Wonder-woven Episode: Heart’s Harvest
Poems of Beauty and Blessing 31: Vernal Offering
It’s all the robin’s fault, the one who now sings outside my window every morning and evening. He made me write yet another poem about spring, which is a season that always fascinates me with its ability to capture the senses in sheer delight. Vernal Offering The heart hails the hoped-for waning of winter As… Continue reading Poems of Beauty and Blessing 31: Vernal Offering
Wonder-woven Episode: Spring Stirrings
Wonder-woven Episode: Song for Soul-kin
Poems of Beauty and Blessing 30: Two Stones
There are poems you want to write and there are poems that want to be written. This is one of the latter. Two Stones The cock crowed and the rock cried, Denial dying with the dawn Whose downing would see the Life of the World laid dead, Being borne away to burial in a brand… Continue reading Poems of Beauty and Blessing 30: Two Stones
Wonder-woven Episode: Where Wisdom Waits
Poems of Beauty and Blessing 29: Echoes of Emmaus
Again this explores the idea that we are all haunted by something we’ve lost. The disciples on the road to Emmaus wept for Christ, only to find Him with them as they shared a meal. This gospel story is one of my favourites. Echoes of Emmaus Will wandering awaken the weary one Who seeks to… Continue reading Poems of Beauty and Blessing 29: Echoes of Emmaus
Wonder-woven Episode: Be of Good Cheer
Poems of Beauty and Blessing 28: Heart’s Harvest
Another poem. See what you make of it. Heart’s Harvest As land that is let to lie fallow for a time, Its fertility left free to renew its fruitful friendship With wind, rain and sun, answering only to the call of earth, No plough-share shattering the peace of its wild perfection, So will the tranquil… Continue reading Poems of Beauty and Blessing 28: Heart’s Harvest