~~~Emily Dickinson Poem-A-Day "So has a Daisy vanished" 28/1775

Version 1
So has a Daisy vanished
From the fields today -
So tiptoed many a slipper
To Paradise away -
Oozed so, in crimson bubbles
Day's departing tide -
Blooming - tripping - flowing -
Are ye then with God?

[edit] Version 2
So has a Daisy vanished
From the fields today —
So tiptoed many a slipper
To Paradise away —

Oozed so in crimson bubbles
Day's departing tide —
Blooming — tripping — flowing
Are ye then with God

Good morning fans of Emily Dickinson! Today I have prepondered this poem's two versions. In "So Has A Daisy Vanished" Emily is philosophizing metaphysically upon a daisy's death.

As fact like as a daisy dies within our view of a field or field of view. We are alive and yet within our view is all this death and dying. But it is part of nature even though we cannot always accept in our minds this kind of thought.

So has a Daisy vanished
From the fields today -
So tiptoed many a slipper
To Paradise away -
Oozed so, in crimson bubbles
Day's departing tide -
Blooming - tripping - flowing -
Are ye then with God?

The poem is not long, only having 8 small lines, yet there is so much passing through this poem, so much vision, that it is much larger than it's appearance. It is "oozing" consciousness.

"So tiptoed many a slipper" is Emily referring to a lady's slipper flower? Or is Emily discussing every human being or every living thing? A flower or a person, or both, deliberately considered? Such simplicity, yet such depth!

So we all go to "Paradise away", as our blood "oozed so" in these "crimson bubbles" or life which is viewed upon the surface of the ocean at sunset. Emily may have viewed this image, caught her eye and she wanted to write about it, and wrote a poem.

The "Day's departing tide" can refer to life itself as it is "blooming", "tripping" and "flowing" all very alive going to a place like the daisy soon to be removed from the alive "field".

Emily's perrenial question we all ask ourselves "are we right with God" or as Emily says "Are ye then with God" the way someone in the 1800's would have asked the same question.

Truly a remarkable poem, with much philosophic pondering and enlightened vision of the natural world as it pertains to the here and now living in the world, alive, only an ocean away from eternity and what secrets will be revealed then, when we have "crossed over" from the otherside of life.

Chiccoreal's back! To make a Take; an understanding of "So Has A Daisy Vanished"
(sung to "I'll Give You a Daisy A Day Dear")


Life is Like A Bubbling Ocean
Clean tide at dusk
waiting to take us
like the daisy of the field
unknowingly
succumbs
as well all will
eventually
to know
that one day
young or old
one day
our flowing tide
of Life!
will go
back to
our Maker!
return via
the circle route
sooner or later
be prayed up with
light rays of Love
Therefore
Be Right With God
Your Maker
Whomever that May Be
To You
To Emily
It Definitely Was God
her time in
her Poetic Visions
and Philosophic
Pondering
Of Deep Understanding
Emily!
How You Love Red
How You Love to Tiptoe
How You Love Life!
Emily!!!
And Of All This
That Is
And Is not
And Of All That we can actually
Grasp
Even though
We do not as yet Fully GRasp
This Something Called Life
In All Her Majesty
Something we cannot ever
truly
Hold Unto
WE cannot grasp
the MAGNITUDE
the MAGNIFICIENCE
the ESSENCE of LIfe
and ABSENCE of Death
Until that time
As we know
all our prayers
all your prayers
cover the multitudes
of multi-tides
Until that day comes
and my daisy dies
We're all going Home
One day soon
We are Resplendent
Made Complete
When we are Completed!

jj

image courtesy of free google images;

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.thomaslaupstad.com/blog/pictures/red_sun_disappearing_800.jpg&imgrefurl=http://blog.thomaslaupstad.com/2007/08/28/photo-of-a-red-sunset-where-the-sun-disappears-in-the-ocean/&usg=__-wHjvTi1fbdlyjPYxKLbjEyWUzA=&h=533&w=800&sz=107&hl=en&start=4&sig2=X_Ncb0iZJZ5QyRdvspdvRg&itbs=1&tbnid=yJIGva68bOYNdM:&tbnh=95&tbnw=143&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dred%2Bsunset%2Bon%2Bthe%2Bocean%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG%26gbv%3D2%26tbs%3Disch:1&ei=2kVhTJisFoKDngeO-53NAQ

Thank-you!