pples of gold in settings of silver:
beauty demands a moment to savour.
Come, take and eat the food on the salver;
duty delights in loving the Saviour.
Archive for the ‘Poetry’ Category
Such eyes…
all others are sighted stone, old Greeks
made mere memorials, blankly gazing.
But these are light on the water, under trees,
Alive and laughing.
Luke 2.29-32, sometimes called the nunc dimittis from its first two words in Latin, is a beautiful piece of poetry with which Simeon greets the baby Jesus.
A child is divine and children are gods;
Intincted with fire and born of sea foam,
They rise from the seed of heavens and earth
To war against all disputing their rule.
Rest 0
"There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God; for anyone who enters God's rest also rests from his own work, just as God did from his." (Hebrews 9.9-10, NIV)
The story is familiar to many of us. Elijah prays in a mountain cave because he thinks God's covenant is in danger of failing because all of God's faithful people but he have been destroyed. Then he listens for God and is at last rewarded by hearing a whisper (sometimes translated as a "still, small voice").
In the estimation, hear the calculation;
In the definition is the proposition:
Binding minds with knotted wording,
Wrapping, twisting, thought-confining
Let our words be free and fluid,
Not dividing, undefining.
Then our conversation is equivocation
And origination merely duplication.
Elegy 0
Black and scarlet, in the twilight
Were the colours of the creature,
Fluttering, flying now no more.
Drops of rain had crushed its wings, and
Curled them, fading, like the petals
Flowers drop when summer comes.
Where reality is poetry and
Stars are arbiters, where gates of splendour
Open to admit the dawn, and golden
Pillars are the living earth’s foundation,
There I live, in silent exultation.
Tiara 2
Maybe the sun is governor of day
And prince of all his light-sprung satellites,
In bright blue skies, at noon, in golden crown
But darken blue to azure, light to dark
And place that radiance in a window frame
And you will see what I saw Sunday night.
