted heights of Tibetan Buddhist mysticism to the money-grubbing mediocrity of the philistine nation, Seten has borne it all; like the lotus on the surface of the sea, he has risen above the mud and mire of the world, and transformed it into an enigmatic diction that is exalted, earnest, and sure, holding up a cold crystalline mirror wherein the sun of realization is reflected in a tongue that is orphic, lucid, and true, charged with archetypes that resonate with a compelling meme. His is not the tired mysticism of the world weary and apathetic, but a robust, passionate, and compassionate declaration of the spiritual potentiality of life itself, freed from the shackles of the cynical rationality, vicious materialism, sham individualism, and fake freedom of a dying culture. Even in its darkest moments, Seten Tomh's verse is redolent with intensity and prophetic of a better day and a higher way. His powerfully magnetic voice breathes promise, verdant with new growth.