The phrase "a meditation upon" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a reflective or contemplative piece of writing or thought on a particular subject.
Example: "The author presents a meditation upon the nature of existence, exploring deep philosophical questions."
Alternatives: "a reflection on" or "a contemplation of".
It has no chronology, and is a meditation upon, rather than a narrative of, this life among lives.
The cinematic dark/light polarity of the cellar and the lighted rooms above suggested to me a meditation upon human life's arrangement above a great precipice of alternating states: creativity and ignorance, order and confusion, love and indifference..
When Mr. McBurney first began listening to the Shostakovich 15th Quartet, he said he thought each movement was "a meditation upon death," but after a while, he said, "I began to think it was more about leave-taking".
The tears he provoked as a child grow in this saga into a meditation upon "the tears of things"; the sorrow of one family becomes the sorrow of us all.
For this, I would like to offer Górecki's Symphony No 3, Symphony of Sorrowful Songs, perhaps not as the greatest piece of music from the last century, but as a meditation upon the value of all life, and the imperative that we restrain ourselves from making the same grave errors in the coming centuries that we made in the last.
As early as L'Après-midi d'un faune (1876; "The Afternoon of a Faun"; Eng. trans. L'Après-midi d'un faune; later interpreted musically by Claude Debussy), he concentrated on multiplicity of meaning: the poem is simultaneously the dream evocation of the faun's erotic desires and a meditation upon the creative impulse at an abstract level.
In another sense, they remind of us of the strange status of fiction, which is, of course, merely a notation, a variation and a meditation dependent upon and continuous from facts.
As realized, impeccably, by the director Les Waters and a talented team of actors and designers for the Yale Repertory Theater, Ms. Ruhl's quirky contemporary meditation on a much-meditated-upon story has some of the subliminal potency of music, the head-scratching surprise of a modernist poem and the cockeyed allure of a surrealist painting.
A keen thinker who wrote works in philosophy, theology, mysticism, and scriptural exegesis, he attempted a wide-ranging synthesis of approaches to Islamic thought and argued for the necessity of the method of understanding reality through a mixture of logical reasoning, spiritual inspiration, and a deep meditation upon the key scriptural sources of the Twelver Shi'i tradition in Islam.
Writing in The Times, Michiko Kakutani called the novel "a brilliant meditation upon the post-9/11 world," where "fear is a valued commodity for terrorists and governments alike".
Performed between the biblical readings in the mass, each sequence is a free meditation upon scriptural themes, often drawing upon and synthesizing disparate texts.
