Post by MIRIAM JACOB on Jul 5, 2009 4:59:05 GMT -5
DREAMS AND PRAYERS
Today, the sun steamed into morning,
Having no pity;
We walked a stony path
To find a dream, much bigger than ourselves.
Conceived to be a tattered town’s new hope,
But yet it spoke against the simmering heat,
And birthed a prayer.
God, keep my dreams too high to get
Within the reach of Evil’s net!
Even our Lord was tempted!
And all my poet’s words, sealed in a dim lit cellar,
Who to appeal to? And should I yield to
Easy laughter? A line that’s cheap and loaded?
Or bring the fragrance of the years
God took and slowly healed?
The statue breathed its silent calm,
Too smooth to let the coarser labels stick.
For what we see depends on what we look for,
Not let imagination seize the dimly distant,
But move up close, where purer stone glows
To the shimmering hills.
The prayer seems to arise,
A noble golden bird in flight
As I had once seen you,
Knowing you, too,
Must reach the truth, not through the air-bourne
Dirt- but closer to God, and cleared
And clean, inviting other minds
To share a nobler dream.
© Pauline Griffiths 2009
Today, the sun steamed into morning,
Having no pity;
We walked a stony path
To find a dream, much bigger than ourselves.
Conceived to be a tattered town’s new hope,
But yet it spoke against the simmering heat,
And birthed a prayer.
God, keep my dreams too high to get
Within the reach of Evil’s net!
Even our Lord was tempted!
And all my poet’s words, sealed in a dim lit cellar,
Who to appeal to? And should I yield to
Easy laughter? A line that’s cheap and loaded?
Or bring the fragrance of the years
God took and slowly healed?
The statue breathed its silent calm,
Too smooth to let the coarser labels stick.
For what we see depends on what we look for,
Not let imagination seize the dimly distant,
But move up close, where purer stone glows
To the shimmering hills.
The prayer seems to arise,
A noble golden bird in flight
As I had once seen you,
Knowing you, too,
Must reach the truth, not through the air-bourne
Dirt- but closer to God, and cleared
And clean, inviting other minds
To share a nobler dream.
© Pauline Griffiths 2009