Monday, July 2, 2012

Wildfire of Hope


Hope takes us entirely out of this world while we remain bodily in the midst of it. Our minds retain their clear views of what is good in creatures. Our wills remain chaste and solitary in the midst of all created beauty...
                                                                      Thomas Merton   No Man Is An Island





                                    The black raspberries are beading
                                    the edges of the fields

                                    with dark clusters
                                    presenting themselves

                                    for the taking
                                    into our hands and mouths

                                    staining our soft flesh
                                    into shades of morning

                                    dropping between lucent leaves
                                    and all the too heavy

                                    falling into the shapeless
                                    loss of summer sweetness

                                    that lie in the cool and dark
                                    beneath the light skimming

                                    like swallows
                                    over the grasses of prayer


                                    and the wildfire of hope 
                                    within the scattering seeds.







2 comments:

  1. Oh Cynthia, you have such a way with words! Love this! We have blackberries in our garden which are just coming ripe so I could so relate to this poem. I love this: like swallows over the grasses of prayer

    Thank you for sharing your gift! You have brought peace and beauty to my hectic day!

    ReplyDelete
  2. Thank you Anne for your kind reply and gifts of peace and beauty you bring to my day!! Enjoy the delicious blackberries in your garden! God Bless You....

    ReplyDelete