“A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.” -Percy Bysshe Shelley
Showing posts with label faith. Show all posts
Showing posts with label faith. Show all posts
Sunday, October 20, 2019
Re-cited Rite
I have read the Legends
shared around the world
in so many ways
as I have had Sundays
And took notice
today
Nobody is looking
forward
to the second coming,
a sequel
is too much of the same.
None await a haloed savior
to share a repast
this silver evening
under the Hunters Moon.
Faith, as taught to us,
has burnt the crust
of broken bread,
the wine has overflown
its chalice, insatiable desire
the mortal hands quiver
and become stained clasping
the thorned stem too tight,
the feeling is lost.
Though dutifully,
we cradle the spines gently,
as if History could crumble
in our salty psalms
And the words
on the opposing side
of scritta come through,
like the shape of your body
inside its cloak and robe,
alluding to a language shared
in mythos by Ahmen.
And I find another Sunday
to read seven ways
of looking harder at the structures
and steeples
we have built
in order to live with
introspection and novelty
recited inaudibly in tiny volumes
the atonement we create to
consume us in ritual.
It feels right.
Painting by Ambrosius Benson (1495-1550), 'The Mary Magdalen Reading', c. 1520 in Public Domain.
Saturday, January 21, 2017
Working up to it
We had hopes
And held on
To air
Imagine this, delicately, with
your fingers.
Tell me,
Is your faith strong, rigid,
cold?
When we close our eyes, nowadays,
our metronome is muffled with
backfire.
It is still
So busy so
We try to think
Optimistic, or up,
But that is not doing
Anything
For lift.
We had work to do, we all knew
Sweat
Yet, we hoped it would all get
done.
Painting by Paul Peel [Public domain or Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
Thursday, June 18, 2015
The Hymn of Ewe
Faith is the wool blanket
woven by the flock
who sheepishly sew
contentedly knitting
nestled in envied green knolls
bleating a single string
in wandering white streams
hiding in the herded folds
matted in the material of dreams
tucking in their ears
softly in numbers
Image of painting 'Strayed Sheep' 1852, by William Holman Hunt [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
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