First o’er the earth the light was poured:
O Lord, this day upon us shine
And fill our souls with light divine
Universalis Hymn
The morning comes
like soft hands
out of my dreaming,
where I wake
twisting words
in flames of possibilities
between the tips
of attention;
becoming the coloring glass
I am looking through
for glimpses of the unfathomable
beauty of You;
holding them up to the limitless,
unapproachable-bright
molting hues
of You.
These small spheres
of words,
like all clacking colors
of marbles
rolling over the edges
of meaning,
into the wells
of the unspeakable,
where
we lower our
myriad
pails,
dipping
into the dark
un-reflecting
there.
This is an Ars Poetica! A Prayerful Ars Poetica -- Love it. Wow. This is heavy and deep. And it makes me smile! Oh, these words, and oh, their myriad layers and levels of meaning. Would it not be easy to say that Silence is the language of holiness? If not for the fact that God gave us the Word, and the Word was with him? To have a love for Christ and a love for language....and to have a friend in it -- Pure Blessing! I'm so happy for your journey. And I'm so happy to share in it! May God's Holy Spirit bless you always with inspiration, motivation, meaning, mystery, and wisdom!
ReplyDeleteThere is so much to speak of and discuss in this piece -- it is so neat to witness this becoming. We'll need to print this out in hard copy -- the tips of attention, the coloring glass, the spheres -- so much! Can't wait to sit with this piece longer -- it deserves many readings!
ReplyDeleteThank you Amy for your loving comments. So thankful for the gift of words and good friends to share them with. Silence bears our sounds and notes and words...may we use them to point to the beauty divine of Him. May the love and light of Christ remain within us....
Delete"Silence bears our sounds and notes and words" -- so insightful - love that. And your prayer for our words to point to God's beautiful Divinity is right on. So thankful...
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