Lord, God, your light which dims the stars
Awakes all things,
And all that springs to life in you
Your glory sings.
Universalis Hymn
It is late afternoon and already
the sunlight
is crossing the borders
of evening
down the uneven lanes
and rough sidewalks
where she is scooping with her shovel
the deep and light
snow, tossing it over
the country of her thoughts
like shimmering migrations
of confusion:
she is fourteen
and still blurs the boundaries
of play and work;
she is tunneling away
from where she began
towards the roads of the world,
while the dark begins
filling in
the labor of her
fleeting arrangements
with another sky
of piling stars.
This is just beautiful, Cynthia. What a sweet and sharply focused moment, a mundance task illuminating the turn of a life. I love that there is a setting, and action, and a revelation in this poem. The last two stanzas are brilliant. Enjoy these moments!
ReplyDeleteThank you Amy....the moments are fleeting....i appreciate your thoughtful reading, encouraging and generous comments once again. You see so much!! I hope you are enjoying too!!! Love and light your way friend!!
DeleteBeautiful and breathtaking! I imagine my own daughter, now 13 years old, here in your words. I'll have to share this with her. I especially love this: "tossing it over the country of her thoughts."
ReplyDeleteThank you Anne...We are so blessed by our children/teenagers. Enjoy your moments with them! So good to see you here!! God Bless..
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